John Courage

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

Serve in English pint

Starting off with the most dissappointing part, I thought the appearance was lacking a little bit. Seemed to be a liitle too hazy for a pale ale. However, this beer made up for that with its very pleasant sweet, floral aroma. In addition, the beer was also had a very pleasant variety of hops that left an interesting yet enjoybable after taste.

Amber hue, small head. Slight malty/bitter taste. I think my bottle was rather old.

Light copper color, stale malt aroma, light hop bitterness, watery and weak, bland pale.

I agree that it doesn’t taste like a typical pale. I tasted sort of a dry, nutty presence. Decent

Doesn’t taste anything like an english pale ale should, but don’t rate it like that. Overall it was quite tasty.

Rather bitter Amber Ale. I had this out of a bottle and was not really impressed. It had some hops flavor and acrid aftertaste. Other than that I really did not find much that warrants calling this an Amber, malt was especially weak. It was more Lager-ish than anything.

Not bad overall, goes down smooth and easy, but was lacking in the hops department which I had come to expect of ales.

A bit thicker than I expected but otherwise very average.