Isle of Purbeck Fossil Fuel

Brewed by Isle of Purbeck
Style: Bitter
Swanage, England

Serve in English pint

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A - fruity with buttery caramel A - full gold with thin head T - sweet with mid bitter P - mid O - ehh..

Tasted this at the Troon Beer Festival in October 2008. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale copper in colour with a thin white head. Slight eggy aroma with hints of sweet toffee in the short aroma. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a digestive biscuit base with sweet toffee notes laced through. Flinty taste of harsh hop resins give a sharp bitter aftertaste which lasts through. Finish is bitter with metallic notes strong in the palate. An ok bitter but nothing special going on.

(Cask at Angleterre, 20111111) The beer poured amber and clear. Aroma had sweetness and mildly berries. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were malts, grass, toffee and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty and bitter. Not so pleasant aroma but taste was ok.

Cask. The Three Legged Mare, York. Thin white head, gold body. Malt, hops, fruity. nutty, sulphur. Bittersweet. Dry finish. Creamy and soft mouthfeel.

Cask@3rd Stortford Beer Festival, Bishops Stortford. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is quite sulphury, wooden, earthy, mildly malty and some slight spicy notes as well. Flavour is fruity, wooden and mildly resiny and spicy as well.

Cask (gravity) @ The 3rd Stortford Beer Festival, British Legion Club, 28 Windhill, Bishops Stortford , England CM23 2NG.

Clear medium to dark amber orange colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, light to moderate hoppy, orange - citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110729]

Cask at Bishop’s Stortford Beer Festival 2011. An amber beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of fruit, malt, and caramel, leading to a dry finish.

[3153-20100723] 500mL bottle. Light bread grains aroma. Clear, orange amber body with a quick foamy white head. Light floral bready yeast flavour. Medium body. Drinkable but a little odd.
(At a wedding in Bournemouth, England; w/ jerc, mebden)

2010-07-23. Dark amber body with a small head that fades away. Lightly earthy malt aroma, bit odd but not unpleasant. 6+ Flavour is modestly bitter, touches of caramel and treacle to the malt, light earthy accents, toasty malt. Average palate suits it. Served a bit too warm but it is pretty decent. Bottle at a wedding

Cask conditioned gravity dispense Merchants Inn Rugby. A light amber coloured beer with a slight off-white head and lacing. The aroma is fusty with a bit of fruit. The taste is more of the same. There’s a little caramel sweetness and it’s predominantly malty. Ok only.