Tomos Watkin OSB / Old Style Bitter (Bottle)

Brewed by Tomos Watkin
Style: Bitter
Swansea, Wales

Serve in English pint

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   update pic

Bottle from K&G. Nice malty ale. Aromas of caramel, nuts, with hints of liquorice. Taste is sweet, with light bitteness, and average length. Palate is velvety, and medium bodied. Brown, with a frothy head.

500ml bottle. Pours a clear copper amber, with a small off-white head, which does not last very well, but leaves reasonable lace. The aromas has some candied fruit and toffee notes and faint floral hops. Floral hops up front lead into some plum and candied fruit notes. Toffee comes in towards the finish. A sweeter-style bitter, but nevertheless a very satisfying beer at the end of a very long day.

Brown 500ml bottle, by Hurns Brewery, same address as above, but a brewery name change? Drank on 25th March 2009, best before the end of May 2009. Poured into UK pint sleeve glass. Bright and clear amber coloured body with a huge foaming off-white head. Plenty of carbonisation, well loads of bubbles rising through the beer anyway. Lighter in colour than I expected (old style bitter just made me think dark and musty). Good malty, beery aroma. It may well be Welsh but it has all the hall marks of a good English Bitter, yeast and hops can also be sniffed as you drink this very pleasant beer. Good flavours, of all things beery. This ale tastes like an ale, crisp, refreshing and clean. Wheat has been used, but I couldn’t detect any, just malted barley on the grain front. Very drinkable and one of the best beers I’ve had from Wales, ever.

Aroma is complex fruit and malty, similar to an ESB. The flavor is similar to the aroma with a hint of nuttiness, and a decent hoppy finish. Solid ale, close to an ESB in flavor.

Half litre bottle, $2 closeout @ Binny’s, Bolingbrook. I can only guess one of Binny’s distributors is shedding some brands from their portfolio, but this gives me a chance to try my first REAL Welch beer—InBev brewing Murphy’s Irish Stout there hardly worth counting. Fruity smell under the cap that I didn’t expect in a bitter. In glass it has an alcohol smell, bit of cough drop, so this may be a bit old. Light brown color, filtered clear, under a thin head. First thing I notice upon tasting is that there’s low carbonation, per style. Fruity ale taste. Despite the alcohol smell, there’s no burn on the tongue. Certainly a nice pub drink. Some citrus that may come from hop, or a bit of staling. Certainly worth revisiting if I get a chance.

Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet malty, light fruity and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 030710

This was a pretty nice bitter that I enjoyed watching the Jets beat the Patriots. MMM tasty.

Bottle. Pours just like the excellent photo, orange-amber with a nice creamy top. The aroma is caged up, I think, barely discernible. The beer drinks with a distinct breadiness, thick like a slice of pumpernickel, musty and gamey. Quite the drinkable bitter. (#4006, 10/31/2010)

A pretty solid ruby colored bitter. Fairly balanced and a little bit of caramel. Serving: Bottle

Bottle. Dark amber colour medium off-white head. Aroma and flavour of malt, caramel, hops, hay and fruit.