Flash
Leatherbritches Brewery

Tasted by a pint at the Evening Star, Brighton. Poured by a handpump w/o a sparkler.

A: golden in colour, clear and low in carbonation; the beer head comes thin but tight and creamy, with superb retention.
S: just like the other Leaterbritches’ ale – Owd Grumpy – that I tried yesterday, this beer is also packed with juicy fruity hops; the floral and grapefruity hops, as of American Williamette plus English Challenger, fill the nostrils, backed by a mild aroma of corn-ish grainy malts and plentiful bitter-sweet fresh hops to follow at the back. Overall, the nose is refreshing but profoundly hoppy.
T: speechless… just like Owd Grumpy, this beer shows an mighty input from fruity+flowery hops, with a lychee-ish and orangey fruitiness constantly at the back, while the tannic and chewy mouthfeel, as of crushed citrus-seeds and grape-stems, lends a tremendously lively and lengthy bitterness to the 3D aftertaste of hops, while the overall body gets a deepening depth from the beginning to the end.
M&D: juicy, more-ish, and superbly quaffable, this hoppy Blonde Bitter has a refreshing texture (benefiting from plentiful micro-scopic carbonation), a substantial body and depth, and a rather bold hoppy performance. As I was in the Evening Star yesterday, there is no mistaking that this cask was just put on tap today; thus, I feel so privileged to have tasted this nice hoppy brew at its prime. Long live real ales!!