Broughton Reiver IPA

Brewed by Broughton
Style: Bitter
Biggar, The Borders, Scotland

Cask at Halfway House, Ediburgh. agolden beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of malt. The flavor is sweet malty with citrusy and flowery hop notes.

Cask at Halfway House, Edinburgh. Deep golden. Sweet and fruity. Lightly buttery with medium body and rounded malt. Salty finish. A well made, lager-like ale, but not all that interesting.

Cask (handpump) @ Bailie Bar, 2-4 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh EH3, Scotland.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, creamy, good - excellent lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, light hoppy, citrus. Flavor is light moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090410]

Cask handpull at Halfway House, Edinburgh. Gold, lasting white head. Fine. It’s a standard gollden bitter, soft in the mouth.

A Mes rate: Cask at the Ffestiniog Railway Station Pub. Citric and a little apricot and marmalade. Lovely hops with a very slight malty undertone. Decent beer.

Clear light golden ale covered by a large sparkler’s white head. Lightly flowery nose consisting of very soft malts that appear quite oily and vegetal in mouth. Rather dull palate, kinda stale and overly focusing on one-dimensional breadiness.

This was 4.2% and just called the reiver, no ipa. Excellent aroma, peachy, citrus and pale malts. Taste is similar but lacking in the peachyness due to the bittering hops taking it away.

Cask conditioned at Merton Beer festival ’07. Pale amber with light head. I won’t enter the IPA argument here, but it ain’t one. Light biscuity body, some fragrant fruitiness and with a light hop finish. decent without being spectacular.