Crow Valley Bitter
Cwmbran Brewery
- From:
- Cwmbran Brewery
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 9.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 28, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 13, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.53/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Cask at the Ipswich Beer Festival 2004, gravity dispense. Copper coloured. Moderate malty aroma. Drier than you expect from a beer this colour. Nice hoppy bitterness. Finished it with my burger & chips - good combo.
July 2007: 500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Labeled "real ale in a bottle", so probably NOT pasteurised. ABV is 4.2%. Amber to copper colour, large off-white head. Pleasant fruity aroma, notes of red berries, hints of oak and spices. The flavour is fairly malty with a touch of caramel. Moderate hops. Easy drinking.
Jul 28, 2022July 2007: 500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Labeled "real ale in a bottle", so probably NOT pasteurised. ABV is 4.2%. Amber to copper colour, large off-white head. Pleasant fruity aroma, notes of red berries, hints of oak and spices. The flavour is fairly malty with a touch of caramel. Moderate hops. Easy drinking.
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
3.8/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.8/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
brown 500ml bottle drank on its best before date of Oct 2008.
Poured into a straight pint sleeve glass. It has a deep amber/terraccota red colour, clear and clean looking, on top sat a white covering of foam.
The aroma was of a rich raisen, plum pudding type of smell, toasted malts also in the bouquet.
The taste has all the flavours mentioned in the aroma section, this is a good beer.
I thought it a bit watery after a while, the flavours hung around, but it lacked a true body feel that you would expect from such a rich smelling and first mouthfeel bitter.
Apart from the weakness at the finish I thought this a fine beer. The head fell away too swiftly too.
Sep 30, 2008Poured into a straight pint sleeve glass. It has a deep amber/terraccota red colour, clear and clean looking, on top sat a white covering of foam.
The aroma was of a rich raisen, plum pudding type of smell, toasted malts also in the bouquet.
The taste has all the flavours mentioned in the aroma section, this is a good beer.
I thought it a bit watery after a while, the flavours hung around, but it lacked a true body feel that you would expect from such a rich smelling and first mouthfeel bitter.
Apart from the weakness at the finish I thought this a fine beer. The head fell away too swiftly too.
Reviewed by stcules from Italy
3.03/5 rDev -15.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -15.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Intense and clean copper color, beautiful. A finger of a light beige foam.
Malt, earthly hop, green nuts, toffee, and a light hint of cocoa.
At the taste is definitely malty, quite soft, with fruity and earthly notes.
Light in body, a lightly astringent aftertaste, not bad. Anyway, malty again, with hints of green tea.
Aug 18, 2007Malt, earthly hop, green nuts, toffee, and a light hint of cocoa.
At the taste is definitely malty, quite soft, with fruity and earthly notes.
Light in body, a lightly astringent aftertaste, not bad. Anyway, malty again, with hints of green tea.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.65/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.65/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Purchased at the Waitrose supermarket. BBE NOV 06. Served cool in a straight imperial-pint glass.
A: pale copperish colour, a fluffy and foamy off-white beer head settles down quickly, on top of a moderately carbonated body.
S: sweetish and chewy malty with a supporting aroma reminiscent of toffee+chestnut+germinated green-beans; some raisin and ripe dark fruity hops in the background. Quite different, and nice.
T: a sourly-sweet nutty flavour with a touch of roastiness of malts prevails from the first second, gradually the chewy biscuity malts emerge and expand into the four corners in the mouth... lightly dried-grassy, soothing tea-ish as well as dried-berries' (e.g. raisin) flavour sustain in the finish, leaving a nice mouthfeel of aromatic hops and understated tea-like bitterness.
M&D: the carbonation is nicely executed, hence a consistently soothing and smooth mouthfeel; though not particularly flavoursome nor complex, this beer is a good thirst-quencher and should even rate as a session beer when served on draught.
Apr 08, 2006A: pale copperish colour, a fluffy and foamy off-white beer head settles down quickly, on top of a moderately carbonated body.
S: sweetish and chewy malty with a supporting aroma reminiscent of toffee+chestnut+germinated green-beans; some raisin and ripe dark fruity hops in the background. Quite different, and nice.
T: a sourly-sweet nutty flavour with a touch of roastiness of malts prevails from the first second, gradually the chewy biscuity malts emerge and expand into the four corners in the mouth... lightly dried-grassy, soothing tea-ish as well as dried-berries' (e.g. raisin) flavour sustain in the finish, leaving a nice mouthfeel of aromatic hops and understated tea-like bitterness.
M&D: the carbonation is nicely executed, hence a consistently soothing and smooth mouthfeel; though not particularly flavoursome nor complex, this beer is a good thirst-quencher and should even rate as a session beer when served on draught.
Reviewed by Doiv from England
4/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5
4/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5
Pours a mid copper colour with an off white to tan bubbly head, that leaves little lacing rings down the glass.
Aroma is grassy, musty, roasted hops, ash, coffee, and very strong yet very ambiguous.
Taste is of roasted hops, coffee, grass, red berries. Quite ambiguous.
Mouthfeel is like a mild would be, but a bit less body and a bit more 'watery'. A bit like Bateman's DM. Very easy to drink.
Jun 13, 2004Aroma is grassy, musty, roasted hops, ash, coffee, and very strong yet very ambiguous.
Taste is of roasted hops, coffee, grass, red berries. Quite ambiguous.
Mouthfeel is like a mild would be, but a bit less body and a bit more 'watery'. A bit like Bateman's DM. Very easy to drink.
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