Conwy Welsh Pride / Balchder Cymru

Brewed by Conwy
Style: Bitter
Conwy, Gwynedd, Wales

Serve in English pint

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A Sim rate (on tap at Royal Oak Hotel, Betws-y-Coed): Smells hoppy, malty and a bit like dish detergent. Hoppy flavour, slightly watery. No finish. Very watery palate. No head.

4th April 2010 was the date this bottle conditioned beer had to be drank by. It was opened and reviewed on 24th March, two weeks before. Poured carefully into an ’Old Speckled Hen’ vase shaped pint glass. Clear light amber body with a good, large bubbled, white head on top. Sadly the head fell away to leave just a collar and a few wisps. Sweetish hoppy aroma, flowery and semi-citrus at the same time. Tangy and well carbonated, almost fizzy in the mouth. The beer (according to the label) contains Barley, Wheat and Gluten, as allergy advice. It also claims all their bottled beers are vegetarian. I liked its sharpness and the bitter aftertaste as the mouth dried, which left a nutmeg/corriander feel between gulps. Not bad at all!

Bottle. Cloudy golden beer with a strong head. The aroma is bitter and caramel hopped, and the flavour is bitter with a roasted body. Overall a nice bitter but quite plain. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Cask. Deep golden colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel and crystal malts with some slight zesty and fruity notes. Flavour is quite similar as for the maltyness, but also has some slight herbal notes and nice grassy and floral bitterness. Pleasant.

Hazyish golden body, white head. Aroma of malt, yeast, light fruits. Lots of berries, light fruitiness, some pines and apricoin flavour. Just very strangely composed. From hops or yeast? Who knows. Smooth.

Bottled, from Llanberis. Hazy golden, small head. Fruity minerally nose. Light bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Slightly medicinal with fruity plums and some resiny bitterness.

On cask at Hanmer Arms, Hanmer, Shropshire. Aroma was initially not pleasant but a very good ale with strong hints of biscuit and toffee.

500ml bottle at 4%. Pours an unclear orange with a small head. Aroma is bread, yeast and banana. Taste is bread throughout and some yeast on the finish. Watery.

Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Gold with white head. Malty, bready beer, quite mushed up in flavours, grainy with little of the hop impact expected. Pretty average.

Cask, gravity, at Luton Beer Festival ’11. Copper with a small white head. Pungent underarm malt aroma with a hint of nuttiness. Watery brown paper taste with a little spice. Mid bitter finish.

Cask Conditioned handpump Eastgate Northampton. A copper coloured beer with an off-white head and lacing. A hint of sulphur in the dull aroma. Earthy and bittersweet in the mouth. Quaffable but a bit uninteresting.