City of Cambridge Brewery - Parkers Piece
Wolf Brewery Ltd.

Blind-tasted/rated.
Bought from Scotsdales Garden Centre Trumpington Cambridge. 500ml bottle. BB: 28/1/2025 Ouch £3.25
L- A notably lovely deep chestnut brown, clear, with super eager/fat pillowy cream coloured head. Really superb. 5 mins later 'rocky' and veeeery slowly crumbling, wow.
S- Some deeply toasty malts, nice. Though not say the dazzle factor of Belgian yeast-esters of course.
T- Fully trad. Quite hoppy bright on the front, notably toasty malts swiftly along too and continue in each sip.
F- Nice, versatile beern, notably lingering malts, but good balance with it.
O- It seems often with beers like this cutely 'designed for the tourist trade' [almost] they are a long-shot. Even more so when they are made by say Cambridge 'Brew Co' by another brewery in Suffolk! So, mixing metaphors, the tea-leaves were not aligning auspiciously on this one until I had it in the glass.
Summary: Very nice, balanced, very trad, zero to object to just a very well put together beer. Bit surprised how much I'm enjoying this. = For context, for me this is a notably high rating.... this beer does the difficult thing of a trad mid-complexity, unexceptional ABV% beer just does it veeery well. I also find the lower the ABV% for several reasons often the harder to dazzle... this punches above that limitation IMO.