Byatt’s XXV

Brewed by Byatt’s
Style: English Strong Ale
Coventry, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Bottle. Bronze and lively upon opening. Poured with a medium head. Spicy flavour dominates and liners for some time. Hops are in the background. One worth trying.

330ml bottle split with Octo after work, watching the embarrassing shambles that was the Jubilee concert. Here’s a beer in commemoration of an historical event that actually meant something. Dusky bronze with fine beige collar. Good tangy aroma that’s got me interested straight away; orange barley sweets, Campino, booze at the bottom of a trifle, orange liqueur, fig stickiness. Doesn’t disappoint with a finely balanced flavour in the Fuller’s Vintage vein; orange jelly with a slug of cointreau, slight floweriness and peach, robust hop bitterness, well-packed malts with some US IPA-like sweetness and a touch of husk. Scoop of Bennett, launch of Houchen, bobble of Gary Mabbut’s knee. Slightly hot and bitter- would improve with time, but good enough right now.