Coach House Postlethwaites

Brewed by Coach House
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Warrington, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask@lychgatetavern, wolverhampton. Amber beer with small head and good lacing. Aroma of mild hops. Taste is a little bit of hops, bready, malts and a touch nutty. Average beer.

Served on cask at the Sussex Arms, Twickenham Green into an English half pint jug (Jan ’12). A little background, this beer was brewed as a tribute to the great English actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died in January 2011 born in Warrington home of the Coach House brewery. Poured to a mid golden/amber colour with a small white head that held up fairly well through drinking. A floral, hoppy, grassy aroma attacks the nose - good all round sense attack! Quite a dry and hoppy beer, less flowery in taste than aroma but still a little floral flavour in there. Also a sweet and light malted flavour. Mouthfeel is adequate, not full bodied, not thin - just right, dry and bitter in the aftertaste, perhaps more than the floral/hop aroma and taste would suggest. Overall - a decent tribute to a favourite actor of mine!

Cask at Bon Accord, Glasgow (14 Jan 12) - pours hazy golden with a slighlty hoppy aroma, very smooth and sweetish and a pleasure to drink

Cask @ 3 Judges. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma is slightly hoppy, and slightly malty. Very subtle, but at the same time not watery. Hints of glue. Very sessionable.

Cask@Oliver Twist. Reddish-copper brown, good off-white head. Sweetish flowery hoppy nose. A bit strange hop profile, woody-grassy, a bit out of balance. Long hoppy aftertaste. Extra point to Pete Postlethwaite, cool actor!

Cask@Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Mediumsized off-white head. Caramel and flowery hops, overall sweetish, aroma. Flavour is flowery hoppy, slightly leathery. Long hoppy aftertaste. Smooth and easy to drink.

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Amber colour with a firm white foam. Sweet aroma of toffee, butter and vanilla with subtle grassy hops. Flavour starts malty sweet of white chocolate, butter and toffee with strong aftertaste of grass, salt and resin.

UPDATED: AUG 17, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Smithfield Hotel, Manchester 13/01/2002 Golden coloured with some sour fruit aroma. Bitter. Hop finish. 2. Cask Stillage at the Memorial Hall, Northwich 21/09/2002 Godlen coloured and slightly sweet on the palate. Malty with a warming finish. 3. Cask Handpump at the Head Of Steam, Liverpool 30/08/2008 Fruit and malt aromas. Golden coloured and fruity with some alcohol present. Sour with a little dryness in a crisp and bitter finish.

Orange-brown with thin white head. Leafy, grassy aroma with hints of tobacco. The flavor is dry and grassy. Tastes a bit like eating fresh leaves. Quite a strange bitter with a very complex name.

Sampled cask conditioned. Copper coloured. Fruity aroma. Medium bodied, rather sweet. Grassy hop aroma, malty, bitter salty finish. A beer you will not be able to pronounce until you’ve had several pints of it.