Crucible Best
Sheffield Brewery Co.

Tasted by a half pint at the Devonshire Arms in Sheffield, the previous Ward Brewery's brewery tap. Handpulled w/ the aid of a sparkler. By the suggestion of the name, I have a feeling that it's named after the famous Crucible Theatre in central Sheffield, where all the important snooker matchs take place.

A: pours a dark amber colour, coming with a very creamy off-white head that lasts just brilliantly (due to the sparkler, of course); low carbonation.
S: pear-drop, caramelised sugar, plus a rather intense aroma of fruity hops, decorated with a thick buttery note at the back. Pretty balanced and enticing for an English Bitter.
T: tasty-fruity + semi-roasty malts and bitter-sweet tea-leaves abound, backed by a good backbone of hop bitterness... lingering tea-leafy bitterness lends a superb length to the aftertaste.
M&D: pretty light-bodied, smoothly-textured as it is freshly served, and the deep bitterness is indeed a key for this low gravity beer to punch above its weight~~