Jarrow Venerable Bede

Brewed by Jarrow Westoe
Style: Bitter
South Shields, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask-conditioned at the Cornubia, Bristol 25/05/2011. Pale amber with a slight, off-white head. Sherbet, yeasty aroma with some apricot and citrus hops. Sweetish malt flavour, with lots more fruit and a dryish finish. Good.

First tasted this in the Three Judges, Glasgow in October 2003. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale garnet in colour with a thin creamy white head. Slight hint of roast grain in the short aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a weak maltloaf base with raisin fruit and molasses. Slight spicy prickle of hop resins in the short aftertaste. A sweet winey overipe fruit finish with tart grape skins evident. An ok session bitter.

Cask Stillage from the Cellar at the Crescent, Salford 25/07/2003 Mid brown coloured slightly rich on the palate and fruity with a hint of bitterness in a dry roast finish.

Cask @ 3 Judges. Golden colour, white head. Aroma is soft malty, slightly hoppy. Flavour is malty, fruity. Smooth.

Cask in Blackfriars. Aroma is solid, bittering english grassy peppery hop, pale and richer biscuity hops. Taste is similar, well balanced and excellent.

Cellar run cask condition Ship & Mitre BF April 08. Gold/copper colour. Really a very drinkable bitter. Good balance of hop/malt/yeast. Biting hops on end which are full at the same time. One of the better bitters of the festival. Rounded. Bit of caramel and good bitterness.

A Sim rate (Cask at the Oakdale Arms): Amber colour. Farty, eggy sulphuric aroma with a bit of hops. Hoppy citric flavour. Not great.

A dark copper amber coloured beer with a thickish white head. A light malty nose, with a subtle hint of hop in the background. The taste is bitter and dry, malty, slightly syrupy with a background hoppiness in a dry finish. (Cask - @ The Fox & Hounds, Heacham, Norfolk).