Wychert
Vale Brewery Company
- From:
- Vale Brewery Company
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 3.9%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 4.11%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 23, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 02, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by vinicole from England
3.82/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Cask. Clear amber eering to orange. Thin mottled head.
Mainly toffee malt upon smelling with floral hops both of which appear again upon tasting.
Soft cask carbonation with a light to medium body.
A very traditional bitter.
Nov 23, 2024Mainly toffee malt upon smelling with floral hops both of which appear again upon tasting.
Soft cask carbonation with a light to medium body.
A very traditional bitter.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.69/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
3.69/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Obviously not Retired since I had this pulled from the cask at the Mayflower Pub. And while this is only my second cask ale in my first 10 days in London, I immediately knew the fresh I'd been missing. And these gentle brews also go well with English pub food. (So quickly I forget.) Tonight I had a vegetarian Wellington with Yorkshire Pudding. A big, full plate that the brew added some flavor, but basically let the food do its work.
I full ruby body and gentle foam and lace. Smells were mostly malt. Tastes were balanced, but a tea-like spicing kept coming back in when the hops retreated for a bit in the finish. Medium-mouthed, which is good for 3.9 ABV.
My first from Vale, they get a micro-review: I'm happy to sample a traditionalist. Vale has been brewing for three decades and I'm guessing that half of what they produce are bitters... not a style in vogue. But Vale is your classic English country brewer with one taproom and beer garden outside a hamlet. So their brews have to be good enough to sell in other traditional places, such as London's Mayflower pub. Cheers !
Nov 03, 2024I full ruby body and gentle foam and lace. Smells were mostly malt. Tastes were balanced, but a tea-like spicing kept coming back in when the hops retreated for a bit in the finish. Medium-mouthed, which is good for 3.9 ABV.
My first from Vale, they get a micro-review: I'm happy to sample a traditionalist. Vale has been brewing for three decades and I'm guessing that half of what they produce are bitters... not a style in vogue. But Vale is your classic English country brewer with one taproom and beer garden outside a hamlet. So their brews have to be good enough to sell in other traditional places, such as London's Mayflower pub. Cheers !
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.41/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Tasted by a pint at my local JDW pub, the Half Moon, East End London. The pint is served slightly cooler than a real ale should be, but at least it's not too warm, which there's no way to remedy unless starting a row with the proud JDW manager at this branch...
A: dark orangey-amber hue, coming with a fluffy off-white beer head with surprisingly good retention; low carbonation.
S: very light hop resins and a mild citrus and leafy hoppyness upfront, bakced by a faintly toffee-ish malts and a touch of brown sugar. Overall, very retrained.
T: refreshing citrus-fruity hops upfront, followed by a deeper layer of spicy and tea-ish hoppy bitterness and a mild bitter-sweet malty overtone. The lingering, almost black-tea-ish, bitter aftertaste lends a good body to the overall structure.
M&D: soothing and nicely carbonated on the mouthfeel, this is a pretty light-bodied and refreshing bitter in need of more flavours. Yet, given its superbly lingering bitterness, this counts as a session bitter for me.
Apr 04, 2006A: dark orangey-amber hue, coming with a fluffy off-white beer head with surprisingly good retention; low carbonation.
S: very light hop resins and a mild citrus and leafy hoppyness upfront, bakced by a faintly toffee-ish malts and a touch of brown sugar. Overall, very retrained.
T: refreshing citrus-fruity hops upfront, followed by a deeper layer of spicy and tea-ish hoppy bitterness and a mild bitter-sweet malty overtone. The lingering, almost black-tea-ish, bitter aftertaste lends a good body to the overall structure.
M&D: soothing and nicely carbonated on the mouthfeel, this is a pretty light-bodied and refreshing bitter in need of more flavours. Yet, given its superbly lingering bitterness, this counts as a session bitter for me.
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