Pale Beauty
Twickenham Fine Ales
- From:
- Twickenham Fine Ales
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 16.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 31, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 19, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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An elegant very pale ale, robustly hopped with aromatic varieties – Amarillo, Cascade and Chinook. It is extremely refreshing and dangerously drinkable. Unusually wheat accounts for 40% of the malt grist.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jonb5 from England
3/5 rDev -16.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -16.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pint at the Willow Walk JDW.
A: Bronze, clear, small head.
S: Quite malt, almost like a Euro Lager.
T: Chestnut, toffee, caramel.
M: Not much in the way of carbonation, smooth.
O: More of a beer for the cold weather, nothing really stood out.
Aug 31, 2016A: Bronze, clear, small head.
S: Quite malt, almost like a Euro Lager.
T: Chestnut, toffee, caramel.
M: Not much in the way of carbonation, smooth.
O: More of a beer for the cold weather, nothing really stood out.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
4.15/5 rDev +15.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.15/5 rDev +15.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Tasted at the Magpie&Crown, Brentford, W. London, on 2 September 2006. It turned out the freshest beer available that day.
A: dark yellow in colour, slightly murky, coming with a nice and sustaining white foamy head and low carbonation.
S: lovely grapefruity aroma and a touch of elderflowery scent upfront... a swirl brings out a lemony, dryish mineral/flint-stone note of dry white wine (e.g. Sauvignon Blanc)... slightly sulphurous at the back. Very pleasantly hoppy and fruity.
T: juicy grapefruits on top of a milder lychee-like fruity hoppy base, with a mild trace of lemony Sauvignon Blanc (exactly like on the nose) plus tropical fruity Gewürztraminer ... slowly leading towards a mildly spicy (Goldings-like), and grapefruit-zesty tangy bitterness lingering with a good depth. However, it doesn't stop here, no--a pinch of salt gives a kickback in the long aftertaste, with refreshingly biscuity maltiness to follow the main theme of hops. Very nice indeed...
M&D: refreshing on the mouthfeel, with lots of tiny fizziness to chew on the tongue... yet the hoppyness also renders a soothing and flavoursome palate. Overall, a very quaffable and nicely hoppy Blond Bitter--delicious!! I rarely drink more than a half pint of the same beer in a free house offering more than four micro-brews, yet I paid for 3 halves of this beer...
P.S. Only after writing this note at the pub did I gather from the brewery's website that it's actually brewed to be a wheat beer, with wheat malts constituting 40% of the grist!! Crikey!
Sep 19, 2006A: dark yellow in colour, slightly murky, coming with a nice and sustaining white foamy head and low carbonation.
S: lovely grapefruity aroma and a touch of elderflowery scent upfront... a swirl brings out a lemony, dryish mineral/flint-stone note of dry white wine (e.g. Sauvignon Blanc)... slightly sulphurous at the back. Very pleasantly hoppy and fruity.
T: juicy grapefruits on top of a milder lychee-like fruity hoppy base, with a mild trace of lemony Sauvignon Blanc (exactly like on the nose) plus tropical fruity Gewürztraminer ... slowly leading towards a mildly spicy (Goldings-like), and grapefruit-zesty tangy bitterness lingering with a good depth. However, it doesn't stop here, no--a pinch of salt gives a kickback in the long aftertaste, with refreshingly biscuity maltiness to follow the main theme of hops. Very nice indeed...
M&D: refreshing on the mouthfeel, with lots of tiny fizziness to chew on the tongue... yet the hoppyness also renders a soothing and flavoursome palate. Overall, a very quaffable and nicely hoppy Blond Bitter--delicious!! I rarely drink more than a half pint of the same beer in a free house offering more than four micro-brews, yet I paid for 3 halves of this beer...
P.S. Only after writing this note at the pub did I gather from the brewery's website that it's actually brewed to be a wheat beer, with wheat malts constituting 40% of the grist!! Crikey!
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