Belhaven St Andrews Ale (Bottle)

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

Pours a clear amber with a moderate tan head. Aroma is malty, grainy with a bit of mustiness. Taste is a bit bitter, but not overpowering. Moderate to heavy carbonation leads to a clean finish. Overall pretty good.

Big rum and Coke nose, some citrus notes. Cloudy reddish brow, small soapy head. Salt water taffy sweetness, spicy bitterness. Big carbonation, medium body, full mouth feel, finishes unfortunately like a cola flavored “malt beverage” alcopop. Everything indicated that this would be an interesting beer, but once ingested in went downhill.

I liked the subtle earthy-mineral yeast flavor. Pours a clear ruddy brown with natural looking head that is off-white. Aroma is all yeast sweetness and a slight scrapey feel which rounds out with air. Taste is rounded fruit - tropical and apple - with some light lemon from the hops. Caramel and nutty sweetness, gorgeous. Light roast.

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Bottle into an English pint glass. The pour is muddy orange-brown with plenty of floaties and a creamy off-white head with loose bubbles that fades to a smaller head but then sticks. The aroma is a bit of sweet malts with a big dose of fruitiness and a hint of cream and sour in the background. The flavor is milder than the aroma with subtle and clean sour fruitiness followed by a nice maltiness characterized by grain, a bit of roast, and even some chocolate. There is a touch of dryness to the finish that is nice. This is honestly a pretty straightfoward, balanced, and good brew. Rather high carbonation.

Brown bottle, 500 ml, lot A, best before DEC 10, purchased at the LCBO on November 3 2009, savoured on November 9 2009; eye: copper, clear, light effervescence, tiny sheet of beige head, nice lacing; nose: grain, malt, slight caramel, light dusty; mouth: grain, malt, slight caramel, slight dusty, finale in grain where hops makes an unexpected appearance, medium-light body, rather carbonated, slight astringency, slightly bitter and sweet, lightly grainy texture, a bit thin; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 500 ml, lot A, meilleure avant DEC 10, achetée à la LCBO le 3 novembre 2009, savourée le 9 novembre 2009; œil : cuivrée, claire, légère effervescence, petite couverture de mousse beige, bonne dentelle; nez : grain, malt, très léger caramel, très léger poussière; bouche : grain, malt, très léger caramel, très léger poussière, finale en grain où apparaît un houblon inattendu, corps moyen-léger, plutôt carbonatée, très légère astringence, très légèrement amère et sucrée, texture légèrement granuleuse, un peu mince; en résumé : bien

500ml bottle from the LCBO Pours a nice dark reddish cooper with a nice frothy white head and good lacing as per the description The aroma light caramel malt the taste is light sweet malt with a touch of hops a liitle thin but not bad

Dark copper color with a thin, almost lacy, head. Piney, slightly citrus hops with a caramel malt base, with a touch of tobacco and dried fruit. Rather faint altogether. Bigger malt in the mouth, lots of caramel and chocolate, along with raisins. Some piney hop flavor, a touch of citrus, and very light bitterness in the end. Smooth and rounded enough. Well balanced but rather dull in flavor.