Caffreys

Brewed by Tadcaster (MolsonCoors)
Style: Bitter
Tadcaster, England

Serve in English pint

Can. Copper clear with a 2 cm white creamy head that stays on forever. Smells of yeast, flowers and sweet malts. Taste is extremely watery and uninteresting. Don’t find any taste at all really. Some bitterness in finish but all in all it is dominated by the watery feel.

440 ml can from LCBO. Has a nice cascading pour that settles to a clear, deep golden body with a creamy nitro head. Weak aroma of stale grains and grass. Taste is quite watery with some grains and mild herbal bitterness. Body is on the thin side but does have a pleasant creamy mouthfeel. Pretty underwhelming.

440ml nitrocan at 4%. Pours orange with a large nitro head. Aroma is sweet and soapy caramel. Taste is nothing, a tiny bit of soapy malt. Flat as hell.

Can from the Coop in Cheriton on way home on a Friday night. Blimey it’s been a bit of time since I’ve had this beer. And a bit of time since I’ve had a widget can of beer too. I used to drink these all the time, Boddingtons, Guinness, Guinness Bitter, stuff I can’t even remember. Boy that was all 20 years ago. Where did the time go? Clear pale brown colour with a thick cream head. Sickly caramel malt aroma. Not attractive at all. My god, this is terrible. I mean really just laughable. I used to like this? I mean I would drink Caffreys in a pub in Liverpool a couple of times. That aroma is pathetic it really is. Then a kind of unbrewed out syrupy caramel malt in the mouth. No hops at all of course. Quite one of the most pathetic beers I think I’ve ever had. And what makes it worse is that there are no faults in terms of diacetyl, skunking or anything else, this beer is actually supposed to TASTE like this!! My god. I feel sorry for the quality control who have to drink this everyday. Poor bastards. Shocking. Nope, I can’t even finish the 440ml can. That is a drain pour.

A very beautiful 50-50 barley/wheat ale. Especially enjoyable in the summer. Rather bland and straight. It doesn’t aim to excite: it aims to be easy. It goes down easily and has a few good surprises for the beer-lover who doesn’t adore the bitter or the hops.

Golden color with foamy head. soft caramel aroma, light bitterness. Flat carbonation

(draught) hazy golden-amber colour with a creamy off-white head. aroma of melted butter and brown sugar, with notes of caramel and light grain. flavour is the same, lots of sweet confectionary, slightly metallic and with big notes of marzipan in the finish. light-bodied witth smooth carbonation.

Tasted 2011-01-08. Canned with widget. Pours clear, golden with creamy, off-white head. Breadish aroma. No hops present. Completely flat. No off flavours. Sweet. Boring.