Banks’s Bitter (Cask)

Brewed by Banks’s (Marstons plc)
Style: Bitter
Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England

Cask @ The Kingsbridge Inn, Bourton-on-the-wold, England. Copper pour, notes of tea, medium hop flavor, sweeter caramel malts, mild bitterness, light bodied

The Manor Arms, Rushall. As illustrated. Herbal (somewhat Germanic) hop, conifer, sultana, forest fruits (Octo reckons Starburst), fresh bread, clinging yeast and malt. Faint vanilla, nuts and hay. So alive and packed with subtle flavours beside the Old Thumper. Surprising.

Cask at the woodmans. Aroma is minimal due to the fu**in sparkler, but malty primarily. Taste has small sulphur hints, smiliar to amroma, honestly vulgary adultaraded to a new level to me by the bloody spakler with a nitro hear thrpoughout. of which would have been a decent beer.

Cask @ The Ship, Croydon. Aroma of malt, sweetness and somehops. Pours a standard amber colour. Taste was not memorale at all. Very basic.

Clear dark golden pour with practically no head. A notably weak, cerealic and rather vegetal, grainy bitter with little minerality nor yeast character and rather underdeveloped toasted malt softness.

Parkway Tavern, Stoke Gifford S Gloucs. Pale amber with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of caramel. Flavour of sweet malt with a smooth finish. A very easy drinking session beer.

June, 2007 Mermaid, Welshpool. Lighter in colour, sweeter and less hoppy than Banks’s Original - but otherwise pretty much the same. It has a pleasant enough tang, but is otherwise fairly ordinary. The Original has a touch more character. [2.9]

[CASK: The Red Lion, Witington, Manchester 19/07/06] The Banks Bitter I tried was 4% and overall was not too unpleasant. Overall the beer was quite mediocre and nothing too special. An alright bitter but not exciting enough for my tastes.