Thornbridge / Kernel Burton Ale

Brewed by Thornbridge
Style: English Strong Ale
Bakewell, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Cask at BBF 2011 courtesy of Dom, thank you sir! Clear dark amber, thick white head. Aroma of flowers, butterscotch, light spice. Taste is sweet and dry caramel. Very nice.

Cask Conditioned handpump Mr Foleys Leeds. A chestnut coloured bert with a big whtish head and lacing. Jammy fruit abounds. Very malty. Some hedgerow hoppiness. A big chewy, perhaps over chewy body. Good bitterness at the end. It’s OK but nowt special.

Cask, gravity at Boreft Beer Festival, De Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands, 24.09.11 Pours amber with a slight orangey hue to it, good clarity. Initially quite spicy with little wafts of spiciness coming back down my nostrils. This is lovely, it has a great balance of bitter & sweetness, the Goldings hops come across really well lightly lemony but showing throughout. I really liked this it’s a collaborative corker from Thornbridge & Kernel! A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8

(Gravity cask at White Horse, Parson’s Green, London, 25 Nov 2011) Brownish amber colour with brief, bubbly head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of citrus, dried fruit and earthy hops. Malty, fruity taste with dried fruit, citrus and a generous earthy/citric bitterness in a long finish. More than medium body, slightly sweetish. Tasty and quite well balanced. Very nice.

Pours copper with a beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel and fruity notes. Flavour is malt, fruit, light hop and alcohol.

Sampled at Borefts Beer Festival @ De Molen, Bodegraven. Clear dark orange / light red color. Smell sweet, slightly hoppy. Taste sweet, some bitter especially in the finish. Average carbonation, medium body.

Sample at Borefts Beer Festival 2011. Pours a clear and brown beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malt, caramel, fruit and biscuit. The flavor follows the nose with additional sweetness. The palate is sweetness with some bitterness. Overall an average beer.

Cask at CP&K. It pours deep mahogany brown, with a thick bubbly off-white head. The nose is wood, fruity berry, sherry/port and warming spice. The taste is chocolate, fruity tang, bitter-sweet, wood, big hop bitterness, sherry, raisin, fig, red grape, spice and alcohol warmth with a dry-woody finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. A tasty, hoppy old ale. Interesting.

On draught at the Boreft Beer Festival, 2011. Pours a red colour with a lacy white head. Aroma of caramel, toffee and alcohol. Similar flavours. A little thin and dry with a warming alcohol finish. A little woody also. Not bad.

Cask at Cask Pub and Kitchen. Named "Coalition Burton Ale". Deep brown color. Nicely boisterous tan head. Taste is of roasted coffee and black cherry. Sweet taste. Very nice, though I don’t know much about the Burton Ale style!