Barley Johns Little Barley Bitter

Brewed by Barley Johns Brew Pub
Style: Bitter
New Brighton, Minnesota USA

Sample from tap at the brewpub. Pours clear orange with a white head. Aroma of malt, slight toffee and slight bitter hops. Flavour is the same, malty dry beer. I don’t really sense bitterness. A slight bit watery.

Date: 06/23/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

hazy gold, fine white head, lots of scattered lace, bready malt aroma with a candy sweetness, light sweet malt flavor, light lasting bitterness, simple but very nice and drinkable for a 3.5% beer

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Cloudy amber body with minimal white head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some herbal. Taste is medium sweet, herbal/earthy, some peach ,light melon, caramel. Light-medium body with low carbonation. MilkmanDan was with me, and assures me it tasted much better the last time he was there -- I wish I got to try that version.

On tap at the brewpub on 6/23/07: Pours a transparent bright golden with a well-lacing froth of off-white head. Lightly sweet pale malty nose has a fresh, slight earthy English hoppy presence. Body starts lightly sweet and refreshing with a decent bittering hoppy balance and faint toffee toward a thinner, crisp finish. A good session brew.

Draft... RBSG 07... Clear, very light golden ale with a mid-sized, frothy, white head. Incredible retention. Odd smelling for a bitter, but I like it. Earthy, woodsy aroma with undercurrents of spent mash and delicately toasted barley. Restrained bitter-sweet flavors of caramel, English-American hybrid hops and boiled grain. Light-bodied and fizzy. Short, crisp, mildly bitter finish.

Draft @ Brewpub: Clear gold, nice head and lacing. Nose of bright fresh malt, 2-row and sweet nutty hops. The flavor is nicely hoppy and balanced. Light.

Sample at the brewpub. Clean, clear dark amber; big sweet cherry-malty nose, quite wonderful. Very dry, light, but full palate, with a nice finishing biscuity quality; could use perhaps a bit more sweetness, and less astringency to end, but very nice overall.

On tap at the barley Johns brewpub. Pours a thin golden orange brew with an average sized off-white, slowly disolving head. Aroma of roasted caramel barley malt and a touch of citrus fruit. Taste is dry bitter, medium bodied, carbonated, and a dry bitter aftertaste. Finish is a little sour and then a lingering bitter aftertaste.