This one just doesnt really do it for me, its a bit heavy all round. Too strong tasting, even though its only 4.3% quite a filling beer its fair to say.

Cask @ Cockney’s, Aarhus.
[my 100th Bitter - my 7th style to reach a century]
Pours a super, deep red with a medium, creamy, white head. Great duration and fine lacing. Soft aroma, some butterscotch, light hoppiness, some malts and grassy and piney notes. Fine, low carbonation, okay mouthfeel. Flavour starts off pleasantly fruity, some strawberries, then light malty before a mild, hoppy, slightly dry finish. Okay.

Smell and initial taste slightly eggy - not in the sulphurous gone-off-beer kind of way, but more in the home-brew-sold-at-a-beer-festival kind of way. In fact, it has more than a hint of the illicit beer that my mate Neil made at university in a sack in his wardrobe! Once you get beyod the egginess, this is not a bad beer. It’s mid-brown, with a thin but lasting head. There is a good balance of sweet and bitter (possibly tending more towards the sweet side than many best bitters), a fair amount of maltiness, a little spice (pepper) and some red fruits (ripe cherries?). In a way it’s nice that Wells haven’t gone down the route of the other big ale brewers (Greene King, Marstons) and made their standard beer a cleaned-up, machine-tasting beer. This beer still tastes like it’s been made in someone’s wardrobe! However, the eggy smell that occassionally returns through your nostrils, coupled with dodgy guts the next day do sometimes make you think "hmmm... maybe modern breweing processes aren’t so bad after all". On the plus side, at least it does taste a bit different to the majority of bitters!

Cask at Young’s, London Amber pour with a macrobubble head. Malty aroma and mouthfeel Mildly bitter. A bit watery.