Caledonian Mexican Bandit

Brewed by Caledonian (Heineken UK)
Style: Bitter
Edinburgh, Scotland

Serve in English pint

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear light to medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity flowers, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, flowers, soap, tequila ! Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, fresh. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100803]

Cask @ Ship Tavern, Holborn WC2. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish fruity lime aroma. Fruity malty lime flavor with some weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty lime finish.

Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2010 Fruity aroma. Golden coloured smooth on the palate hoppy and fruity with a lime flavour. A hint of spice in a malt finish.

6th August 2010. GBBF.
Hazy gold beer with no head. Light semi dry palate. Sweetish lime over and even malt base. That’s about it but it’s drinkable and at least they have tried something off the beaten track.

Cask@GBBF2010. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is spices, "fairy" dishwashing fluids, some earth and mild herbs. Flavour is rather similar with quite strong citrusfruity notes.

humle, hyldeblomst,lime citron UD:gylden klar Skum:hvidt luftig Langhold rolig E.smag sød:moderat Bitter Moderat Krop:let til mdeium For: vandede Brus: flad cask gbbf10 dejlig frisk

Cask (handpump) at the Great British Beer Festival, Day 4 on 6 August 2010. Braced myself for the blast of diacetyl that has been present in virtually all Caledonian beers I’ve tried in recent times. Wonder of wonders, it wasn’t there. A good start. Things went rather downhill from there though. The aroma is quite grainy with the lime also coming through strongly. Not a winning combination in my book. The taste? Well it tasted like - lager & lime. Which I guess is what they were aiming for. If I wanted a lager & lime I’d order a lager and lime. If I wanted a pissy Mexican bottled beer with a wedge of lime stuffed in the neck, I’d order one. As it happens I don’t want either because I don’t like them. Consequently I didn’t like this too much either. But I guess I’m not really in the target market. Not downright offensive but not to my taste. Not really a Bitter in any recognized sense but it’s tough to know where to put this style-wise.

UPDATED: JUL 19, 2010 Cask @ The Station Bar. Sour grassy ginger aroma. Golden brown colour. Grassy, straw ginger lime flavour. Interesting, quite unusual bitter, goes down smoothly.

Cask @ Counting House, JDW. Clear dark golden colour, off-white head. Aroma is light malted, lime, fruits. Flavour is slightly malty, light sour, lime. Easy drinkable, a bit light bodied.

Cask at SRAF 2010 ... copper ... sulpherous eggy toffee nose ... soft dry musty toffee fruits ... light bitter ... little ginger.