Trinity
City Of Cambridge Brewery Company Limited

Purchased at the Cambridge Wine Merchants, this bottle-conditioned beer is said to be a blend of "Boathouse Bitter" and "Atom Splitter". Coming in a 500ml brown bottle, BB 03/2008. Served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.

A: dark amber, pretty clear, with semi-lively carbonation and a negligible layer of off-white foam that quickly dissipates.
S: quite tea-ish and semi-spicy (a wee bit of nutmeg) in aroma, along with flint-stone, phenol, and light mustiness of yeasts; hops are restrained, while the flat, malty body also smells a bit nutty with a faint roastiness.
T: the light-bodied yet chewy nutty maltiness receives plenty of phenolic yeastiness on the palate... gradually the mildly spicy and earthy hop-bitterness develops, before the licorice+nutty aftertaste rounds off the palate with a dryish touch of chopped roasted tea-leaves.
M&D: for a bottle-conditioned ale, the texture is weird--there's a good input from natural carbonation, but the fizziness quickly retreats and thus the body somehow remains too flat... I can't understand why, apart from possible explanations such as problematic bottling processes... Light-bodied, simplistic bitter with some yeasty elements to enjoy. An O.K. offering, at least in its bottled form.