Samuel Smiths Sovereign Best Bitter

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Bitter
Tadcaster, England

Keg Handpump at the Boot Inn, Chester 17/04/2004 Golden amber coloured with a slightly fruity sour flavour. Some bitterness in a dry lasting finish.

At Chandos, Chandos Place, Covent Garden. Very drinkable beer, copper in colour, nice frothy head with good lacing, hoppy fruity (apples?) taste, nice but short aftertaste. Pleasant.

Pours light gold, settles to a clear deep amber-gold colour. Taste is of some apple, bitter. Very malty. Average keg bitter.

Pint poured at Champion Bar - just off Oxford Street in London. Poured white but settled to a very clear amber with a creamy head. Citrus in the aroma, but plums in the flavour, with a nice bitterness in the mouth.

Keg at Anchor Tap, Southwark. Copper coloured with thick creamy head. Some hoppy aroma. Mouthfeel is creamy, a little light on the flavours.Finish has a bit of tangy hop, some caramel. Inoffensive

Ah now we’re talking (not!). A useless pint in every regard. Tin. Wet paper. Lifeless. Kills the monkey. Kills the spark. Fizz it up the khyber and see how the boys like it. Bless ’em.

(cask at Princess Louise, London) Clear light amber body topped by a big creamy off-white head that leaves nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, leafy/earthy, floral. Taste is medium sweet, mild, caramel, floral, light bitter. Smooth and watery light body.

Keg, at the Princess Loiuse, Holborn, London.
Amber and nice enough to look at (for a keg beer) nothing out of the ordinary. If you pissed enough at the end of the night you wouldn’t mind drinking this stuff.