The Civil Life British Bitter

Brewed by The Civil Life Brewing Company
Style: Bitter
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint

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Sample at Martin City Brewing Co. Pours a clear yellow color. Aroma of grain. Flavor is sweetarts, grain. Finish is slightly sweet.

Tap @ The Civil Life. Pours a fairly clear, golden orange appearance with an off white head. Bright herbal, citrus, earthy, English hoppy nose. Honey, light diacetyl, a bit citrusy, herbal, straw flavor. Pretty tasty.

On tap at The Civil Life. Pours a golden orange color with white head. Bitter, grainy, slight hoppy flavor. I’m not a fan of bitters, but this is pretty good.

Draft at the brewery. A bit of haze in the golden brew. A small off white layer leaves lacing. This has a nice creamy feel. Soft fruit,, grain, gentle hops, a bit of honey, mild bitterness that grows. Quite nice and the low ABV is a bonus.

UPDATED: DEC 3, 2012 Pint draft at the Martin City Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is a clear golden orange, with a small off white head. The aroma is grainy rough malt, a bit of iced tea character and spicy floral hops fainter in the back. The taste is mostly the malt, lightly sweet, grainy rough, and more of the iced tea type flavor. The hops are present towards the end, giving it some floral and drying out the finish. The palate is medium to light bodied, lower carbonation level and the drier finish. Straight forward, clean, easy drinking beer. Hit the spot.

On tap. Comes a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma of malt, hops, and yeast. Taste is caramel malt, grass, florals, and bread. Not very bitter. Easy to drink.

UPDATED: JAN 6, 2013 Tasted on tap at brewpub in nonic half-pint glass. It poured a nice orange color with a little chill haze, thin but persistent white head and lots of lace. 100% true-to-style aromas and flavors: malty, biscuity, nutty, great tangy balance of Centennial and EKG hops, earthy, flowery, citrusy, with distinctly English fruity ale yeast esters. American bittering hops (not too much grapefruit) + English aroma hops = best of both worlds. Low-medium body and carbonation, bready and well-rounded mouthfeel, very crisp snap at the finish. Nicely done. I’d love to taste a cask-conditioned version.

Deep golden color, floral-grassy hop nose, moderately bitter, dry on the finish. Simple, addictive, and too few like it.

Tap at brewpub October 2011-pours lite orange with a small soapy white fluffy head. nose is sweet and grain husks-more like a mild than a bitter. even though it was very husky, it was in the pure grain, not a dms type of nose. flavors are grain husks, bread and lite bitter hops and i mean lite. for a bitter this is very mild. a decent sessionable low hop beer.

(draught) light copper with off white head. Light malt and slightly herbal/grassy hops aroma. Flavor was light grassy hops and biscuit malt. Really nice session beer.