Kirkby Lonsdale Ruskin’s Bitter

Brewed by Kirkby Lonsdale
Style: Bitter
Carnforth, England

Serve in English pint

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Nice amber orange with a soapy lasting very lacy creamy head. Smells of citrus hops, straw, malt and cereal. Medium creamy body. Light cereal toasted malt sweetness with some caramel and a bitter hop citrus greapefruit finish. Earthy. A little bitter on the grassy finish. Good balance.

March 2010: 500ml of bottle conditioned English bitter, poured into a vase shaped pint glass, carefully. I bought this and two other, different bottles while at the Brewery Tap. The beer is clear amber and an off-white creamy head sits on top, the head left some good lacing as the beer level sank. The aroma is a heady mix of hops and yeast, couldn’t detect any malts in the smell. The taste is mostly hop based too, giving the beer a true bitter feel and a tangy bite throughout the tasting. The brewery only started up in Feb 2009, by four mates who liked Real Ale. This was their first beer brewed, I hope the other two I have to review are as good!

Golden with a small white head. Malty aroma with bready and nutty notes, and a touch of black tea. Dry and malty flavour with grassy and tea-like hops and bitterness

On cask at Greyhound Hotel, Shap. Pours amber brown with thin head. Malts, fruits with spice. A very good best bitter.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Mid amber coloured bitter with complex spicy aromas. Taste is a good mix of malt and hops mellowing to a longish dry and bitter finish.

Cask @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium amber colour with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, straw, grain - caramel, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light light heavy bitter with a average to long duration, malt and hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110803]

Cask (GBBF2011, Wed)
Gingery, but also very mashy aroma. Boring malty body - light grains - but the hops build up nicely and leave quite a sticky tingly finish.

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear amber with a off white head. Citrus , grass and vague butter. Medium bodied. Dry end. Ok

Cask at GBBF 2011. Hazy amber. Dull malt aroma with little hops, low bitterness.

From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight breadish. Bitter, toasted malty and light breadish flavoured. Bitter, fruity and light caramelish.