Belhaven Robert Burns (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Bitter
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

(Draught at Gaestgivaregaarden, Helsingør, Denmark) Clear brown color, thick creamy tan head. Fruity and wet pipe tobacco scent. Very fruity and sweet, also tobacco, taste. Smooth velvet like mouthfeel. Low bitterness.

Bottle. Pours dark amber with an off-white bubbly head, fades quickly. Nose of hops, soap suds, some malt and some oakwood smoke. Flavour is slightly malty sweet, floral, then some hoppiness, touch of sour fruit and then some smoky peat. Sweetness continues in the mouth for a long time. Peat taste and smokiness lasts right through to the finish. Finish is slightly too hoppy, but good, little heavy for a bitter. Straightfoward.

Bottle. Amber colour with a medium mostly diminishing head. Aroma roasted malts, bit smoky, sweet. Flavour of some smoke, good roasty maltiness and sweet caramel. Nice mild smokiness in this brew.

Bottle, 4.2%. Weak malty aroma. Clear brown colour, stable light brown head. Slightly smoky flavour, otherwise a bit sweet. The sweetness is too sugary for my liking.

Off white head and dark amber of color. An aroma with sweet malt and toffee. The flavor is sweet and malty, not much hops in it. A sweet bitter of my opinion.

Bottle. Dark amber with decent off-white head. Aroma offers sweet malt, caramel and horseblanquet. Flavor primarily slightly sweet malt. Somewhat oily on the palate. Average finish. Well made bitter.

Bottle. Red/Brown amber colour with a nice off white head. Malt and caramel aroma and flavour of malt, smoke and caramel

Bottle: Reddish-amber coloured, big fluffy off-white head, slowly collapsing; sweet nose: roasted malt, toasted malt, molasses or liquorice wtih some fruitiness; sweet flavour, light to medium bodied; sweetish-malty finish with traces of liquorice again. Not bad, but a bit too much on the sweet side.......