Mauldons Pickwick

Brewed by Mauldons
Style: Bitter
Sudbury, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask handpull at King’s Head, Norwich. Copper, lasting beige head. Bit of toast. Like a toasty best bitter. Pretty decent best bitter, nothing spectacular, but cold drink a lot of it.

[cask at Cloisters, Edinburgh] Pours clear golden colour with a decent white head. Slightly grassy/citrus aroma – more on the taste, finishes pretty citrussy, good dose of hop bitterness on the finish. Balance of caramel malt in there as well. Very sessionable, pleasantly surprised by this one [12082011]

(Cask at Edgar Wallace, Strand, London, 18 July 2011) Golden amber colour with brief, beige head. Fruity nose with orange peel, biscuits and earthy hops. Fruity, slightly malty taste with notes of apricots, orange marmalade and slightly earthy hops in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Quite nice.

Cask at Cloisters. A blonde ale with a fair white head. Musty aroma with biscuits and caramel. Flavour of musty hay, caramel and biscuity malt. Quite a dry finish.

Cask @Market Porter, Borough SE1. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some weak bitter hints. Has a fruit sweetish malty caramel finish with some hoppy aftertaste.

Cask conditioned @ Guide Dog, Soton. Light caramel and maltyness. A bit sweet but also thin. Earthy hops dont show to the full.

1. Cask Handpump at the Crown Inn, Stockport 08/12/2001 Amber coloured bitter and slightly fruity. Dry finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Lass O’ Gowrie, Manchester 06/02/2004 Golden coloured slightly pale and hoppy. Some dryness in a bitter lasting finish.

Cask conditioned at The Rose & Crown, Charlbury. Darkish amber with light head. Particularly sweet malty, lowly flavoured bitter. Fruity and grainy with a quick finish. Thin in body, largely unexiting.

Cask (gravity dispense); Beer #2 at Bedford Beer Festival 2005. Copper colour with a thin white head. Soft, light malt aroma. More mellow malt on the palate, but not a lot of bitterness initially. However, the bitterness grows rather unexpectedly, and assertively, on the finish and in the aftertaste. Mouthfeel is quite thin. Overall a straightforward and easy-drinking best bitter. Would have been better if the bitterness had appeared on the scene earlier. Quite refreshing.

May, 2005. JDW, Rochester. A soft best bitter. Unremarkable, but has a little bite in the finish and a smearing of raisin in the malt.