Wickwar Cotswold Way

Brewed by Wickwar
Style: Bitter
Wickwar, Gloucester, England

Serve in English pint

Cask at Market Porter, London. Amber/orange beer, small but lasting offwhite head. Malty fruity aroma. Fruity grape flavor with some hops.

Cask at the Pembury Tavern. Pours a clear, light orange with very little head. Honey and caramel malts in the aroma. Flavor is nicely balanced, with bready malts and mild bitterness. Subtle caramel sweetness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes bready and lightly hoppy. Quintessential bitter I would say. Nice beer.

[500ml bottle supplied by ChrisP] Pours a thin-looking amber colour, aromas are malty, with a touch of hops. Palate is watery, with some caramel. Insipid. Not bad, but not great [13102008]

50cl bottle from Tesco, Reading. Chestnut brown with a fast fading loose cream head; sweet malt aroma; sickly sweet stale malt flavour with a soapy mouthfeel and some weak hops. Rather unpleasant.

UPDATED: NOV 10, 2009 Not BC. Clear chestnut with a thinning off white slick. Caramel, toasty grain, rust, chocolate, salt water and rye bread aroma. Thinnish with notes of cream, milk chocolate, hazelnut and caramel. Slight soapiness in the finish, with clean bready afters. Brown ale down to the clear bottle. Pleasant.

reddish copper with a thin head. Aroma of fruit and malt. Tastes of fruit and malt with a hint of hops fairly smooth

bottle, Waitrose Abergavenny. Nearly clear amber colour with a mid-sized head. Toffee and lots of malt, slightly grainy. Pleasantly hoppy in the lingering finish.

Not bad at all, but this brewery tends to do beers with a little bread taste. I like it a lot.