Bretwalda
Greene King / Morland Brewery
- From:
- Greene King / Morland Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 4.1%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 10.05%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2010
- Added:
- Sep 05, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
4.3/5 rDev +13.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.3/5 rDev +13.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Clear 500ml bottle, best before the end of June 2010, drank before the end of Feb 2010. Poured into my 'Old Speckled Hen' vase shapped pint glass.
The body colour is a reddy/browny/dark amber, clear and clean looking. On top sat a well formed tan/off-white foaming head, plenty of bubbles rising through the body, looked good to be honest.
Toffee apple smells with some hop aromas coming through as the beer warmed in the glass.
Sweetish malt taste and feel at first, then a hop bitterness takes over as the mouth begins to dry. A soft flowery, English Summer Garden sort of feeling came over me as I drank the pint, really enjoyed it.
I am going to a Greene King tasting evening with Roger Protz in a few weeks, I hope this is on cask to try.
Greene King produce a vast number of beers for supermarkets, some cheap and not very good, this however I found very pleasant, easy to drink and interesting.
Feb 21, 2010The body colour is a reddy/browny/dark amber, clear and clean looking. On top sat a well formed tan/off-white foaming head, plenty of bubbles rising through the body, looked good to be honest.
Toffee apple smells with some hop aromas coming through as the beer warmed in the glass.
Sweetish malt taste and feel at first, then a hop bitterness takes over as the mouth begins to dry. A soft flowery, English Summer Garden sort of feeling came over me as I drank the pint, really enjoyed it.
I am going to a Greene King tasting evening with Roger Protz in a few weeks, I hope this is on cask to try.
Greene King produce a vast number of beers for supermarkets, some cheap and not very good, this however I found very pleasant, easy to drink and interesting.
Reviewed by soulgrowl from England
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Bright, clear garnet-brown with a large but short-lived parchment-colored head. The nose is full of tea and hard water, leafy and chlorinated. Rich and fruity and spicy on the palate, full of dates, raisins, Earl Grey, lemon, allspice, and bitter caramel with a firm, lingering tangy-bitter finish. Frothy and full and immaculately dry - a good choice for Chinese food and possibly curry. A pleasant and very robust ale; a welcome surprise that I'd like to try on cask.
Nov 09, 2009Reviewed by PartyBear from England
3.47/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: Amber in colour, with a fast fading small white head, and a moderate level of carbonation. 3
Aroma: There is a clear scent of the Greene King trademark grainy hops, smell very similar to the IPA. Light malty caramel, and hints of blackcurrant. 3.5
Taste: Lots of biscuity and baked bread malts at the front, with a some creamy buttery flavours. The taste starts savoury and then kicks through with a touch of sweet sugariness, before finishing with a faint bitterness that is short lived. 3.5
Mouthfeel: full bodied, with a creamy fluffy texture. The carbonation is nicely balanced. 3.5
Drinkability: Another solid offering from Greene King, although, it's not groundbreaking stuff, just safe and reliable. At 4.1% it's less of a session beer than their IPA, and in my opinion not as complex with the flavours. 3.5
Oct 08, 2009Aroma: There is a clear scent of the Greene King trademark grainy hops, smell very similar to the IPA. Light malty caramel, and hints of blackcurrant. 3.5
Taste: Lots of biscuity and baked bread malts at the front, with a some creamy buttery flavours. The taste starts savoury and then kicks through with a touch of sweet sugariness, before finishing with a faint bitterness that is short lived. 3.5
Mouthfeel: full bodied, with a creamy fluffy texture. The carbonation is nicely balanced. 3.5
Drinkability: Another solid offering from Greene King, although, it's not groundbreaking stuff, just safe and reliable. At 4.1% it's less of a session beer than their IPA, and in my opinion not as complex with the flavours. 3.5
Reviewed by fullsweep from England
4.09/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
4.09/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
500 mL clear bottle poured into a pint glass.
Rich, thick head of off-white foam emerges on a slow pour. Ruby-red, transparent beer underneath.
Smells very interesting, picking up some sour/bitter aromas leaving me very interested in how it's going to taste.
While the label says "fruity and spicy," both of those flavors are downplayed. Overall, it's quite a mild brew, but very nice nonetheless. The flavor isn't outstanding (in the sense of being something really dramatic), but it's very refreshing and incredibly pleasant.
M&D: very drinkable, pleasant beer. Light to moderate carbonation. Would definitely drink again.
Sep 21, 2009Rich, thick head of off-white foam emerges on a slow pour. Ruby-red, transparent beer underneath.
Smells very interesting, picking up some sour/bitter aromas leaving me very interested in how it's going to taste.
While the label says "fruity and spicy," both of those flavors are downplayed. Overall, it's quite a mild brew, but very nice nonetheless. The flavor isn't outstanding (in the sense of being something really dramatic), but it's very refreshing and incredibly pleasant.
M&D: very drinkable, pleasant beer. Light to moderate carbonation. Would definitely drink again.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.28/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.28/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Coming in a 500ml clear bottle, filtered and pasteurised; BB 06/2010, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass. NOTE: The beer is named after the alleged leader of the notorious invading Saxon party to East Anglia in the 5th and 6th centuries, Bretwalda (meaning "King of the English").
A: pale copper or very dark reddish amber in colour, coming with moderate carbonation that gradually dissipates, topped with a slowly settling light beige foam.
S: the aroma is dominated by spicy-fruity Styrian Goldings and orangey citric Goldings hops, laced with GK's unique sour edge of yeastiness, caramely hints of malts, and mixed marinated stone-fruits (a bit like prunes and hawthorn fruits). O.K. as far as no skunk-iness is detected.
T: the refreshingly effervescent foretaste of 50-50 spicy-orangey hop fruitiness and brown-sugary maltiness gradually yields a faintly spicy, earthy and tea-ish bitter-sweetness in addition to a semi-chewy + semi-powdery palate (as a reminder of crystal malts) to linger in the end. Pretty straight-forward, but not necessarily overly-simple.
M&D: not particularly fizzy, which is good, and the body is moderate at most and not at all thin by GK's standards. Although some balance is definitely here to be appreciated, the flavour profile carries with it the GK's yeasty imprint that is just too common to almost all GK products and hard to make this ale stand out from its sister products. An "ordinary" Bitter, so to speak?
Sep 05, 2009A: pale copper or very dark reddish amber in colour, coming with moderate carbonation that gradually dissipates, topped with a slowly settling light beige foam.
S: the aroma is dominated by spicy-fruity Styrian Goldings and orangey citric Goldings hops, laced with GK's unique sour edge of yeastiness, caramely hints of malts, and mixed marinated stone-fruits (a bit like prunes and hawthorn fruits). O.K. as far as no skunk-iness is detected.
T: the refreshingly effervescent foretaste of 50-50 spicy-orangey hop fruitiness and brown-sugary maltiness gradually yields a faintly spicy, earthy and tea-ish bitter-sweetness in addition to a semi-chewy + semi-powdery palate (as a reminder of crystal malts) to linger in the end. Pretty straight-forward, but not necessarily overly-simple.
M&D: not particularly fizzy, which is good, and the body is moderate at most and not at all thin by GK's standards. Although some balance is definitely here to be appreciated, the flavour profile carries with it the GK's yeasty imprint that is just too common to almost all GK products and hard to make this ale stand out from its sister products. An "ordinary" Bitter, so to speak?
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