White Heart of Rother

Brewed by Edge / White
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Bexhill, England

Serve in English pint

Bottle. My first from this brewery and quite an impressive debut. Golden with a small head. Well balanced and fruity with a full mouth feel. Some bitterness makes for a pleasant Beer.

Cask handpull, The Crown, Nuneaton. Muddy mid-brown, slim white head. Watery damp oak aroma with a rub of Crunchie. Some oaky softness on the palate; TCP, wholemeal toast, vague gelatinous fruit, maybe sultana. Hints of biscuit in the aftertaste. Dull.

Cask at the Eastbourne Beer Festival, 11th Oct 2008. Clear amber. Sweet & malty without being heavy. Lagery aroma, strangely. Slight roast malt hint. Decent bitterness at end.

Cask gravity at SIBA BF, Paddock Wood. Chestnut, thin off white head. Toffee, butter aroma. Oh dear, first diacetyl beer of the day. Some malt, but too much butter.

A Mes rate: cask at the Hop Farm festival.
Dirty orange brown with no head. Buttery diacetyl and malt aroma. Bland as hell flavour with some off fruit, no balance and more diacetyl in the finish. Pretty awful to be honest.

(Cask at Carpenter’s Arms, Marylebone, London, 26 April 2008) Chestnut colour with brief, off-white head. Malty, nutty nose with notes of dried fruit. Malty, nutty taste, fairly dry, with biscuity malt and dusty hops in the finish. A decent, middle-of-the-roadish bitter.

<a href=http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/177 First In Last Out, Hastings. Mostly a malty bitter - a little grubby, a little toffee, and some soaked hops. Pleasant enough.

Pint pulled at The Bell Inn in Rye (East Sussex), a very clear amber with a thin frothy head. Very strong roasted malt aroma with ripe cherries. Strong cherry and malt flavours again, smooth and easy on the palate.