Greene King Fireside (Bottle)

Brewed by Greene King
Style: Bitter
Bury St. Edmunds, England

Bottle. A clear amber bitter with a small, off-white head that endures a fair while before disappearing. This brew’s predominant character is caramel with the occasional fruity and yeasty notes coming through in the flavour and a nutty, barely bitter finish to round it off.

Fynske Øldage 2005, Odense. It’s a beautiful warm amber color and a nice head. The aroma has notes of fruit just like the flavour, that is smooth with clear notes of citrus.

Bottle. Brown-red with slight head. Fruity aroma followed by a sweet malt flavour with some hops in the finish. Unremarkable.

Bottle from Sainsburys, this was actually ok! Well hopped, with good malt characters. The 4.5% alcohol, while normally sufficient, doesn’t put this in the "winter warmer" bracket for me, I prefer my winter ales with a bit more clout. That said, I did enjoy this.

Rubyish pour with thinning cream suds. Robustly earthy, fruity hopsack aroma. Turkish Delight cloaked in dark chocolate malty-hoppy. One of the better seasonal winter offerings from UK supermarkets. Only really let down by its total headlessness after five swigs.

Bottled. Amber with a full beige head. Moderate bitter aroma, clean and unconfused. Distinct ’Green King’ bitter balance. Tastes very similar to the IPA. Slight tickle on the palate.

Bottle, pours a clear brown with a touch of carbonation and foamy beige head. An interesting aroma, definitely malty, but with citrus fruits and pineapple. Malty flavours at first, and then the fruits comes through on a sharper palate. OK, but wouldn’t put it in the category of a winter warmer.

Bottle, from Sainsburys. Deep amber, thin but lasting white head and moderate condition. Initial chewy toffee, caramel and banana aromas subsiding to earthy hop oils, quite thin in the mouth with a slight tinniness with more fruity banana and a slight toffee sweetness, lingering oily hop notes in the finish with a lingering fruity hop bitterness.