Quartz Heart

Brewed by Quartz
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Burton-on-Trent, England

Serve in English pint

BC. Misted copper, patchy off-white slick. The aroma has some weak liquorice and brown sugar notes. Flavour of rust, dubbel-like plum, raisin and soap. Slightly dank with mushroom hints. Blood and metal. Grew on me.

Cask at Market Porter, London. Pours clear amber with a faint film. Sweet aroma with tons of dark, ripe fruits and light, bready malts. Flavor is sweet with prune, grape and raisin, plus some gingerbread, and very mild bitterness. Medium in body with soft carbonation. Sweet finish with lingering dark malts, ripe fruit and candy.

Cask gravity at Bedford BF ’09. Amber. Starchy malt aroma: doughy bread, piecrust, raw potatoes. Very sweet old fashioned malty taste, like the malt extract they made me eat in the 1950’s to build me up. Slight bitterness to finish. A good old style bitter.