Cornish Chough Serpentine

Brewed by Cornish Chough
Style: Bitter
Helston, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned at the Ipswich Beer Festival 2004, gravity dispense. I had a sip or two of chris_o’s sample of this beer at the festival, and found his rating to be quite accurate. This organic dark ale is not a typical best bitter, more of a cross between a bitter and a mild, like chris_o says.

Excellent aroma, but that is all, this is an extremely weak bodied ale and no flavour as a result.

9th July 2008. One year past it’s BBE date. Watery palate. No bitterness but a sour dry finish. Brown in colour but not picking any malt up from this. Another weird beer from this brewery.

bottle. Hazy brown colour, large beige head. Malty nose. Light-bodied, mild in flavour. Shy Malty base with some flavours of roasetd malt. Rather dry mouthfeel with good aromatic hops. In some ways it reminds me of a Dry Stout. Not spctacular but rather nice.

Cask at GBBF08. Cloudy dark brown colour. Stable tan head. Mild flavour, some maltiness, slightly watery. Very low bitterness.

brown coloured ale,with a light malt and little malt roast, paisley beer festival 2006

Cask conditioned at The Dun Cow Winter Beer Fest ’07. Reddish amber with a white head. Not best described as a bitter, more crossing over to an Irish red Ale for me. Smooth and creamy with hints of sweetness initially. A fleshy fruitiness with a hoppy bitter finish. There is a lemony tartness at the end, quite quenching and full.

Bottle conditioned. Slim and soon gone white head on a murky reddish brown body. Malty aroma. Sweet and roasted malt taste with a light bitter finish. Medium bodied, quite dry. Not bad, but not a bitter.

Veyr nice, the colour is nice and gives a little idea of a cinnamon alike beer, nce bubbling head, not really bitter.

Cask Stillage at the Howcroft Inn, Bolton 12/10/2001 Amber red coloured with some fruit flavour. Dry wheaty finish.