O’Hanlon’s Stormstay

Brewed by O’Hanlon’s
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Exeter, England

Serve in English pint

Cask at Charlies. Clear brown - offwhite head. Sweetness. Bitterness. Dark bread. Light fruity. Tobacco. A winter beer. Ok bitterness.

Cask, handpump @ The Bridge Inn, Topsham, Devon.
Out a dimple glass, a radiant, bright tawny copper with a thin pad of white that is mostly lasting, full-full pint. Rich, plummy, fruitcake nose with notes of wood, nuts, salt, earth and fresh garden flowers, enticing. Deliciously rich fruitcake flavours, quite warming at 5.0%. Nice full body, well rounded and soft. Long burnt fruit and rose petal swallow with a lot of wood lingering, and a residual caramelised fruit sweetness. Lots of biscuity, nutty malt on the mid-palate. This is delicious. One of the mainstays for this pub as the locals love it and I can see why. A very bold bitter, delicious.

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Oaty tropical fruit aroma. Reddish brown colour, massive foamy head. Rusty apple, mixed fruit & malt flavour. Bitter aftertaste. Not a bad bitter.

Cask @ Dronning Louise, Esbjerg. Deep amber colour with a tiny beige head. Dark fruitish malty aroma. Thin mouthfeel. Flavour is malty and fruity (dark) with a medium bitterness.

Cask (GBBF2011, Wed)
Dry grainy aroma, quite fruity too - apples at least. Big toffee retronasals. Sweet winter warmer. Packed full of toffee, and only moderate apple. Yummy.

Cask at London Inn, Torquay. Pours clear amber with a small white head. Aroma is weak malty, some flowery hops as well. Taste is moderate sweet toffee followed up by a citrussy and oranges hoppy bite. Dry end.

Cask at Christian Firtal. Amber with a small white head. Fruity aroma with apple, plum and pear, with a touch of grass and hay. Sweetish fruity flavour with grassy hops and a rather bitter finish.

Copenhagen Beer Festival, 2011. Pours clear amber with a off white head. Nose is yeast, citrus and bread. Yeasty and floral citrus hoppy flavor with a dry end. Medium bodied.