George Wright Brewers Revenge

Brewed by George Wright
Style: Bitter
St Helens, England

Serve in English pint

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UPDATED: JUL 28, 2007 1. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 05/07/2006 Slight chemical aroma. Amber mid brown coloured and fruity with some acidic taste. Bitter slightly dry malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Smithfield Hotel, Manchester 04/05/2007 Small white head. Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and fruity orange with some dryness in a crisp bitter finish.

Cask, Hoylake Lights. Served ridiculously cold, in a ’chill out’ glass....Why oh why ? If I want to ’chill out’ I’ll seek my pleasures elsewhere. Why the brewers revenge ?! Intriguing, perhaps some unspeakably vile ingredient has been injected. Perhaps some bodily fluid ? It certainly tasted like it, from what I could glean. Hazy amber with a lingering white head. Some fruit in the aroma. Initially not bad, with some balanced enough malt and hops, but a really nasty aftertaste, damp wood ?verging on stale, maybe I just had a bad one, but I couldn’t finish. Revenge taken.

(Cask at Welkin JDW, Liverpool, 25 July) Amber colour with frothy, brief, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of apricots and mandarin. Rather closed and thin. Malty, fruity taste with mandarin and apricots, slightly acidic (?). Rather boring stuff, actually.