South Hams Eddystone

Brewed by South Hams
Style: Bitter
Kingsbridge, England

Cask at Merton Summer Beer and Cider Festival 17-07-09 Pours the colour of warm urine with white head. There is a wonderful fruity and also confectionery nose to this beer, there is something else on the nose that I just cannot put my finger on. Nice hoppiness and there is plenty of fruit to carry things on, nice beer. A8 A4 F7 P4 Ov14 3.7

bottle from Dart’s Farm. Hazy golden yellow with a huge white head, very persistent. Hoppy-fruity nose. Full-bodied, bitter-sweet. Solid malty base with lovely hop flavours and cirtus fruit character. A delicious bitter. Lively carbonation.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Coventry Beer Festival.
Gold with a slight brown tinge, a thin white head and probably the best condition of any that I had at the festival. Big citric, torpical hops and some good malt in the background. Big grapefruit in the flavour. The hops are caried really well by the excellent bready malt. Slight fatty note at the finish but the rest is so good I’m quite happy to let it slide. Bags of character and flavour. Superbly drinkable. Only the Brits can make beer like this. Bloody excellent.

Cask conditioned at Coventry Beer Festival ’08. Gold with white bubbly head. It has to be said that this was in great condition, lovely fruity aroma, peaches and apricot. The body is fruity, sl sweet malts, again with a peachy note, then a blast of citrusy lemony hops, a really decent and lasting beer, that I could have spent the afternoon drinking, but still not my beer of the Festival, great though.