Cheddar Bitter Bully

Brewed by Cheddar
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Cheddar, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask conditioned at Minehead Beer Fest ’11. Gold with white head. Quite thinnish on the palate, a light maltiness, a touch grainy, moving to a flowery hop with a pleasant dry finnish. Reasonable.

Bottle. Golden with a white foam. Aromas are apple with caramel and herbal notes. Yeasty with lemon and trace honey. Flavours are cereal and caramel with grassy, floral notes and a nutty, gentle hop finish. A decent lager-like brew.

It’s rare to get this much hoppy flavour from an IPA without having to really ramp up the alcohol. Leaves other IPAs, like Bengal Lancer, in the shade.

500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. A pale gold and delightfully effervescent session bitter with delicate hops - flowery, slightly soapy, and sometimes powdery, but mostly engaging and refreshing. This is a light and refreshing beer with great conditioning. Nice.

Bottle. Golden beer with a strong head. The aroma is floral and hopped, and the flavour is bitter with a toffee caramel feel. Overall a nice bitter beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle conditioned at 4%. Pours a lovely golden colour with a clear thin head. Plenty of citrus especially orange in the aroma, the taste is also fruity with light malts and a dry bitter finish.

500ml bottle. Poured a clear, sparkling golden orange with a lasting one finger foamy-creamy white head with good retention & a fair lace. Lovely bright aromatic hop profile. Zippy lemon citrus and tangerine aromas with a pale malt & floral hop sweetness. Light to medium body, firm on the palate, medium dry carbonation. Finishes with a dry, floral, pithy lemon bitterness. Dryer & less juicy on the tongue but nicely hopped nevertheless. Good bitterness. Bit too much carbonation initially but settles nicely. Well conditioned.

Cask ,The Crown, Nuneaton. Straw with a generous white foam. Lovely stemmy green hop, grapefruit and mango aroma. Good stewed greenhouse and grapefruit notes softened with a lingering vaniila maltiness; some white grape and lychee. Perfumed and lovely.

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

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

On gravity at the Barley Mow, Dings, Bristol 18/09/10. Clear gold with a decent white head. Grapefruit hop aroma with a suggestion of pine. Sweetish, slightly creamy, malt flavour with plenty more grapefruit and decent dry finish. Good to see Cheddar using plenty of hops.