Church End Arthur’s Wit

Brewed by Church End
Style: English Strong Ale
Nuneaton, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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Cask Conditioned at Harbury Beer Festival ’05. Pale gold beer, slight head. Full flavoured big bitter, pleanty of late hops with an orange peel note and a lightly roasted but malty base. Quite similar to Duvel in a way, alcohol kick and tarty hops. A well presented big beer.

Bottle that Barry picked up at SH Jones, Bicester, Oxon, Saturday 29th October 2011, cheers Barry. Before opening I wrongly assumed that the ’wit’ in the title of this beer was suggesting that this would be a wheat beer but very soon after pouring I realised that this was not the case. Pours gold with a slight haze. This is quite sweet initially and whilst it is also reasonably strong to be fair the alcohol is rather well hidden, smooth easy drinking but hardly a beer to excite the senses. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov12 3.2

500ml bottle. Pours golden with no head. Aroma is really sweet smelling, hint of stewed apples and alcohol. Sweet apples all round, low bitter finish.

Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium orange color with a small average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, orange, spicy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20100119]

Cask at Lord Nelson, København, Denmark.
Hazy golden colour with no head. Apples, yeast and mild hops in aroma. Fruity hoppy flavour with apples and malt. Flat and thin.

Cloudy orange with a small white head. Fruty aroma with winegum. Sweet winegum and rubber flavour

UPDATED: JAN 19, 2010 Bottle 50 cl. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a white head. Fruity, citrusy nose. Rather full body, extremely sweet fruit - almost sugary - bonbonish, no real bitterness. At least better than the terrible infected cask version I had a while ago. 190110 Cask. Pours a hazy golden with a small, off-white head. Aroma of fruit, phenols and yeast. Medium body, completely flat, notes of fruit, phenols, yeast and metal. Very unclean. Some alcohol in the finish. Clearly over the top. 4/2/5/2/11= 2.4 250809

Cask @ Lord Nelson. Clody golden, short head. Fruity sweetish bit malty aroma. Thin mouthfeel. Sweet fruity and malty caramel flavour.

Cask at Lord Nelson. Cloudy golden - white head. Wheaty, fruity, sulfor, orange, tobacco, ashes, light watery body, light banana, light flowery. Plain.

Cask at Lord Nelson. High white lasting creamy head. Hazy yellow body. Weak oranges lemon aroma. Flat metallic sour watery flavor with a bit of fruit. Low carbonation. Short aftertaste.

At Lord Nelson.Hazy golden colour with medium white head.Aroma of fruits and hops,slight note of banana and flowers,sweet fresh finish.