Ringwood Old Thumper (Cask)

Brewed by Ringwood (Marstons plc)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Ringwood, England

Serve in English pint

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A beer you cannot go wrong with. A good solid taste without being heavy. Be careful how you drink it. Before you know it you’ve had more than what you thought

in Farhnam, Dorset after a days hiking....perefect setting and a wonderfule, well kept, flavorful pint

cereal, toast, roasty, herbs, earthy, woody, amber, clear, frothy, lightly bitter, medium body, slick feel, soft carbonation, long finish,

From the cask at The Great Lost Bear. A translucent brown with a very light but lacy head. Smells creamy and bitter. Tastes creamy and lightly of apple. Bitter hoppy finish. Smooth and delicious. This beer was damn good and I’m not sure if it was the beer or the fact that I missed the taste of ale from the cask. If you’re in Portland you must try it.

My 400th rating. Cask, Turf Tavern, Oxford. Lovely russet pour with a fine, dense cap of persistent, streaky white head. Deep caramel melaniodan aroma. A lovely soft, warm smell. A little bit of apple esters. Deliciously toasty brown flavors, a touch of yeasty tartness to keep it lively. Substantial palate, toasty finish. I went to the Turf for the White Horse Guv’nor, which just showed up. But this one stole the show. A perfect winter’s eve pint.

Light brown and flat in appearance. Has a distinct flowery aroma. Taste like sweet rice cakes with hints of pear. Finishes dry. Lively carbonation. One of my favorites.

Cask Conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Brown to red beer with big head. This is a full fruity malty beer, blackberry and oak barrel type flavours. There is a certain smoothing toffeeness with an aromatic hop flavour overlayed. A good example of an English Strong Ale, as long as it is cask.

Cask-conditioned. Rich malt and dark fruit aroma. Sweet flavours abound along with nuts and oaky pipe tobacco. Warming alcohol finish.

A difficult beer to categorise. Somewhere between a premium bitter and a strong ale. More chewy fruit than you’d normally find in a bitter. Quite dark tawny colour. Plums and damsons in the aroma. Burnt caramel, molasses and toffee in the flavour but you couldn’t call it sweet. There’s a sour edge and hops coming through strongly, which provides an interesting counterpoint. Solid malt backbone. Complex, with lots of strands woven together skilfully. Very appealing. Cask (handpump), The Eclipse, Winchester.

I have had this regularly and it’s almost always a decent beer. Light brown very flavourful bitter, plenty of malt and good bitterness, decent finish. Very good beer.