Theakston Grouse Beater (Cask)

Brewed by Theakston
Style: Bitter
Masham, England

Serve in English pint

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cask at standing order JDW ... amber ... thin white head ... light sweet floral fruits ... floral hop fruits ... nive but very floral ....

Cask @ Counting House, JDW. Clear dark golden colour, white head. Aroma is fruity. Flavour is very, very sweet, bubblegum, blackcurrant. Low carbonated. Sweet and sticky finish. Very weird. Not good.

Cask, The Highcross, Leicester. Golden with an off-white foam. Aromas are strawberry fruitiness with perfumed toilet bleach. Floral with pine, lemon and peach. Flavours are sweet caramel with mellow mixed berries. Fruity hops on the finish. OK.

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 11/04/10. A plain weird beer. Fruity, sweet and synthetic - it reminded me of the fruit salad chewing sweets from my childhood. Some tropical and berry fruit notes too, colliding in an odd mix, with sweet caramel and air freshener sweetness. Not an experience I would want to repeat.

Hand pulled at the Billiard Hall, West Bromwich. Smell is unremarkable and colour is a yellowy brown - like when I used to have blonde highlights in my hair a few years ago. Flavour is like bubblegum, or more specifically that blue bubblegum flavoured tip-top drink that used to be available at my primary school disco. Some lemon flavour, perhaps other fruits too. This is light on the tongue and just plain weird.

Cask. This is what evil must taste like. Hands down the worst beverage that I have ever drunk, and I’m not just talking about beers. If you ever wondered what insecticide must taste like, I can well imagine it tastes like Grouse Beater. Weird blacckurrant and rasperry notes in the smell as well as in the aroma, and thoroughly synthetic otherwise. Yecch! In fairness to Theakston I should mention that I tried the rest of their range during this year’s Great British Beer Festival at Earl’s Court, and with the exception of a similarly peculiar beer named "Old Peculier", they were all perfectly adequate.

Cask @ GBBF 2008. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish fruity aroma. Sweetish malty fruity berry flavor. Has a sweetish malty fruity finish.

Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Amber with a small white head. Remarkable sweet aroma of boiled sweets and my dad’s hair oil c.1955. Odd ashy cardboard taste with that sweet, fruity blackcurrant or strawberry flavour persisting. Not much bitterness. Very odd. I’m on the fence about this one.

Cask served at a perfect drinking temperature at the Theakston Brewery Bar, GBBF 08. Golden body. No head. Dark fruity smell. Taste of strawberries with additional hints of apricot. Watery texture and a very average bitter (half pint shared with Geir, 007.08.2008).

Cask. Creamy off-white lasting head. Hazy golden body. Fruity flavor that is hard to distinguish. Pineapple peaches raspberries flavor. Low carbonation, short aftertaste. Very sweet overall impression.