Leeds Best

Brewed by Leeds
Style: Bitter
Leeds, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask-conditioned at the Inn on the Green, Bristol 13/08/10. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head. Butterscotch and Red fruit aroma. Very sweet flavour with plenty of diacetyl, and short bitter finish. I was grateful that it was only half a pint.

Cask @ JDW Beckett’s Bank, Leeds 280412
Amber, clear, thick creamy head, some lacing
Aroma - light pale malts, hint of cereal hops, little on the nose
Taste - light pale malts, light caramel malt, soft bitter light hops, touch of biscuit, bland
Palate - soft carb, thin body. Finish as main flavour...bit dry...light bitter...dull
Overall - dull beer - totally average bitter

Cask. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Dark yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Light bitter flavor. Some butterscotch notes. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate.

Cask @ The Market Porter. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are butter, caramel, malt and hops. Bitter finish.

On cask at Cloisters. Pours a dark golden colour with a thick white head. Aroma of toffee and caramel with similar flavours. Moderate carbonation and a foamy mouth-feel.

Cask at The Old Bell, Harrogate. Pours a clear deep orange with a small lasting creamy off-white head. Aroma’s quite buttery (diacetyl) along with light hops. Flavour’s malty along with a decent amount of hops, only slightly buttery, and with a mild, short bitter finish. Medium bodied. It’s alright, an O.K. Bitter.

Cask (gravity dispense) at Battersea Beer Festival on 10 February 2011. Amber colour. Soft and rather sweet. Distinctly mellow and easy-drinking. Some late bitterness but I still found it a low on bite for my taste - I’d have preferred a more assertive hop presence. Perfectly competent though, just not really my favoured style of bitter.

Cask @ 3 Craws. Dark golden colour, creamy off-white head. Aroma is light malted, bit of vegetables. Flavour is malty, some hops. Slightly bitter finish. Not much to it.

UPDATED: SEP 25, 2011 Cask conditioned handpump Southwark Tavern Borough Market. An amber coloured beer with a thin whitish head. A fairly sweet fruity beer with a nice jammy nose. Decent fruity hops in the mouth. Perhaps a touch too sweet but pretty drinkable. Score 3.4
Subsequent rating also scored 3.4.

Half, cask at The Brewery Tap. Clear, copper coloured body. Aroma of leafy hops and sweet malts. Fresh taste of hop resin, caramel malts with the support of bitter berries (Leeds, 10.07.2010).