Nethergate Red Poll

Brewed by Growler Brewery (Nethergate)
Style: Bitter
Sudbury, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask@The New Wheatsheaf, London.Amber colour with a mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is malts, some nutty notes as well as earth cellar and some herbal notes. Flavour is herbs, some nutty notes, crystal malts, mild grassy and floral hoppyness along with some toasted and wooden notes.

16th September 2009
Clear amber brown beer. Light cream coloured head. Softish light palate. Nicely balanced soft malt and reasonable hop presence. A decent bitter but doesn’t quite escape the shackles of English Bitter Blandness syndrome!

Cask (handpump) @ The Bankers Draft, 1-3 Market Place, Sheffield, South Yorkshire England S1 2GH.

Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, berry, keller, nutty notes, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100424]

Deep red colour, small white head. Aroma sour, with apple, chocolate and nutty elements. Taste is bitter, with a sour, fruity aftertaste. A decent beer, not fantastic.

JDW Spring Fest 2010, Rochester. Best bitter with crystal malt giving an autumnal twang - slightly roasty, slightly twiggy and boggy. Crystal malt can be an awkward malt - used well it adds sweetness and some slight roasty chocolate notes, adding interest and flavour to a beer. Used too much and the beers taste damp and ugly and a little tannic and dry. This is more in the later camp.

Cask. Aroma is sweet, almost cola-like with some good malt as well,copper, small toffee head, plenty of lace. Flavour is apples, malt, woody and nutty too. Light bodied, balanced, nice level of bitterness, very dry. A nice session.

Cask Handpump at the Bankers Draft JDW, Sheffield 24/04/2010 Floral bready aroma. Bronze coloured a little rich on the palate and dry with a bitter and slightly earthy finish.

Cask, gravity dispense, at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Reddish copper with no head; fruity aroma; acidic sour fruit flavour; with a tart finish. Unpleasant.

Hand pulled cask at the Crosse Keys (JDW) Monument. Copper/red with a thin beige head. Toffee malts and a little caramel giving way to some late prickly hops in a dry pleasing finish.

cask at standing order JDW ...coppper ... thin white head ... spicy frity hoppy nose... that red malt taste ... i wanna know what it is ... juicy and fruity ...