York Yorkshire Terrier Bitter (Bottle)

Brewed by York (Mitchells Hotels)
Style: Bitter
York, England

Serve in English pint

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500ml bottle in York National Railway Museum restaurant. Clear golden amber colour, foam white head leaving some lacing and a malty aroma. Taste is malt, toasty, with a spicy bitterness and slight orange rind citrus tangy, metallic note. Medium body and carbonation. OK.

Bottle. Golden amber colour with a foamy head. Aroma of citrus oranges is quite prominent. Taste is citrus, hops and a touch of grapefruit you find in American IPAs. Smooth on the palate, but a little too thin. This is a very good beer for a bottled version will have to try the cask which hopefully is even better.

Bottle from myBrewerytap.com. Pours clear golden with a big creamy beige head. Aroma of cellary malts. Taste is light astringent, sweet malty, some butterscotch, short end.

March 2010: Nice touch: Where I’d expect to see the best before date (on the top of the cap), are the words, ’WALK THE DOG’. The brown 500ml bottle conditioned beer was poured slowly into a UK pint sleeve glass. A terracotta orange body with a white foaming head stared back at me after the pouring. The body almost clear, just the hint of a semi-haze, that is because I poured the sediment in too. Hops and malts hit the nose, more hops than malts. The hops win in the taste stakes too, the beer is dry and bitter because of the hop content with all the other ingrediants being pushed into the background. A good, well made beer, a little too hoppy for my own tastes, but not enough for a ’hophead’ type I should imagine.

Orange colour of a dark honey with a large full soapy lasting eggwhite head. Lemon cirtus hops, honey, and malt and a biscuit toasted. Medium creamy body. Sweet medium toasted malt,woody taste like bark (no pun inteded). Grainy with a citrus lemony finish. Feels processed.

Gold with bubbles and a thin white head. Hoppy citrus with mild grapefruit. Quite a nice sharp bitter taste. There’s a little sweetness, but the bitter dominates - not in an unpleasant way. Nothing special, but does what it does and does it well.

Bottle from colleagues. Clear light brown gold colour thick lasting beige head. Pasteurised toffee aroma. Some tea like hops some toffee malt but the pasteurisation kills this beer. Yep odd mix of malt and hop too. Nit unpleasant but the boiled sweet emptiness at the heart of a pasteurised beer is there.

distinctly average. mild hop aroma. bitterish finish. smelt like average bottled beer, looked like average bottled beer, tasted like bottled beer. it was average bottled beer

UPDATED: OCT 14, 2011 Bottle. Amber body, thin white head. Quite sulphurous which is a trait I can’t recall it having before. Hops and malt, fruity, caramel. Bitter. Dry finish. Moderate carbonation. Good bitter. 6 3 7 3 13 Rerate. Amber body, thin white head. Grass, biscuity, apricot jam, sulphur. Bitter. Bitter finish. A little oily on the palate. Moderate carbonation. 6 3 6 3 11