Cotleigh Snowy

Brewed by Cotleigh
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Wiveliscombe, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at Spoons, Milton Keynes. Copper coloured with a small white head. Sweet, gluey malt aroma. Taste is pure sweetness, if you ignore the cardboard. Sugary, cloying and rather pleasant on a winter’s night in Milton Keynes. A hint of bitterness.

My first ever visit to ‘The Southampton Arms’ (London)and one of the many cask offerings was this beer: my fourth beer of a slow Saturday afternoon session (Feb 2012) was a hand-pulled pint of this, poured into an old ‘dimpled pint mug’, like all the cask ales are in this pub. Pale for a winter brew, it almost looks like a dark lager/pilsner: golden, clear and with a thin white covering for a head. The nose is a pleasant blend of mild biscuit malts and some floral hop smells. Taste wise it comes alive: a hop bitterness combined with a citrus and spicy feel give the malt content something to think about, the malts respond by hitting your taste buds with non-sweetened caramel biscuits and a toffee apple. A great last pint before moving on into central London for a Film Festival.

Cask @ The Three Guineas. Pours clear dark amber wuth a creamy beige head leaving lace. Aroma is malty, hay, hoppy, fruity and bready. Flavor as aroma, nicely fruity, some green apples and has a very good bitterness. Finishes longlived bitter with a fruity touch.

50 cl bottle @ chriso.
Originally rated on 20110722.
Pours clear yellow color with bubbly head. Aroma is honey, spices, soapy and mildly woody. Flavor of mild fruits, spices, honey and light malts. Reminds me of some Shepherd Neame brews.
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Bottled (Beers Of Europe). Golden colour, small white foamy head. Aroma is wood, some floral notes and mild Shepherd Neame house aroma. Flavour is being bitter, mild sweet fruity notes as well as some wooden notes. Rather mouthdrying palate.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, butterscotsch, hay. flavour is fruit, malt, hop, caramel, , grass. Medium body. OK beer.

Bottle 500ml. clear glass.

Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, light dusty hay - straw, moderate hoppy, grass, orange - citrus, toffee notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110415]

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. It’s a clear, dark golden beer with a small, off-white head. Fruity, grassy and slighlty flowery nose with a touch of something spicy or herbal. The flavor has biscuity malts, some toffee and bitterness, as well as the same herbal or spiced note found in the aroma. Medium to full body, pleasant carbonation. Herbal, grassy and toffee-biscuity malts in the end. Well, quite drinkable, but rather uninteresting. 110415

Bottle @ Ulfborg Easter Gathering, 2011. Pours unclear dark copper with a small creamy egg white head. Grain and citrus. A bit of cellar. Singl malt . . Medium bodied.

Bottle 500ml @ fonefan
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt and grassy hops. Taste is light sweet and light bitter. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle @ FOneFan. Clear golden with medium off-white head. Flavour is malt, bitter, caramel, funky and strange.