Série Laboratoire No. 3 - British Best Bitter
Brasseurs Du Monde
- From:
- Brasseurs Du Monde
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 7.83%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 25, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 17, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Single hopped bitter using Fuggles including whirlpool and double dry hop additions.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Dominic51487 from Canada (QC)
4.27/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Served in a can that has to be rolled before served. A little hazy but has a rich brown color about an 8 on the SRM scale. Head retention good with big bubbles and foamy head. Smell alcohol mixed with malt and has a dry bitter fruity taste. Light beer with medium length goes down easy and tastes exactly how a bitter should taste in my opinion. Great beer.
Jun 25, 2019
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.64/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Serving: Can
Canned: Apr-3-2019 (Consumed Jun-15)
It pours glowing orange, clearish with a skiff of soda-like beige head that is pretty short-lived; scarce lacing. The aroma is earthy with orange rinds, bread, black tea, blackberries and soil. The flavor follows with astringent hops, dirt, black tea and some earthy bitterness. It is pretty drinkable with subdued carbonation, some astringency and a lingering finish. This is neither a great nor terrible bitter in my opinion. The look and flavor are nice enough, nothing too flashy, but they are lacking in that nice substantial malt body that I like in a beer like this and the astringency from how it was hopped kind of gets in the way for the taste and feel. The aroma, on the other hand, benefits from their strange (in my mind at least) choice of whirlpooling and dry-hopping with fuggles. Orange marmalade, berries and dirt come out in a really nice way.
All told, this was not terrible but was definitely lopsided. I think it is worth trying any single hop beers just to get a feel for hop character. This one has confirmed that, while I don't hate them as much as some do, I am not a huge fan of fuggles for flavor and bittering. Tasted like an old, used black tea bag that somebody stomped into the dirt. However, at the same time I was surprised by all of the character these guys coaxed out in the aroma department. Smelled like bitter oranges and a tiller destroying a berry patch. Is that technically a "bramble" in jolly old England?
Not half bad, I'd try others in this series.
3.75...4...3.5...3.5...3.5
Jun 17, 2019Canned: Apr-3-2019 (Consumed Jun-15)
It pours glowing orange, clearish with a skiff of soda-like beige head that is pretty short-lived; scarce lacing. The aroma is earthy with orange rinds, bread, black tea, blackberries and soil. The flavor follows with astringent hops, dirt, black tea and some earthy bitterness. It is pretty drinkable with subdued carbonation, some astringency and a lingering finish. This is neither a great nor terrible bitter in my opinion. The look and flavor are nice enough, nothing too flashy, but they are lacking in that nice substantial malt body that I like in a beer like this and the astringency from how it was hopped kind of gets in the way for the taste and feel. The aroma, on the other hand, benefits from their strange (in my mind at least) choice of whirlpooling and dry-hopping with fuggles. Orange marmalade, berries and dirt come out in a really nice way.
All told, this was not terrible but was definitely lopsided. I think it is worth trying any single hop beers just to get a feel for hop character. This one has confirmed that, while I don't hate them as much as some do, I am not a huge fan of fuggles for flavor and bittering. Tasted like an old, used black tea bag that somebody stomped into the dirt. However, at the same time I was surprised by all of the character these guys coaxed out in the aroma department. Smelled like bitter oranges and a tiller destroying a berry patch. Is that technically a "bramble" in jolly old England?
Not half bad, I'd try others in this series.
3.75...4...3.5...3.5...3.5
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