Downton Red Hop

Formerly brewed at Downton
Style: Bitter
Salisbury, England

Serve in English pint

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Draught (Kuikka, Helsinki) Oi! Tranquility, this is where you had yours! Yours? It was mine!!! Mostly hoppy aroma, some nuttiness. Served too cold. Hoppy, but not interesting.

Draught at Pikkulintu. Nice red brownish colour. Some taste of hasselnuts also in the nose. Some hints of cacao in the taste.

Cask somewhere in Helsinki. Clear red/a bit brown colour with almost no head. Coffee aroma, nuts and coffee in the taste.

Cask at Market Porter. Deep amber beer with a thin lace. Nice sweet caramelly aroma (even a little bit worty). Some very faint chocolate and a light cherry fruitiness. Flavour is a bit earthy and mushroomy with a soft caramelly background. Nice malty complexity. Rich and fairly sweet, but not cloying. Toasty, with just enough earthy bitterness to balance.

Cask conditioned at The Woolpack, Banbury. Red brown with white head. Malty, rich beer with a sweet background, fruity and full there are fleshy fruit notes all the way through. little of the hop in the title, but it is most definitely red.