Tring Brookman’s

Brewed by Tring
Style: Bitter
Tring, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at JDW Charlie Hall; clear medium brown pour frothy white head, bready malt with a bit of fruit.

Cask@moonunderwater, wolverhampton. Dark chestnut colour with large head and good lacing. The perfect looking winter ale especially since it is snowing at the moment. Aroma is a little malts with dark fruits. Taste is also malts, mild dark fruits and biscuit. The body is thinner than it looks. On first taste i thought this could be a 4.0 but as I tasted more it slightly dropped. A very good beer that unfortunately finished in an anticlimax.

Cask at The Gate Clock, JDW - Greenwich, London. Pours clear brown with a fine, white foam head. Toasted leaves and brown bread on the nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with light dirt, toffee, sweet brown bread. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Moderately sweet finish with some grainy brown bread, faint dry toffee, toast, ligth earth. Actually pretty darn alright. A classical and, as such, very drinkable bitter.

Cask handull at County Hotel JDW Ashford. Clear deep brown with lasting beige head. Fruity malty beer. Like a fruity digestive biscuit. Juicy hedgerow fruits. I thought pretty good. Yes drinkable. Ok condition little bit of sting on finish

Deep dark brown ale but clear which makes its thick creamy head stand out. It’s a smooth winter style ale with a very pleasant fusion of hops and wild fruits.

This review is of a hand pulled cask pint taken in the well respected ‘Dove’ in North London. Originally a one off special brewed in 2010 it is now an occasional brew coming out during the winter months. The pump clip claimed it was a ’Winter Ale’. The beer comes a dark, deep red/brown, a dull chestnut colour I suppose: on top was a cream coloured foaming head of bubbles. Not a huge nose to my pint, some maltiness but very little of anything really. The taste was of roasted malts, some grain type notes and a gentle hop finish: I was expecting a bit more for a winter brew to be honest, especially on seeing the colour and body depth it hinted at. Nothing wrong with it, but I was a hoping for more (of everything).

UPDATED: JAN 6, 2013 1) Cask handpull, Whitefriars, Coventry, 25/02/12. Chestnut with a level cream top Red berry tang, slight hopcone aroma, apple. Berries and biscuit, stillness, slight cherry stone. Light raisin. Average. 636312. 2) Cask handpull, The Felix, Nuneaton, 06/01/13. Pale chestnut with a slim white collar leaving thick, egg white lace. Slight aniseed, caramel and rust nose. Attractive crushed biscuit malt; hints of berries and gentle hop spice. Drying finish. Decent bog standard bitter. 747413.

Cask conditioned handpump Coach & Horses Wellingborough. A dark brown coloured beer with a white bubbly head. A malty fruity beer. Chocolate malt notes throughout. Nice berry fruits too. A decent beer which must verge in being a mild.

Cask conditioned at The Lamb & Flag, Oxford. Chestnut with white head. Fruity, slightly sweet, malty beer, quite grainy in character. There is a late, leafy bitterness, reasonable without too much excitement.

Cask at the Market Porter. Had this twice at the Porter, first time nice complex and clean flavour, second pint 2 days later, I agree with the last review may have been on the turn