Redwillow Directionless

Brewed by Redwillow
Style: Bitter
Macclesfield, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at the Euston Tap - London. Pours clear gold with a fine, bubbly-foamy white head. Nose holds lots of dried grapefruit, mango and orange. Light to medium sweet flavor with more orange and grapefruit, some mild tropical fruits, lightly sugary pale malts, white bread, straw. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly dry to finish, some straw and hay, dry pale malts, bits of orange and lemon. Very tasty stuff. Well balanced.

Cask at CBI, London on 1st April 2013. Copper with thin whitish decaying head. Fruity and malty aromas. Citric hop meets biscuit malt in-mouth; bittersweet finish on a zingy mouthfeel.

UPDATED: MAY 4, 2013 Cask - an amber ale with a slight hazy & pale white head. Aroma - citrus fruits and malty. Taste hops with lemon or orange notes and a fine bitterness. Decent enough. I’d try it again.

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; hazy copper pour with minimal off white head, toffee and malt aroma, caramel malt taste with some slight hoppy grapefruit action.

Cask (handpump) @ CASK Pub & Kitchen, 6 Charlwood Street, London, Greater London, England SW1V 2EE.

Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, mango. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, mango. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120806]

Cask from handpump at bar 3, half shared with Finn at The National Winter Ales Festival. Copper-amber coloured body. No head. Semi-dry, grapefruit nose. Taste of succulent oranges and grapefruit supplied by juicy malts. Fresh bittersweet fruity end. A good fruity thirst quencher (Manchester, 24.01.2013).

Slightly clouded golden bitter with a fair sized head and a high bitterness.

DIrectionless. I am not. Who said that? Aimless I may be (should that be maybe? Maybe it shouldn’t). Some nice hops here for a bitter, not your classic smooth British bitter, more flavour. Better.

500ml bottle. Faulty. Low carbonation, watery, poor taste. I dont believe this is representative of what the brewer intended. bb July 2013.

Bottle from Rehills, Newcastle. Amber coloured with orange marmalade, toffee and citrus fruity flavours followed by a bitter pine hoppy finish.