Okells Dr Okells Eastern Spice

Brewed by Okells
Style: Bitter
Douglas, Isle of Man

July 2008. Fruity start and some red fruit in the mid. Quickly blooms in to a hot dry chilli finish. Brewed with coriander, chilli and ginger.

Golden with a small white head. Exotic fruity aroma. Dry fruity flavour with hot spices

Cask (handpump) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, peppery. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, and a nice pepper burn finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (070808)

Clear golden with medium white head. Sweet aroma with fruity notes. Sweet flavor with caramel and a pepper bite in the end.

Draft at The Ship in Whitstable High Street. This beer really does make you sit up and take notice, Pours a pale straw colour with a spicy hoppy aroma backed with ginger. My lips actually felt like they were burning drinking this beer - the owner of the pub makes his own EXTREMELY hot pickled eggs and I thought a drop of juice from the jar must have got into my pint! Never experienced a chilli hit like it, but overall a very rich, flavoursome pint that demands to be remembered.

Handpulled cask at JDW St. Albans. Hazy gold with a healthy white head. A fairly ordinary North West bitter to start with but the ginger and chilli soon start tickling the tastebuds and this develops into quite an unusual experience. Overall, dry and moreish. I liked it more than I thought I would.

[Cask at Back of Beyond, Reading, April 2008] Odd - a traditional best bitter flavour (despite the pale colour) on the foretaste, a huge hit of ginger and chilli on the aftertaste - in the manner of having a teaspoon of the dried spice just after finishing your beer. Very unusual, and rather enjoyable provided you don’t mind losing your sense of taste for some time after! Not sure I’d want an entire pint for fear of indigestion or a digestive cataclysm. Definitely one to split opinions.

cask at Kitty’s Helsinki as Easton Spice on end of May Color:bit hazy yellow Taste:bitterness and spiciness came through even after I ate just Bombay Mix before drinking this one!