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Arkells 3B (Cask) 2.84 31

Arkells 3B (Cask)

Percentile
31
overall
Brewed by Arkells
Style: Bitter

Swindon, England

bottling
unknown

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unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
312.86/5.02.84/5.04%29English pint
Commercial Description:
Cask; Regular. Also available in a Tesco bottle conditioned pack.
Arkell's Best Bitter Beer, as it was originally known, was first brewed in 1910 and has been affectionately known as BBB or 3B by customers ever since. (One Swindon landlord will tell you that 'BBB' stands for "Big Boy's Beer"). Today, 3B is renowned by Britain's beer lovers as a superb, amber brew with a very distinctive taste and a sweet scent of malt beneath the hops. Pale malt makes up 88% of the dry ingredients along with 10% crystal malt and 2% sugar. According to the 'Real Ale Drinker's Almanac', 3B has "delicate, beautifully balanced malt and hop with lingering dry finish and hint of nut".
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 swoopjones (1923), Buffalo, New York, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
Sep 24, 2009  
Cask @ White Hart, Stow-on-the-Wold, England. Amber/orange pour. Light to medium bodied. Nice malt flavor, mild to medium bitterness, light tea. decent session brew


 fonefan (11888), VestJylland, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 21, 2008  
Cask (handpump) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty sour notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (070808)


 SaintMatty (1236), Tallinn, Estonia
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 27, 2008  
Cask (White Hart Hotel,Whitechurch) - Copper brown with a small head. Fruity aroma with raisins. Malty and fruity taste with raisins featuring again. Refreshing but nothing special.


 oh6gdx (9104), Vasa, Finland
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 19, 2008  
Cask@GBBF2008. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is yeast, some dough, wood and also some mild wooden notes. Flavour is wood, yeast, some mild licorice as well as mild herbal notes.


 Ethereal (1500), London, Greater London, England
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 9, 2008  
Cask at GBBF 08. Amber. Malty at first but then nicely balanced. Decent weight and finish but a pretty dull beer.


 KimJohansen (7145), Copenhagen V, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Aug 7, 2008  
Clear amber with tiny white head. Sweet aroma with caramel notes. Sweet flavor with caramel and hoppy notes. Ends bitter.


 dj (422), Gloucestershire, England
0.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/103/52/101/51/20
Dec 15, 2007  
Cask handpump at the Exmouth Arms, Cheltenham 14/12/2007. An amber colour with an average head. An unpleasant manure aroma and taste that made me feel rather unwell and almost glad they were serving short measures. I gave up after 1/4 of the pint.

I wouldn’t usually rate beer that I suspect of being bad, but this was an Arkells beer in an Arkells pub so there is no excuse.


 mabel (2626), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 27, 2007  
[658-20070922] Cask @ Eagle Tavern (Oxford, OX). Citrus aroma has woody mild spices. Clear, amber brown body with a small long-lasting creamy off-white head. Strange spicy wood notes and citrus pip in the flavour. Medium body has a bitter finish. Drinkable but tangy.



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