Whittingtons Summer Pale Ale (SPA)

Brewed by Whittingtons
Style: Bitter
Newent, England

Serve in English pint

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36th CAMRA Cotswold beer festival (July 2012) in the lovely 15th century Tithe Barn: the setting for my tasting of this beer. Gravity poured half-pint: I’ll try and be kind to this, but with so many flavoursome beers at the festival this Pale Ale paled into insignificance because of its bland and feeble character. It poured a light gold with a slight haze and a head of thin white foam. The aroma was weak: grass and floral notes maybe. The taste was also difficult to find: hints of hop and pale malts mixed in an old yeast container and washed out with too much water. Body and mouth feel were light (to say the least): if it had been the first beer I’d sampled it might have been OK, but it wasn’t and it wasn’t.

Cask, The Salmon, Leicester. Hazy gold with a white foam. Aromas are stewed apple with light pear and lemon. Fairly herbal with base caramel and honey. Yeast with some woodiness. Flavours are sweet white grape with apple and biscuit. Dry, yeasty and woody with pepper and a fruity lemon bitterness to finish. Some detergent on the aftertaste. OK.

Pleasingly fresh nose with honey, citrus and some floral notes. pours medium gold with some sediment and a weakish head. Flavour is pleasant as well and follows the nose, adding a gentle bitter finish. A refreshing. simple and workmanlike beer, if a touch too simple and uninspiring.

Bottle on 4/6/41. Yeast and a hint of soy sauce in the nose. Golden and quite fizzy looking. Tasted a little stale and not impressed.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. aroma is fruit, citrus, grass, hop, malt. Flavour is hop, fruit, citrus, brett, grass. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium orange yellow color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, citrus, spicy hops, peppery hops. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110415]

Bottle 500ml @ fonefan
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, wheat and some brett. Taste is light sweet and light bitter. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle @ Ulfborg Easter Gathering, 2011. Pours hazy golden with a small off white head. Citrus peel, barnyard and hints of brett. Medium, dry and smooth palate.

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. A beer that pours with a few micro-floaties in an else clear, golden body. Small, white head. There’s some brett-like aromas here, slighlty citrusy and barnyardish, with a grassy, citrus-peel like hoppyness and some malts. Hints of black pepper. The flavor has some pepper, along with brett and bitterness. Medium body, quite dry. A long finish is more or less like the initial flavor, nice and yummy. A beer that might not be intentionally bretted, but it’s sure nice. 110415

Bottle @ FOneFan. Clear pale golden with small white head. Flavour is malt, sweet, hops, bitter and flower.