Howard Town Robin’s Nest

Brewed by Howard Town
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Glossop, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (Cambridge Blue, Cambridge)
Toffee aroma. Whisky woody aroma too, and in the retronasals. Sweet, a touch alcoholic. Fairly mellow malts, but a bit too boozy, in particular considering the strength.

Cask, gravity, at The Pig ’n’ Falcon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in the Pig’s Winter Festival ’11. Amber. Curious aroma suggestive of starched linen.Taste has malt and a distinct sweet fruitiness. Maybe strawberries. Some bitterness. No sign of the liquorice promised in the tasting notes. Howard Town beers are unusual and quirky, but so far I haven’t found one I really liked.

Cask (gravity dispense) at Pigs Ear Beer Festival, December 2008. A darker coloured, fairly string bitter with some sharp berry fruit character and a modicum of chalky hops. Good condition. Quite well balanced. Solid without standing out from the crowd.