Dark Star Best Bitter

Brewed by Dark Star
Style: Bitter
Horsham, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (Kitty’s, Helsinki) Rich slightly hazy orange, loose head. Crisp hoppy aroma but with a warming almost hot-beverage-like backdrop (not going to say coffee or cocao). Spicy full bodied malty taste with a big bitter streak going right through it. Almost gingery at times. Burnt bitter finish.

Cask at the CASK Pub & Kitchen, 1st Nov 2010. Classic English bitter colour with a small head. Malt-led, a bit of a change after drinking two Dark Star IPAs. Little nose. Soft toffee-ish taste.

Cask at CPK Pimlico, London on 13th August 2010. Clear copper with white head and shallow lacing. Caramel aroma, main kick malty with some fruits and a bittersweet finish. Mouthfeel light to zingy.

Cask at Bree Louise, London. a hazy amber beer with no head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel and malt, leaidng to a lightly bitter finish.

Thin coarseish beige head. Hazy amber body. Very faint floral caramel aroma. Dry-sweet caramelly straw taste with floral notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft, smooth mouthfeel. Dryish floral wooden caramel aftertaste with rye crisp bread and straw notes. Quite nice, but a bit one-dimensional. (0.25l cask at Lamb & Flag, Covent Garden, London.)

Cask at the Harp. Rich dark brown copper color; spidery lacing from a light tan head. Lightly malty, earthy, and herbal bitterness in the aroma. Heftier body, with some earthy bitterness, toffee, and dough. Dry, bitter finish. Very, very still carbonation even for cask.

Pale, malty ale. Dark Star impress me with there use of Hops in all there beers. I have tried many Dark Star beers and they continue to impress me all the time.

Cask Real Ale at Angleterre. Pale cloydy head. pale clear coppery colour. MALTY NOSE. sourish hoppy malty fullfilled taste. At the end hoppy bitterness. Maybe too hoppy for me.

Cask (gravity) @ The Bree Louise, 69 Coburg Street, Euston, London, England NW1 2HH.

Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty peel. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light light heavy bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100801]

Dark brown body, white head. Lots of malts, some caramel and dark fruits. Smooth and nice palate.

(Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki) Poured amber and clear. Head was medium sized, long lasting and white. Aroma contained malts and something resembling whisky. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were malts, again the whisky, caramell, sweetness, hint of smoke and medium bitterness. Aftertaste was malty and bitter.