Cottage Western Glory

Brewed by Cottage
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Castle Cary, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned handpump Star Geddington. An amber coloured beer with a whitish head and lacing. The aroma is fruity and malty with berry notes. It’s the same in the mouth. Good berry fruitiness. A tasty Wintery beer.

Cask@The Harborough Hotel, Melton Mowbray. Golden brown beer with a strongish head. The aroma and flavour is yeasty and dry. Overall a nice yeasty and dry beer.

Cask, The Harboro Hotel, Melton Mowbray. Copper with a dense head. Aromas are toffee malts with pepper and sulphur. Some metallic notes. Flavours are sweet toffee and caramel malts. Floral with some damp notes. Average.

Cask Conditioned, at the Market Porter, London.
Amber body with medium speckled head. Moderate hop aroma. Citrus zing on the tongue. Reasonable refreshing for this strength bitter, they can often be too heavy.

1. Cask Handpump at the Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield 06/10/2003 Copper mid brown colour and very fruity. Hoppy with a lasting slightly dry malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the George & Dragon, Great Budworth 13/04/2004 Mid brown very smooth and slightly fruity. Some bitterness and dryness in a malt finish.

Cask Conditioned at The Cwellyn Arms, Rhyd Ddu, Gwynedd, Wales. Brown in clour with thick white head. Sweet malty beer but a touch bland and tasteless. Short lasting and flabby.
By now I was comatose anyway after the climb and several pints.

Cask conditioned @ JDW Soton. Raisins toasty malt. Medium dry with moderate bitter finish. Thick creamy body. Good to start with but flavours fade into blandness.

UPDATED: DEC 17, 2006 Reddish colour. Dark, malty aroma. Fresh flavour with some hop bite, but nothing too assertive. Quite fruity. Like many Cottage beers, I found this respectable, but unexciting. Cask (handpump), Red Lion, Isleworth. (6/3/6/3/12). RE-RATE. Handpump at The Raven, Bath, April 2006. Showing better. Deep copper colour. Strong malty aroma. More hops come though on the palate - earthy and citric at the same time. Some late liquorice too. (7/3/6/4/14). Average of the two scores given.

Cask@The Red Lion, Isleworth, London. Some light toffee and butterscotch, some malt sourness. A bit flat and grainy.

Hand pulled at the Anchor, Birmingham. Dark brown bitter, with a quarter inch cream top. Creamy aroma. Banana malt flavour. Standard stuff really. Unresponsive carboard dry finish. Some sweet and cream. Bland.