Meenans Best Bitter

Brewed by Meenans Wines and Spirits
Style: Bitter
Dunedin, New Zealand

Serve in English pint

Growler. A nut brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of sulphur and metal as well as lighter notes of caramel and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and metal, as well as lighter notes of sulphur and caramel, leading to a dry metallic finish. The body is light.

Sampled fresh from the spiggot at Meenans. Medium amber brown, toffee malt aroma. Thin mouhfeel and low caramel flavours really add up to what this is: a discount, no frills, bare-bones crack at the style. On the plus side, well, I guess it’s cheap!

2L rigger shared with Donfardz64 in Dunedin. Basic aroma - some burnt malt and milk chocolate, grainy hops. Quite a grainy flavour. Some disinfectant like tastes in there. Refreshing, but tastes like a typical homebrew.

2L rigger shared with sdriessen. Pours dark orange/brown, off white head. Aroma has vanilla, burnt malt, grain. Smells like a bitter should. Grainy burnt malt flavours, disintegrates into a bitter mess with nothing going for it. Flavour is bland, compared to the aroma.

A very nice, less-sweet-but-still-sweet ale that’s got lots of malt and little hops. Bready and biscuity. If you like this kind of beer, you’re in heaven.

Tasted 10/06 Std NZ brown draught. Sweet, malty, bread, brown, fizzy. Uninspiring but unfortunately one of the brewers better efforts.

this is their best bitter? tasted the same as lion brown or canterbury draught without the slight industrial nastiness

typical bland, brown kiwi beer that has all the flavour interest of wholemeal bread. no major impurities i guess, just bland. and cheap!