Marstons New Fangled

Formerly brewed at Marstons (Marstons plc)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Burton-on-Trent, England

Serve in English pint

Bottled, Pasteurised. Orange amber beer with thin head. A one dimensional sharp hop flavour with a thin background. Dry & bitter.

Amber, foxy colour, clear. Nice white head. Nose is weedy, as fresh nettles, vines - and hopplant maybe, certainly not what we're used to recognise as hoppy. Taste is rather malty at first (coloured, ambrée malts); but not sweet. Quite bitter and metallic palate and finish. Malt gives good body; a bit spritzy. Aftertaste is bitter - resembling hoppy, different in some weedy way. Long bitterness. Nice 'experiment', succeeded in many ways, but two questions remain. WHY the clear glass bottles, and WHY no bottle-conditioning?

An attractive orange yellow colour and faint hoppy yeasty aroma. I think any hint of orange aroma is in the brewers imagination. Recommend name change to ’Marstons Plain’.

A light hoppy smell. Bitter, dry and a bit metallic.