RCH Pitchfork

Brewed by RCH
Style: Bitter
Weston-super-Mare, England

Serve in English pint

Cask. A clear golden bitter with a decent white head providing good lacing. Nose of cereal malts and restrained floral/citric English hops. Taste is restrained sweet malts finishing with a fruity dry hop bitterness that became slightly peppery towards the end. Light-medium bodied with slick mouthfeel. Easily sessionable like all good English bitters. Decent.

Bottle pours golden with a white head. Aroma is caramel malt, floral hop, and a sour fruitiness. Flavor is sweet malt, light grassy hop, and a dry fruity finish.

500 ml bottle purchased at Gomers in Lees Summit, Missouri. Pour is hazed yellow golden, with a billowing off white head (4 inches at least) that was quite lasting, eventually falling with thick lacing. The head falls with really interesting reverse cascading, almost like its building down to a full glass of beer - I was mesmerized. Aroma of caramel and honey malt, some spritzy lemon bitterness, some grass and hay, even some pickled ginger. There is also a hint of oxidation (there was no date on the bottle that I could locate). Taste is toasty malt, with some of the caramel and honey sweetness from the nose. This quickly turns to the grassy earthiness. The bitter, ginger taste from the nose is present, but mostly in the finish. As with the nose, the lingering finish has some cardboard oxidation. Really does not detract too much for me. Palate is medium, slightly chewy, almost entirely flat. Overall, interesting enough, I like the toasty chewiness to it. The hop bitterness is almost entirely gone, would be interesting to try this one in its true form.

Bottle. Pours a very hazy bright gold with a huge white head that collapses into rocky flotsam and leaves big lacy rings. Very hoppy aroma, grassy, herbal, and citrus fruit. Biscuity pale malts provide the platform for a showcase of interesting hop chatacter: stemmy/grassy, prominent tangerine citrus peel, slightly perfumey, very bitter end. Very tasty, but a little more malt would make it something special.

Cask @ 3 Judges. Clear golden colour, white lacings. Aroma of citrus and biscuit. Flavour of biscuit malts. Slightly dry finish.

Bottle@ProeflokaalDelft. Malty and light herbal aroma. Hazy, yellow colour, off-white head, good lace. Bitter, sweetish, light grassy, some bread notes. Pretty standard Bitter but well done.

Also on Tap at Old green Tree in Bath. Dark Golden cask more fragrant than type and less bitter. Some fragrance. Nice and one could tell the difference

Sample courtesy of brent. Hazy amber pour with fluffy white head. Semi sweet aroma, vanilla, bread, light red apple. Flavor of crabapple, some spiciness, old floral hop, with a semi-bitter finish. And a little cloying. Awesome name, expensive as shit. Not worth it.