John Courage

Brewed by John Smiths (Heineken UK)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Tadcaster, England

Serve in English pint

Poured amber with a small fizzy off-white head. Aroma of some hops, rather thin. Taste is primarily hops but not anything interesting or exciting going on here. Very little malt backbone. Overall an average bitter beer, may actually be inferior to Bass Ale.

I was pretty satisfied with this beer. Well balance of malt and hops. Not my favorite of this style, but not my worst.

Tap at firewaters, Hackensack. Nitro? Thats wierd. Clear golden, tanish head. Small bubbles and nitro like head, that is. Grainy aroma. British malty flavor. Light hops. Not bad, but the nitro brings out a strange flavor.

This beer was pretty gross. Tasted like budweiser with fruit. I gave it an 8 for impression because I liked the name.

amber in color. refreshing aroma. somewhat smokey and robust in flavor. not that bitter. lightly fruity as well. pretty good.

Not bad. Wouldn’t consider it very bitter, but a more flavourable typical beer. It was this or Amstel and I stick by my decision.

01.31.05 12oz bottle. Not much of a follow-up to the New Glarus Belgian Red, but I figured I’d clear the palate. Golden amber pour with sizable white head. Pretty mild aromas of cookie, grassy hops, toffee. More than a little bit cardboard-ish. This stuff used to be ubiquitous but I guess its price caught up with it eventually. Needs something to make it interesting, otherwise, it’s just another pale quaff.

Pours amber-copper with thin off-white head. Aroma and flavor of caramel. Very slight smokiness in the flavor. Somewhat thin, but balanced. A pretty drinkable bitter.