Crouch Vale Essex Boys Bitter (Cask)

Formerly brewed at Crouch Vale
Style: Bitter
South Woodham Ferrers, England

Serve in English pint

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Hand pulled at the Bartons Arms, Birmingham. Nice hoppy aroma (typical from CV). Mid brown colour, like the DJ says. Very good beginning - really nice hops and balance. Things drop off though, and the problem is that the second part of the beer is longer than the nice start. Too watery in the finish. Could have been better.

Cask at the Wharf, Aalborg. amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, apple, hop, caramel, grass. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

Bottle 500ml.

ABV: 4.0% Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, light orange - citrus, vegetable notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110619]

Bottled (4.0 % ABV). Ambery golden colour, small slightly off-white head that leaves some quite nice lace. Aroma is fruits, wood and some mild notes of spruce. Flavour is fruits, floral notes, mild earthy and some slight herbal notes.

Cask at the Wharf. A clear, amber beer with a small, off-white head. Rather weak aroma, with a maltyness in the back. The palate is smooth and medium bodied, with a nice bitterness. Nuttyness and some caramel, as well as citrusy, slightly grassy hops. Lasting bitterness. A quite decent one, but I can’t really see myself drinking it all night long. 110417

Cask @ The Wharf, Aalborg, Denmark
Pours clear amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, grassy and fruity hops. Taste is light sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

5th August 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! On tap at the Sun Inn, Kelvedon. A big dissapointment after the Amarillo, probably got these the wrong way round. Watery palate and flavours that still manages to be bitter. Not much going for this.

(Cask at Castle, Chancery Lane, London, 24 Nov 2010) Dark amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of orange, dried apricots, hints of caramel and earthy hops. Malty, fruity taste with dried fruit, orange, toast and earthy hops in a finish with a decent bitterness. Rather light body, with balanced sweetness. Very tasty and highly drinkable. Nice one.

Cask (gravity) - Norwich Beer Festival 2010. Clear amber/copper with a lasting, bubbly white head & light lacework. Lemon, orange, floral hops and sweet pale malt aromas - just a touch of apple at the back. All those lovely aromas come through on the tongue, some biscuity malt with a decent length finish. A bit of sharpness on the end & a light, sessionable body. Another solid offering from Crouch Vale.

Cask Conditioned handpump Wig & Pen Northampton. An amber coloured beer with a whitish head. A fruity beer with apply notes, especially in the aroma. Not got the Crouch Vale hoppiness I expect, instead being quite a malty beer. Might not have been at its best.

Cask conditioned at Fleetwood Beer Fest 2010. Copper with white head. Ahh, a good old session bitter, well balanced with a darker malty body, a touch sharp, green and then an oily light hop. Good stuff which I would like to try outside of a festival.