Holts Fifth Sense (Bottle 4.3% version)

Brewed by Joseph Holt
Style: Bitter
Manchester, England

Serve in English pint

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500 ml bottle. Finland.
Clear golden colour with small white head. Sweetish fruity and floral hoppy aroma with twist of caramel and citrus. Bitter hoppy flavour with notes of fruit tea and grass. Short bitter aftertaste which turns a bit sweet.

12 Oct 2011: My 500ml brown bottle was best before 9 Oct, so it’s 3 days too old tonight! The label claims "This nocturnal brew is sure to catch you by surprise. Guaranteed to arouse your Fifth Sense - Taste". Well lets see: I’m about to pour the bottle into a standard UK pint sleeve (a 2002 CAMRA fest one from Boston in the Fens). Good looking brew, clear and bright, an amber colour with an orangey hue: the head was white, but didn’t hang around to be introduced, so it loses a half point. Floral, fruity hop aroma with bicuity malts just below the surface. The taste is crisp, sharp and hoppy, the malts calming it all down after the initial hit of hops. The hops then take over again as the mouth begins to dry. Well balanced, with a hop lead and finish, a fine beer, pity so few have reviewed it.

Aroma gives almondy hops and sweet malts. Bright light copper beer with white foam wich not last long. Taste is balaced, there is honey sweet malts and a bit of bitter citrus. This cherish my taste buds nicely with mildness and balance.

Bottle. Golden colour with a small white head. Slightly hoppy aroma. Flavour is sweet malt, citrus, floral hops and slightly bitter. Light to medium body, a bit watery.

Mild aroma of hops, can taste this in its bitterness which is weak despite having a medium body.

4.3% amber colour with a thin head, floral aroma, slightly sweet fruity taste.

Bottled. An amber coloured beer with a tiny off-white head. A sweet aroma with obvious pasteurisation and boiled sweets. There are a few orangey hop notes too. Short and sweet in the mouth. Again boiled sweets. Not good.

UPDATED: JUL 3, 2011 500 ml bottle from B&M: Barley sugar aroma, golden with a white head which rapidly disappears. Light, medium bitter thin, watery, Nothing particular to recommend or condemn, just dull. Almost a definition of "better than no beer at all."

bottleat ben... amber ... big white head ... soft sweet resiny fruit ... olght toffeee malt nose ... very simple non descript ... sweeet tofffe malts ... botin but decent

Live rate. Bottle from Booth’s- cost me about a quid. I got done. Dead bronze with a low, shrinking head. Aroma of boiled sweets and pasteurised nothingness. Flavour of stale boiled sweets, pateurised nothingness and loose change. Only the desperate and the uninformed drink this kind of crap.

Bottled 500ml (K-Kamppi, ABV 4.3%)
Light clear amber color, small white head. Bready and nutty aroma with hints of flowery hops and dry yeast. Light body. Bready, citrusy, a bit sweet nutty flavor. Lingering citrusy bitterness in the aftertaste. Decent, but typical low abv British bitter.