Flowers IPA

InBev UK
Brewed at Brains
Style: Bitter
Luton, England

Serve in English pint

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Clear orange coloured. Hoppy aroma. Fruity and bitter flavour, very soft mouthfeel. Bitter finish.

Sampled this in the Bar Point, Paisley in June 1992. Cask, handpump dispense. Dark amber in colour with a thin creamy white head. Aromatic hop flower bouquet, short on the nose. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives a digestive biscuit base flavour with slight gooseberry fruit notes. Dry dusty hop resins gives a slight bitter astringency to the short aftertaste. Finish has a sweetness of barley sugar fading to leave a dusty resiny palate. A poor session bitter.

Cask, The York. floral aroma. Some caramel and butter. Hint of spice on the finish.

Cask. Light, malty nose. Amber color. Flavor of caramel malt, minerals, pepper hops. Ok but a bit boring.

On tap at the Slug and Lettuce, Birmingham. Pours an orange/amber colour with small head. Aroma and flavour of caramel with light floral hop aftertaste. Drinkable.

On tap at Slug and Lettuce, pours clear bronze. Aroma of bitter English malts and light caramel. Flavour of traditional bitter English malts, light toasted caramel and light spices. Not too good.

Cask Conditioned handpump Royal Oak Naseby. An amber coloured beer with a whitish head. Sweet aroma with caramel in mouth as well. A lot of sweet nothiingness really.

Cask. Woody winey nutty nose, good chewy body, with oak, a good balance of sweet malt and grassy hops, woody bitter finish, very quaffable.

Cask The County, Hexham Copper-coloured with small white head. Hop aroma with some floral notes. Thin palate. Malty flavour with some hints of acid. Detected a fairly nasty aftertaste. Didn’t much like this.

Another beer that has been brewed at many breweries over the years. Very little in the way of distinctive flavours and difficult to know why it is still being made. Something and nothing.

From cask at Duke of Wellington. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off-white head. Light roasted and dry caramelish to breadish aroma. Bitter and roasted breadish malty base flavoured. Persisting malty into the finish.