White Grumpy Guvnor

Brewed by Edge / White
Style: Bitter
Bexhill, England

Serve in English pint

Cask, handpump at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 26-07-10 Pours reddy amber with off-white creamy head. This is a fairly standard bitter, served a touch warm, its safe on the maltiness and bitterness front, some caramel shows, its fine. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1

500ml bottle. Eye-wateringly carbonated after the 2 US beers I just saw off, but most definitely not without its charms. Pours a mellow, honeyed brass with an uneven, fine, well-retained whip of head. Juicy aroma dragging in botanicals, fresh grassy hop (despite being date-expired), dried apricots- in short, a right old sniffer. Mouth gritty citrus, tang of both orange and apple peel, flick of ash, creamy digestive linger. Top BC English of a kind I’ve not had for weeks.

Cask (gravity dispense) at Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 3 December 2009. Clear bronze colour. Decent condition. Decent traditional style best bitter. Reasonably dry. Moderate earthy hops. Smattering of sweet malt.

Cask gravity at Pig’s Ear BF 09. Amber colour, very thin off white head. A yeasty aroma. Pretty decent bitter in mouth, decent biscuit, very good bitter..

A Mes rate: Cask at Fringe. Golden brown with a slight white head. Aroma is not too great. Diacetyl and slight sweaty feet. Just about tolerable. Flavour is much better with some nice tart and dry hoppage a little grapefruit and a dusty dry finish.