Cox & Holbrook Rattlesden Best Bitter

Brewed by Cox & Holbrook
Style: Bitter
Stowmarket, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at Leyton Orient Supporters Club on 20th November 2009, during the Piglet festival. Amber with off white foam. Delicious smoky aroma with citric fruitiness. The two work in harmony creating a fine bi-directional flavour experience ending in a dryish finish.

Gravity At The East Anglian Beer Festival 05.Amber brown in colour with a small head,aroma is hops and sulphur,taste is of hops and hay,dry finish.

Hazy Amber. Sulphur and light malt in aroma. Slightly cloying flavour. Smooth, though boring and a bit unrefined.

Cask@St Albans BF. Sulphur in the nose. Grainy, slightly salty, with not too much else happening. NOt the best bitter.

There have been quite a number of beers from this rejuvenated Suffolk micro on offer at recent beer festivals. This is not their best effort, although the excessive whiff of sulphur on the nose suggests this was not at its best. Once the sulphur disperses, undeveloped malt reveals itself in the aroma. The flavours include some dry malt and some hoppy bitterness, but nothing very distinctive. Too much "homebrew" character for my liking. An average best bitter. Cask (gravity dispense) at St Albans Beer Festival 2004.