Wychwood Fiddlers Elbow (Pasteurised)

Brewed by Wychwood (Marstons plc)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Witney, England

Serve in English pint

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’The last night of the Proms’ is on the television, so what better beer to watch it than Fiddlers Elbow? Brown 500ml bottle, best before March 2008, drank Sept 2007: poured into one of my Franziskaner Weissbier glasses, well it is brewed with wheat. Light red in colour, an orange hue to it, sparkling and clear with bubbles ripping through towards the full, half-inch thick off-white head. The aroma is all about sweet caramel, very strong in deed. The taste is a bit of a let down, caramel flavours, but not much else. As the beer warmed some lemony, citrus notes did arrive and the sweetness gave way to a tartness I didn’t take too. I have had this beer on draught (cask) and it was a lot better than this bottle. A strange beer to review, fairly weak mouthfeel, but there is something there, difficult to explain, my vocabulary obviously isn’t up to describing it.

Poured a cloudy golden color from the bottle. Aromas of malt, bread, anise, and some bubblegum. Flavor is the same, with some yeast in the back end, interesting beer overall.

16.9 oz bottle pours hazy amber with a white head. Aroma and taste of sweet malts and a bit of yeast. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Das Bier ergießt sich rötlich gelb, mit leichten Orange – Stich in mein Glas. Es bildet sich leider nur wenig Schaum. Geruchlich dominiert ein süßliches Hopfenaroma. Der Antrunk ist anfangs ebenfalls süßlich, aber dann kommt ein angenehmes, mildes Hopfenaroma durch, der Abgang zeigt sich hingegen ein wenig säuerlich. Wirkt trotz höherem Alkoholgehalt wesentlich milder als andere Wychwood Biere. Trotzdem noch ein absoluter Leckerbissen!!!

Pours a murky golden/olive color. Aroma is of malt, lactic, dough, bubblegum, anise, and bark. Very different. Flavor is of barley, wheat, fig, grain, slight citrus, and yeast. Leaves a sweeter yeasty finish. Different.

Hazy orangish brown with floaties light head, nice mild malt aroma hop aroma is not much there. Soft mouthfeel with mellow citrus fruit hops very lightly sweet finishing tart with a tiny tip of the tounge bittering lightly drying with english character Dont really care for this hop/english finishing flavor thoughThere is also a medicinal/mineral flavor in the finish.An ok beer to have ocasionally.

UPDATED: FEB 20, 2012 Bottle @ Lorry in Oslo. Amber colour with a white head. Fresh taste and lots of hops in the flavour. Hoppy, fruity and moderate malty aroma. Almost a perfect British ale.

Deep golden color with a medium sized white head. Fruity and malty aroma. Sweet malty, caramel flavor.

500ml bottle. Amber colour. Light body, taste is maltiness and sweetness. It was somewhat odd, but enjoyable.

Cloudy hazy amber colored beer, almost no head. Not a very nice smell. Average taste, low to medium carbo and body. Decent.