Ringwood Old Thumper (USA)

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Portland, Maine USA

Clear orange amber color with a fizzy off-white head. Standard ESB aroma of cookie-ish malt, bread crusts, and light earthy hops. Flavor is thin, watery, and mineral. The maltiness is muted and there are no hops to be found. Tastes a lot like mineral water actually. The finish is absurdly short and very astringent. This beer sucks all the moisture off the tongue, leaving a non-hop bitterness. Not very good.

Pours a coper color with a medium sized white head. Nose is sweet and citrus with a potent sour note mixed in. Fruity pale malt sweetness in the taste, with a little bit of hop, and a big dose of wet lawn clippings. Without the lawn clippings, my rating would have been higher. Slightly sour and bitter finish.

By shipyard? 12oz bottle from Siciliano’s, Grand Rapids, MI. Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is light sweetness, almost like ice water with squeeze of citrus. Taste sweet citrus with cardboard, a little spice and a surprisinly light hop finish, only very slight though. Medium to light body with only the lightest carbonation. Okay but a little too sweet flavor, atleast the chalkiness was only very slight. Okay though.

Bottle. Pours an amber body with an off white head. Some light caramel and fruity esters berry like. Simple bitter and earthy.

easy drinker with a lot of sweet malty flavor. thin on the pour but packed with fresh crisp flavor. great session drink.

12 ounce bottle purchased at Total Wine Pembroke Pines, FL for $1.79 Not bad.

Tap. Not too bad for the name of the brewery. It was no too bitter but also did not have a big body. Sweetness is dominant and body is thin.

Poured a clear brown amber color with medium froathy offwhite head. Aroma is caramel malts with slight citric notes. Flavor is pretty sweet and watery with slight citric hop up from but nothing on the finish. A little dissapointing.