Timothy Taylor Landlord (Cask)

Brewed by Timothy Taylor
Style: Bitter
Keighley, England

Serve in English pint

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This can be so variable. On form, it is great. Kept badly this is a poor pint. Fortunately mein host (at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Angel) kept it well. It pours a nice orang/gold colour, with a decent ’Northern’ head of off white foam....and you still get this, even though we are now in the South. The aroma is of crisp British hops - nothing tropical here, but still fruity. On the palate, this is crisp and fresh, but with a good counterbalance of sweetness to balance out the (what is for a ’traditional’ British hop) quite complex hop profile. As I say, when it’s good, it’s very good.

Great bitter. I always get excited when I see this offered on cask. Its soft mouthfeel and easy drinking nature make it the perfect session beer.

Cask at the Prince of Wales, Aberdeen. It pours golden amber with a medium white head. The nose is fairly restrained...dough, hay, wood, earth and touch of sweetness. The taste is dry straw, grass, pithy citrus, wood, spice, earth, decent bitterness and some soap with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Pretty so-so... an ok bitter but there are many better out there.

light chesnut brown with a persistent creamy head. Nutty sweet malty aroma. Crisp zesty hop finish. Well balanced and very drinkable./

4.3% deep gold colour with a good head, malt aroma, fruit, hoppy flavour fairly dry and bitter, also good in bottles. It was lovely outside the Grosvenor Hotel at the top of Robin Hood’s Bay, on a warm September afternoon.

On cask at the Atholl hotel, pours a dark amber with no head and some medium lacing around the edges, aroma is sweet, malty easy Smelling taste of sweet malt, decent 'real ale' yeasty notes, nothing special but very easy drinking via Beer Buddy

cask at Bulls Head, Meriden
Pours clear golden amber with sweet malt and slight lemon nose. Dry, clean bitterness, biscuit malt.

Pours darkish amber, smooth and almost creamy. Fist taste of the day has a sweet fruity snap with citrus notes that dies off and tranforms into a hoppy full bodied flavour. Landlord is a lovely Ale one of my top 5. Its only down fall is it almost too drinkable. Easily a 7-8 Pinter. Note to self: must exercise restraint when drinking Landlord. The only pub round my way to have it on pump is the White Horse in Sandway Maidstone Kent. Luckly a 10 min walk for me. Rates 3 out of my top 5!!!

On cask at Babelas, Leicester. I haven’t had a pint of Landlord for ages, I used to think it was nice but had recently been into more "fashionable" hoppier beers and had got fed up with people either raving about it or "it’s boring" or even worse "it’s not what it was" But you know what it was delicious tonight, a grapefruit smell/taste that I never detected before ( I have given up smoking since last time I had it- about 18 months ago by the way). Really nice. AND it’s from Yorkshire like me.

On cask at the Royal Oak, Wirkswirth. AMber color, good foam. Good fruitiness Medium body & complexity. Well balanced and enjoyable