Kings Head JJs Lemon Bitter

Brewed by Kings Head
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Bildeston, Ipswich, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask conditioned at the Ipswich Beer Festival 2004, gravity dispense. Moderately spicy aroma and flavour, citrus (= lemongrass) is there of course. Light bodied, refreshing.

A beer from a brewpub based in a small town in rural Suffolk, which rarely distributes its beers more widely. This one is flavoured with lemon grass but, in common with a number of other beers at this festival, it had a rather intrusive level of sulphur on the nose, which masked out any delicate nuances of aroma. The lemon grass was very difficult to detect in the flavour and, although I noted a very subtle spicy citric undertone, I’m sure I wouldn’t have put that down to lemon grass had I not already known that it was used as a flavouring. Perfectly drinkable, but a touch too understated for its own good. Cask (gravity dispense), Ipswich Beer Festival.