Glossop Fletchers Campaign Bitter

Formerly brewed at Glossop
Style: Bitter
Glossop, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned - handpump - Malt Shovel Northampton. Golden coloured bitter with a sour aroma. The taste is also on the sour side and is a struggle to get down. A bit of a mish mash

Cask, at Newark Beer Festival, May 2004. Notes recovered from a recently unearthed old notebook. This brewery had quality control issues from the outset and only lasted a few months. Those quality control issues were certainly on display here. It looked OK - regulation amber colour but there was a bad petrol and acetone taint in the flavour, followed by a rather sour fruit flavour. Don’t know whether they had an infection issue at the brewery or just didn’t do enough homework before releasing the beer but there was certainly something wrong here. As a point of interest, the kit (and the casks) ended up at Olfabrikken.

Gravity at the Rail Ale Beer Festival, Barrow Roundhouse, Chesterfield. Rather unpleasant beer, teeming with questionable vegetable flavours - beetroot, lettuce and sugared radish. A strong flavour all the way down the thraot. Acidic and turpentine. Sandy brown colour, no head and a chocolate aroma.