Loddon Crown Rivers Exclusive Ale

Brewed by Loddon
Style: Bitter
Reading, England

Serve in English pint

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From cask at Wetherspoon/The Crown Rivers bar, Terminal 5, Heathrow. Pours clear and golden orange with a creamy off-white head. Caramel malty and light butterish aroma. Dense caramel flavoured, light sweet initially but soon turning quite bitter. Hard roasted caramel malty finish with a bitter and spiced hops flavour into a dry far finish.

Cask, handpump at JDW Heathrow T5, 29.02.12 Pours mid amber with a white head and a very slight haze. Run of the mill bitter but not bad. Fruity with a little caramel, drying at the end. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1

Cask @ Crown River, JDW. Heathrow Terminal 5. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a frutiy malty caramel finish with hoppy hints.

Cask handpull, JDW, Heathrow Terminal 5. Fine bitter with a pleasant hoppy sting, blending seamlessly with the malty base. Lovely clear amber. A hint of yeast in the finish.

Cask Handpump at the Crown Rivers JDW, Terminal 5 Airside Heathrow Airport 21/09/2010 Malt aroma. Copper golden coloured smooth on the palate and a little hoppy with a hint of dryness in a bitter lasting malt finish.

pint at london heathrow terminal 5 wetherspoons. nice pint. dark brown. little head.

Semi sweet, malty brwon beer. Reasonably balanced, some hop aroma discernible, slightly tart aftertaste and finish.

3rd June 2010 - Weatherspoons @ T5 Heathrow. Clear light amber beer, not much head. Moderate carbonation. Light dry thin palate. Pretty well balanced - a light toffeeish malt and some light bitter orange from the hops. Fresh and has a sweet note right before the finish. Okay but a tad to dry.

Cask at Wetherspoon/The Crown Rivers bar, Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruity and soft malty. Flavour is malty with caramel. A bit bland.

My last pint of this European adventure... Heathrow, terminal 5 with a big plate of haggis. Amber coloured beer with a creamy white head. Aroma is quite fresh. Lightly fruity with soft berrys over a light crackery maltiness. Lightly crackery with a soft herbal woodiness. Lean to moderate bitterness with a lovely lingering fruitiness. A bit of orange peel. Really, quite tasty.

(Cask at Crown Rivers JDW, Heathrow Airport, London, 10 Aug 2008) Amber colour woth frothy, beige head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of orange and earthy hops. Fruity, malty taste with orange peel, toffee and earthy hops in the finish. Rather sweet. Decent bitter, but hardly exciting.