John Smiths Bitter / Extra Smooth

Brewed by John Smiths (S&N, Heineken)
Style: Bitter
Tadcaster, England

Draught. A brown coloured beer with a creamy head. I cannot discern any taste at all other than water. It’s not nasty just bland, bland, bland.

I thought this was a wonderful beer with little after-taste. We buy it in cans at our stores here in Canada. It is 2.25$ a pint. I find it smooth and great with food. Cheers

The Draught flow can should have pre-warned me of the ’beer’ inside (re: Kilkenny & Guinness Draught). Poured as expected, an auburn gold with a thick nitrogen assisted off-white head. Aroma began with burnt toast, sump oil and marmite, but didn’t hang around long. Tasted (if you try hard) of grain husks, sour cream, dank liquor and a little roasted malt. Very creamy, flatly smooth and completely boring, this is another attempt to make decent beer drinkers look like twats with beer that is not beer!!!

From tap and can.Chestnut brown appearance.A virgin bitter,my palate was there years ago,as was yours.

Draft. Slightly pale ruby red colour. Medium-sized nitrogen head. Weak aroma. Flat, slightly malty taste. Pretty bland and not very carbonated. Smooth mouthfeel. This doesn´t have any taste.

Can. Not bad for what i’d consider a ’midstrength’ beer. Light maltiness on the nose, pours light amber and settles with a thick solid head. Although it has quite a watery body to it, still manages to have more malt, bitterness and bready yeast flavour than alot of full strength beers out there. At the end of the day it’s really not worth what I paid for it however.

Basically the only thing there was to drink at misic venue called The Garage. On cream flow nitro keg. I could swear this was watered down. Very little taste & no alcohol "hit" at all, even thougb it’s supposed to be 4%. Ohhh yeah & served way too cold too, then again that could be to mask any taste it does have

Clear amber/copper coloured body with a perfect frothy tan (widget/nitrogenated) head. Aroma of pale malt, caramel, light english hops, some apples & cardboard. Light/medium bodied; Velvety texture to boot. Appley taste with some bitter malt noticeable up front. Mild hop flavour-fairly negligable. Aftertaste clean and fresh. Some malt bitterness-no sweetness nor alcohol tastes. Overall, a mild and underpowering bitter. Not horrible, but not impressive in the slightest bit. I sampled this 440 mL can purchased at the LCBO on Queen’s Quay in Toronto, Ontario on 16-October-2004 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.