Chiltern Beechwood Bitter

Brewed by Chiltern
Style: Bitter
Aylesbury, England

Serve in English pint

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Gravity Cask @ Reading Beer Festival 07. Good hop nose and nice malty taste. Well balanced. I really enjoyed this.

Carbonation levels are usually low and head seldom lasts beyond half way. Distinctive combination of flavours. Personally, I like it. Not everyone does.

Cask at the White Horse 40 from 40 Festival, 2nd May 2010. Classic copper bitter colour with a lacy white head. Very strong butter toffee nose and initial taste but not the slickness of diacetyl. Definitely nutty with a hint of fruitiness. Not bad and rather different from other ales. I think that if this was local beer it would definitely be seen as an acquired taste.

Cask conditioned at Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Dark amber with white head. Initially sweet malty with a nutty, fruity tone, then there is a noticeable leafy hop to add a good balance of flavour. Good flavoursome bitter.

Cask conditioned handpump Malt Shovel Northampton A mid brown coloured beer with a whitish head. The aroma is thin with just a hint of dry fruitiness. The taste has good fruit with nice licorice notes and berries. There is a hint of acidity which is strange but reasonably appealing. It also has vinuous notes. Tasty and with odd characteristics for a beer of its strength.

Cask Stillage at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 08/08/2008 Pale aroma. Golden bronze coloured hoppy and a little fruity with a crisp and bitter slight roast finish.

[Gravity cask at Chiltern brewery shop] Amber-brown with small white head. Earthy and woody, lots of crisp autumn leaves, hints of fruit and sulphur. Some bitterness in finish. OK bitter.

Cask at Woking beer festival. A good deep brown colour with a thin white thin head. Good hop aroma with a hint of fruit. Lovely biiter aftertaste, a soild round session bitter.

Cask (gravity) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear light to medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, rubber - gummy burnt. Flavor is moderate sweet and light heavy malt bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (080808)

Cask at GBBF08. Almost clear copper colour. OK hop flavour, teaish and slightly spicy. Good maltiness, too.

Cask@GBBF2008. Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruits, hops, some nectar and wood. Flavour is caramel, wood and finish is grassy and quite dry.