Darwin Evolution Ale

Brewed by Darwin
Style: Bitter
Sunderland, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask@2006 Derby Winter Beer Festival. Dark amber beer with a light head. The aroma and flavour is lightly dry. Overall an OK lightly dry and slightly caramel beer.

Tasted this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 2001. Cask, gravity dispense. Clear dark amber in colour with a thin buff head. Stunning aroma with burning peat hags and carmelised orange notes - wonderful stuff. Smooth oily mouthfeel and good lacing. Mixed malts give a robust maltloaf base with caramel, molasses and orange peel notes evident. Citric hops give a dry fruity aftertaste long in intensity. Malt returns in the toffee and orange oil finish. An excellent session bitter and well recommended.

A Mes rate: Cask at the Wenlock (I think). Fresh and hoppy all round with some grapefruit and a crisp and very bitter finish. Very dry but not in a bad way. Decent beer.

1. Cask Stillage at the Mill At The Pier, Wigan 09/03/2001 Sweet with a hint of ginger. 2. Cask Handpump at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 22/07/2005 Golden and hoppy. Some fruity bubble gum flavour. Some dryness in a crisp nutty malt finish.

Straight from the Cask at the Chesterfield Beer Festival on 04/02/05. Hazey light brown colour. Fresh tasting, hoppy & dry. Quite bitter in the aftertaste. Pretty avarage.