Marstons Hoggys Night Watchman (Bottle)

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

Bottle from Asda. OMG i really wasnt expecting this. Im having it right now as i rate. Aroma: Old cellar and bins, rotten veg, pale sweet malt, overly boiled cabbage. Then you drink it: Holy mother of god, iv had some drain pours in my life, but this is shocking, UTTER DISGUSTING, it honestly tastes like old bin juice. This does it, this beats them all, this makes Carlton Cold seem tasty. I thank you Marstons for giving me my worst ever beer ever ever ever....

Bottle. Amber with an off white head. Aromas are spiced oranges with dusty, prickly notes. Bitter green woody hops. Flavours are sweet and sour oranges with lots of peppery and grapefruit pith bitterness. Has the usual Marstons caramel lingering. Not too bad.

Bottle at home ... Golden orange ... light fruity hop ... little grassy hop ... quite drying and a little grapefruit

500ml bottle from Asda. Fairly standard British pasteurised beer in a bottle. Boiled sweets and a clean, lifeless malt. Perhaps a bit more dust in the finish than average, but the dust certainly aint fragrant - simply a bittering hop. The bitterness may appeal to some. It’s not my bag - but the beer is drinkable enough.

Typical dead boiled sweet aroma with hints of caramel, peardroppy fruit, wood, sulphur, and continental hops. Grassy sweetness, biscuit, cardboard and caramel. Quite full at 3.8%. A trace of orange fruitiness in there, but not nearly enough. Coloured water with an empty hop bitterness. Dead, but not nasty.

Bottle. Golden and clear.Claims that it is full bodied on the label but it certainly isn’t.Thin with a trace of maltness. Like the England cricket team it fails to live up to expectations.

50cl bottle from Asda, Woodley. Amber with a thick white head; citrus and malt aroma with some Marston’s sulphur; taste is dominated by bitter hops but with an underlying caramel sweetness. Not a very subtle beer.

Bottle. Aroma was bitter, malt, fruit and oranges. Zesty. Copper orange in colour with a thin head. Bitter flavour malt, also zest and citrus. A little tinny but overall the beer has a bitter sharpness to it which serves up to be refreshing.