Great Newsome Frothingham Best

Brewed by Great Newsome
Style: Bitter
Hull, England

Serve in English pint

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500ml bottle from the endlessly wonderful Sourced Market at St Pancras rail station. Orange chestnut clear colour with thin beige head. Rich malty aroma with some toast. Slightly earthy best bitter. Some ok rich malt flavour but mostly earthy hops. Some dryness on finish. Earthy rubberyness isnt great

Cask by handpump at Three Judges, Glasgow (12 Apr 12) - clear brown ale, small off-white head, very mild malty aroma, good temperature, citrus hop, well balanced by the malt, dryish finish

500ml bottle. Clear amber with small frothy white head. Floral hop aroma, dark fruity malt. Nice balanced taste, slightly sweet fruity malt basis, peach, mandarin accompanied by a dry, bitter, sometimes almost biting part. Good.

Cask at Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield. Brown color. Sweet malty caramel aroma. Malty taste with moderate biterness, some toffee,

500ml bottle purchased at Sourced Market, St Pancras train station. Dark brown body, beige bubbly head. Brown malty nose. Malt-fuity to the taste buds with a plain dry bitter end. Quite quaffable (shared with friends, hotel room in London, 21.03.2011).

Cask handpull, The Devonshire Cat, Sheffield. Pale ruby, slim beige lid. Oily sesame aroma with some coffee, cinder toffee and berries emerging as it gets warmed up. Subtle and slightly damp; choc and sesame, very weak coffee and toasted hazelnut, soapy dabs, apple and earth. Better than I originally gave it credit for.

Bottle 50 cl. Pours a clear dark amber with a rich beige head. Nutty aroma and somewhat leathery with burned caramel and a woody edge. Discreetly hoppy finish. 230110

[on cask @ RBESG 2009] Nutty and quite fruity aroma that is slightly sherry-like. Almost clear chestnut appearance. Nutty flavour that has a little toffee, but is weak. Slightly sour. Light to medium body, low carbonation, slightly nutty finish.

Bottle, from Asda Grimsby. Copper gold, thin shortlived white head and low condition. Gentle hoppy floral aroma mixed with a scent that immediately reminded me of Sheffield Midland Railway Station in the mid 1980’s, a mix of grime and diesel and used ticket stubs - a pleasant enough aroma but not quite what I would expect from a glass of beer, not such a nostalgic journey in the mouth with gentle toffee notes blending harmoniously with a soft hop bitterness and slight peppery spiciness, quite full bodied and slightly nutty. The nuttiness lingers slowly into the finish, some of the fruity hop bitterness returning and a gentle malty sweetness playing around the lips. Ahh, thats my train now, I must be going.

Cask (gravity) @ Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield, England... Brown ... sweet dry toffee nose... light bitter malt ... some hop ... low toffee big bitter.