Castle Eden Ale

InBev UK
Formerly brewed at Camerons
Style: Bitter
Luton, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle, from Rhythm & Booze in Brigg. Amber gold, thin white head and moderate condition. Pleasant mix of sweet caramel and earthy hoppiness in the nose with some background orangy citrus notes. Quite sweet in the mouth with the citrus and caramel dominating but with a very faint suggestion of phenols. Sweet finish with little of the hops apparent in the nose returning to balance it out.

500ml can poured a pale amber color with a big white creamy head that settled with some decent lacing. Aroma is grainy with some hops. Taste is light malty sweet with an agressive hop bitterness. A decent bitter with a light to medium body and moderate carbonation.

First tasted this in the Bar Point, Paisley in May 1989. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thick white head. Strange metallic note in the short aroma. Creamy but thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts deliver a fiery digestive malt base with tart redcurrant fruit. Really strong metallic flavour from the tart hop resins in the long aftertaste. Almost smokey nicotine flavour from the dry tart finish. Struggle with this for a session as the astringency builds up in the mouth, drying you out.

Cask conditioned at Cockney Pub, Århus
Copper color, poor head. It has a light apple aroma. Quite watery mouthfeel, with a little caramel taste and ordinary to sub-ordinary bitterness, still with a touch of apples. It reminds me the apple touch from homebrewing kits. Easy.

Cask at Cockney Pub, Århus. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with citrusy notes of hops. The flavor is sweet malty with primary notes of citrus, but also light notes of metal, leading to a dry bitter finish.

Cockney Pub, Aarhus 110408 Cask/Real ale Malty and hoppy in aroma and taste. Balanced bitterness

Cast at Cockney Pub, Århus. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. DArk yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Slightly grassy. Light bitter flavor. herbal. Moderate bitter average finish. Oily palate.

From cask at Charlies, as Camerons castle eden ale. Pours clear and golden orange with a little off-white head. Light fruity and caramel malt. Flavour is light fruity with a solid acidic edge. Ends with a mild fruity note.

Absolutely fabulous. Suited my palate to a tee. All my favourites were in the mouth. Butter, fudge, molasses. Dry finish. Very creamy/oily palate. Extremely drinkable indeed.

500ml bottle. Clear copper colour with no head. Aroma is sweet - caramel, vanilla and maybe a hint of oranges. Tangy flavour with sweet malt balancing the hops. Rather too flat for my liking and somewhat bland. Not as good as the old cask stuff I remember drinking in Cambridge in the 1990s.

Bottle. Clear copper, thin white head. Nose caramel, biscuity malt. sweetish, slightly tannic flavour, some soft malt. finish dry and moderately bitter. not bad.