Holts Two Hoots (Bottle)

Brewed by Joseph Holt
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Manchester, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottled. A golden orange coloured beer with barely any head. A bit sweaty fusty on the nose. Clean and orangey in the mouth. Obvious pasterurisation but it’s drinkable enough.

One of 16 bottled beers in the 2011 Sainsbury’s Supermarket Beer Challange. Clear 500ml bottle, two owls on a small golden front label. The beer was poured into a UK pint sleeve (Sep 2011). I knew the beer was a clear golden colour, the head that came was white, small and struggled to stay the distance. The aroma was of grassy hops with maybe some citrus esters easing through as the beer warmed. No great flavours to pontificate about, just a boring blend of hops and malts, this isn’t going to win anything. Don’t like slagging off small breweries, but this is a poor attempt for a challenge against 15 other brews.

Cask by handpump at State Bar, Glasgow (18 Feb 12) - clear solid gold ale with small white head rather bland, smooth and easy to drink, hint of citrus

3rd December 2011
ChrisOs Early December Tasting. Clear gold beer, tiny white head. Light dry palate. Pale malt with a tiny bit of hop. Dry finish. Meh!

Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, caramel malts, some mild earth and also some slight toffeeish notes. Flavour is caramel, some earthyness, mild floral and fruity notes. Ends fruity and floral. Refreshing, but quite basic golden ale.

500ml bottle from Sainsbury’s, drunk on 2 December 2011. Mid gold colour. Decent condition. Rather grainy aroma. Bready on the palate. Quite soft. Short of bitterness and hop character. Nothing too interesting here.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, light hoppy, grass, orange notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, dry, grass, toffee. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111202]

Bottled at oh6gdx’s birthday bash at chriso’s. Golden colour, small head. Fruity nose. Empty and sweetish with light body and rounded mouthfeel. Some dusted fruits, low bitterness. Dull.

bottle at home ...amber ... thin white head ... soft zezty metalic orange nose ... that boring and frankly slightly unplesant metalicness

Bottle from Sainsbury’s. Brilliant bronze with a slick white head. Aroma of mashed up digestive biscuits and pine cones. That kind of safe, generic, delicately spicy taste with good aniseedy hop, vanilla leaning into toffee/oak, fresh snapped biscuit, to be fair. Good, just a little dead after a night on the Southville Hop.