Okells Red

Brewed by Okells
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Douglas, Isle of Man

Serve in English pint

Cask @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium red amber color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, ´roasted, caramel, fruity, nutty notes, moderate hoppy, orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090806]

From cask. Pours hazy amber with a small off white head. Aroma is roasted and malty. Fruity and hoppy. Dark malty and roasted. Fruity and sweet malty flavoured into the finish.

Cask@GBBF2009. Amber colour, beige head. Aroma is caramel, red fruits, red berries as well as some wooden and mildly nutty notes. Flavour is caramel, fruits, wood, mild notes of raisins as well as some nuttyness. Balanced.

Cask at GBBF 2009. Reddish copper, lasting beige head. Sweetish bitter, touch of strawberry fruit. Bit watery in mouth. Faint spritzey finish. Neither a bitter not nor a sweetish red ale. Falls between the 2 stools. OK, if not ery interesting.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Deep amber color, small beige head. Dry woody hoppy nose. Some nuts and caramel, light dry woody hops in the flavor. Sweetish and not very exciting "red".

Amber with a small off-white head. Fruity sweet aroma with orange peel notes. Sweet caramel flavour with American hop character and a good bitterness.

Cask at standing order (JDW) in ’Spoons Real Ale Festival, April ’09 ...sligth hazy brown copper ... thin lacing ... bright dry citrus hop ... spicy hop... light malt in background ... pretty decent.

A Mes rate. Cask handpull from Baker Street ’Sporks.
Dark copper with a thin off white head and plenty of lace. Well balanced bright and perfumed hops with some good malty hints and a really pleasing bitterness in the finish. Straight forward but really enjoyable.