Best Bitter
Black Sheep Brewery PLC
- From:
- Black Sheep Brewery PLC
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
Ranked #102 - ABV:
- 3.8%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #49,150 - Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 10.74%
- Reviews:
- 20
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 24, 2025
- Added:
- Apr 24, 2003
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 7
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.36/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.36/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Half cask at the Piccadilly Tavern. Golden pour, small creamy head. Malty aroma and taste, notes of caramel, grainy, brown bread. Smooth as silky with some dryness creeping in at the finish.
Feb 18, 2025
Reviewed by Gatch from Massachusetts
3.75/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Freshly pulled pint at The Masons Arms in York along a section of the old city wall and on the canal. Really a lovely pub. And this is a lovely Bitter. Great malt profile, so smooth and easy, properly bitter and dry in the finish. A tasty ale in the sunshine on a beautiful day in York.
Mar 26, 2024
Reviewed by WoodBrew from Ohio
3.49/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
I tried a pint of this beer off the cask'er at a pub just outside the Derby train station. It poured a clear copper with cask white head that left a fine lace. The scent had bitter hop notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with typical english bitterness through the drink. The mouthfeel was medium in body but with cask condition "carbonation". Overall it was a good beer.
Jun 05, 2022
Reviewed by flyingpig from Scotland
3.39/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pint on cask in Ye Old Starre Inne, York (£5):
Copper tinged amber with a clear body & a creamy looking white about 0.5cm tall but holding really well. Malty with a kit of bitterness & earthy flavours, a really smooth body & slightly creamy finish with soft to little carbonation & a hint of biscuit in there too. There's a few earthy hops but a little too bitter for me really, very traditional though & better than expected for a cask.
May 13, 2022Copper tinged amber with a clear body & a creamy looking white about 0.5cm tall but holding really well. Malty with a kit of bitterness & earthy flavours, a really smooth body & slightly creamy finish with soft to little carbonation & a hint of biscuit in there too. There's a few earthy hops but a little too bitter for me really, very traditional though & better than expected for a cask.
Rated by Sludgeman from District of Columbia
3.52/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
On cask at the Cheshire Cheese. Very low hop bitterness, malty with no sweetness, nothing to write home about.
Sep 30, 2021
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.47/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Cask conditioned at The Mitre, Cambridge. Deep golden colour, low to none head. A decent session bitter, nothing wrong, nothing spectacular. Tolerably malty aroma and flavour with a decent hoppy finish.
Dec 30, 2020
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