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Arkells 3B (Pasteurised)

Arkell's Brewery
Swindon, Wiltshire
Beer style: Bitter - Ordinary / Best
Ref: ratebeer.com May2024

Common descriptors are
Filtered & pasteurised can and 500ml bottles. Also available in keg.
NOTE: Only ratings for the pasteurised version should go here. The cask version has its own entry.
Arkell’s Best Bitter Beer, as it was originally known, was first brewed in 1910 and has been affectionately known as BBB or 3B by customers ever since. (One Swindon landlord will tell you that ’BBB’ stands for "Big Boy’s Beer"). Today, 3B is renowned by Britain’s beer lovers as a superb, amber brew with a very distinctive taste and a sweet scent of malt beneath the hops. Pale malt makes up 88% of the dry ingredients along with 10% crystal malt and 2% sugar. According to the ’Real Ale Drinker’s Almanac’, 3B has "delicate, beautifully balanced malt and hop with lingering dry finish and hint of nut".