Barnsley Beer Company Owd Tyke

Brewed by Wentworth
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Rotherham, England

Bottle, B&M. Mahogany coloured with decent off white head. Smells like a working mens club. The two guys below me have done a much better job of explaining the beer. I liked it more than my esteemed colleagues it would seem though. All I’ll say is Carlos Tevez is a judas bitch.

Deep chestnut with a thin persisting beige lid. Nose a pleasant enough confusion of earthy malt and yeast, walnut, redcurrant, ash, strawberry chocolate mice. Generic fizz and astringency dragging down what decent hops and malts there may be beneath; light notes of sick, oak, chocolate, red berries, grapefruit, everything swallowed by that insistent shampoo/burnt nut bitterness. One of those beers that just tries too hard to be characterful and bitter, without the class to quite pull it off.

Bottle, from Rhythm & Booze, Barton. Deep ruby red, thin shortlived white head and low condition. Gentle fruity berry nose with low coffee ground and a slight chocolate edge, soft and tangy in the mouth with a developing bitterness that soon takes over, persisting into the finish to its detriment