Hambleton Bitter

Brewed by Hambleton
Style: Bitter
Ripon, England

Serve in English pint

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Handpump At The Old Cannon.Dark brown in colour,small head,light hop aroma,malt and cold tea taste,nice bitterness,quite dry.

First tasted this in the Golden Lion, Northallerton in August 1993. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear gold in colour with a thick white head. Strong aroma of dusty hops in the short nose. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt base gives a short digestive biscuit note with marmalade fruit. Dusty hop resins impart a dry resiny aftertaste. Slight hint of malt in at the finish. An ok session bitter.

Amber with a white head. Nose is sweet, touch cloying elderflower with sugary malt sweet, grainy malt, bitter crystal malt. Balance is a little off. Some floral and soap.

Nice and easy drinking but little to distinguish it from other bitters. A very pleasant bitterness to it though.