Marstons Burton Bitter (Bottle)

Brewed by Marstons (Marstons plc)
Style: Bitter
Burton-on-Trent, England

Sweet malty aroma. Dark amber, large fast dissipating head. Flavour is sweet malts, caramel and toffee. Thin, slightly watery body. Overcarbonated. Finishes toffee with slight hoppy bitterness. Too bad about the wateriness, otherwise this would have been an excellent beer.

Bottle from Morissons. Amber colour, white head. Aroma of malts and biscuit. Flavour is malty, and slightly hoppy. Thin bodied.

Dark amber pours with a large off white head which rapidly disappears, abit watery, bitter, slightly fizzy.

Bottle, pasteurised, 500ml from Waitrose, Witney. Amber with white head, heavily carbonated. Some eggy aromas on opening, but it is a Marstons beer after all, sharp tinny boiled notes in the body of the beer, almost off putting, then a caramelised malt beer. Very little hint of the hops that should be there. Not great.

A thick frothy head carbonation medium not strong lovely amber pour clear aroma toffee malts honey flavour vanilla butterscotch taste not pleasing dull bland finish bland slight malt no thanks.

Came in a 660ml bottle, being artifically carbonated makes me worry about this one. marstons beers tend to be cheaper but not that good.

Bottle 500ml from Waitrose. Part of a Marstons Head Brewers mixed pack. Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Reasonable hoppy aroma and a malty, hoppy flavour. Actually quite drinkable and better than Marston’s Pedigree.

Bottle. A very clear one. So that when I pour (amber, with a little white head) the overwhelming wave of skunk is no particular surprise. Not a hint of skunk, a wall of skunk, unpleasantly noticeable from an arm’s length. And like all brewers who put their beer in clear bottles, from my perspective, any skunk is their fault. Flavor is a bit of chewy caramel, decent body for the strength, but the skunk has invaded the flavor too, and this one is destined for the drain. Without the skuck, who knows. With it, remarkably bad.