Carn Brea One And All

Brewed by Hepworth
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Horsham, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle. Bronze beer with a good head. The aroma is lightly fruity and dry, and the flavour is nicely dry and bitter with a fruity tinge at the finish. Overall an OK lightly bitter beer.

Clear 500ml bottle, best before May 2009, drank late March 2009. Poured into a pint sleeve glass. Tangarine/light amber in colour, slight haze, but not cloudy, with a well formed foaming head which has an off-white hue to it. Sweetish aroma, flowers and toffee, some hops too. Refreshing, crisp and with a citrus tang. Malted barley and malted wheat are used in the brew. Hoppy and malty in equal strenghts, very drinkable. The 5.2% is well hidden but is obviously there in the background. This isn’t a rich creamy pint, but it isn’t watery or thin either, just about right. It claims to be ’The Supreme Champion Bottled Beer in the UK 2006’. Well I don’t think it is that good, but certainly worth trying.

From the Bottle at Chris O’s, GBBF Week 09/08/2008 Carbonation. Amber coloured hoppy and fruity with a little bitterness in a crisp and dry malt finish.

Dark amber gold with fluffy off white head. Not great but a decent bitter. Hops, tea, horlicks, oatmeal, malts. Light bitterness. So so but certainly drinkable.

Clear bottle from B+M. Immediately distrustful of any beer so keen to trumpet about the awards it’s won, but this is pretty good. Pours bronze with a fine slender head clinging creamily to the glass. Inviting malt and hop aroma mingling Darjeeling, dandelion, candied fruit, orange peel, Twiglet and a handful of nuts for good measure. Silky low fizz fullness, soapy licks, robust nutty malt balanced with tea, barrel, orange and a dab of grapefruit. Good bitter linger with hops, tea, vanilla. Like a real-er version of pasteurised Shep Neame. Hops, malt, yeast. Uncomplicated, unspolied, really decent bitter.

500ml bottle - pours orange/gold, light white head. Hoppy aroma, and taste is straight-up hops/grass and bitterness. Malt notes tend to stay in the background. Great change of pace from many english ales, and I can imagine this would be intriguing on tap. As it is, it’s a fairly straightforward, hoppy English ale. It’s not bad, but it’s not all that memorable.

Blackpool - Hollies Hotel - bottle. Tasted as ’Carn Brea’ Brewerys ’Wobbly Parrot. Carn Brea brewery shut down years ago, however this bottle of ’One and All’ e had been relabelled using one of ’Carn Brea’s’ ’ Wobbly Parrot’ labels on top of the ’Ring o Bells - One and All’ one - strange. However it was superb. Very easily drunk. Sweet start and bitter at end of mouth. Would certainly have again

Massive aroma of hop as the bottle is opened and poured. Hop flavour is retained in the glass with more maltiness coming through. Taste is quite dry and bitter with some floral backnotes. An excellent beer, a shame that it is difficult to come by.

Bottled filtered, 500ml from B&M, Southport. Brownish amber with slight head. Hard earthy malt, a little fungal in flavour, doughy, some fruitiness with a basic, vegetal hop note. Some bitterness. mine could have been old, no visible date code and Ring o Bells on the labelling along with notes about the Pirates Trust, it was from a cheapo shop.

Bottle, 5.2%. OK fruity aroma. Clear amber colour. OK fruity flavour. Hint of grain in the finish.

Bottled@Chris O Post GBBF Tasting. Amber colour, mediumsized creamy white head. Aroma is hops, harsh grass and some earth. Flavour is malts, some harsh hops and a bit harsh metallicness in the finish.