Tap East JWB (James Wilson Bitter)

Brewed by Tap East
Style: Bitter
London, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at the brewpub, London. Pours clear, red-brown with a fine, white foam head. Toasty leafy nose, some brown bread. Great flavor, some dry and toasty brown bread and sugar, bitter leaves, earth and grass. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Good condition. Dry finish, dark doughy toast, brown bread, leafy bitters, hints of baking cocoa, light earth. Extremely solid stuff. Not at all flashy, just does the little things well. Tons of character packed into this 3.8% brown bitter.

Cask conditioned handpump Tap East London 08/09/12. A dark brown coloured headless beer. A sweet and chewy malty, slightly nutty beer. An old fashioned brown bitter with reasonable flavours.

Cask at Tap East - 06/09/12. Clear copper with a minimal off-white head that soon cleared to nothing. Not a good looking beer - appeared flat and lifeless. Malt forward nose, grain, a little cheese. Malt flavour with a little toffee and slightl mineral tones. Medium bodied and moderate carbonatio leading to a bitter finish. Looked crap but turned out being a half decent bitter!

Cask @ Tap East. Deep amber color with a thick creamy head. The nose is sugary twigs and caramel, some cherries. The taste is red apple bitterness and grains. Honey. Bitter dry finish. Light and smooth. Easy-drinking like th 3.8% abv suggests. OK.

On cask @ the brewpub. Nice looking clear amber body with a moderate white head. Aroma has caramel malt and some fruity and floral hop aroma. Flavor is mild caramel malt, fruity and moderate bitter. Medium body and medium aftertaste with sweet malt and a light pleasant bitterness. A decent but quite average bitter.

4th May 2012
On tap at Tap East. Clear amber beer, residual white head. Light palate, dry. Mild mild malt with fairly bitter hops (Williamette says brewer Jim Wilson). A little juicy citrus. Semi dry finish with lasting bitterness. Good flavour for it’s modest abv (3.8%) but a little thin.

Cask@Tap East, Stratford, London. Copper colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel, mild toast, some toffee and nice floral and grassy hops to it. Flavour is caramel, floral, wooden and quite sweet maltyness with a gentle bitterness in the finish.