Queen’s Best Bitter
One Great City Brewing Co.
- From:
- One Great City Brewing Co.
- Manitoba, Canada
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 10.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 01, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
3.43/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.43/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Appearance: Poured with a thumb of head that managed to leave the barest amount of lacing but didn't stick around for as long as I'd like. The beer is quite dark, certainly dark brown describes it, but you can make out some steady carbonation when put up to the light at the right angle.
Smell: Slightly burnt toffee malt with bitter earth notes and hints of plum. It does need a bit of warming to come out.
Taste: Starts with the sweeter end of the toffee with plum notes that turns to a decent bitter kick of earthy hops, that sadly are paired with an out of place burnt note at the absolute end of it's evolution.
Mouthfeel: That burnt note is what really detracts here, because it clings in the aftertaste. The carbonation helps out the entire beer, but it also further accentuates it. Transitioning is decent enough, although although it's a sweet climb up a roller coaster before a bitter drop that goes a bit too far.
Drinkability: I would call it light-medium, in terms of body and really it's a bit out of place here. Most English Bitter's I have are lighter affairs, in terms of thickness, ABV and flavor. Settles down well enough, but that burnt cling needs to go.
Final Thoughts: I think this beer would be better served marketed as an ESB myself. It's more potent, in that right thickness and I'd probably be a bit more lenient of a style that is not known for being as sessionable as a standard English Bitter.
Mar 14, 2023Smell: Slightly burnt toffee malt with bitter earth notes and hints of plum. It does need a bit of warming to come out.
Taste: Starts with the sweeter end of the toffee with plum notes that turns to a decent bitter kick of earthy hops, that sadly are paired with an out of place burnt note at the absolute end of it's evolution.
Mouthfeel: That burnt note is what really detracts here, because it clings in the aftertaste. The carbonation helps out the entire beer, but it also further accentuates it. Transitioning is decent enough, although although it's a sweet climb up a roller coaster before a bitter drop that goes a bit too far.
Drinkability: I would call it light-medium, in terms of body and really it's a bit out of place here. Most English Bitter's I have are lighter affairs, in terms of thickness, ABV and flavor. Settles down well enough, but that burnt cling needs to go.
Final Thoughts: I think this beer would be better served marketed as an ESB myself. It's more potent, in that right thickness and I'd probably be a bit more lenient of a style that is not known for being as sessionable as a standard English Bitter.
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