Gadds Dragons Blood ESB

Brewed by Ramsgate
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Broadstairs, England

Serve in English pint

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A Mes rate: Gravicask at Planet Thanet. Amber coloured. Malty alcohol nose with plenty hops too. Some very unusual tary notes in the flavour. Hoppy finish. Bland but ok.

Cask: This is a really nice, hoppy malty ESB. Lots of caramel in the flavour. You’d never guess it’s strength. Couldn’t drink more than a couple though as it could become too cloying.

Cask gravity at The Chambers BF 07, Folkestone. I ended up talking to Eddie Gadd about this beer on the Saturday of the Planet Thanet BF. He said that when he put it in barrels, it was so bitter it made his eyes water but that he was really happy with how the hops had softened and how the beer finally turned out. It’s an amber beer with thin beige head. English hop aroma, little bit of cheddar cheese. Malts are reasonably juicy and then lovely floral hop gives a lasting finish.