Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger (3.5%)

Brewed by Shepherd Neame
Style: Bitter
Faversham, England

Big light brown head. Light brown body with light carbonation. Roasty nutty caramelly aroma with hoppy notes. Kind of weak. Dry watery roasty nutty taste. Quite sweet, too. Dry wooden hoppy aftertaste. Too much water for my taste. (0.5l bottle from gr0ve.)

Copper-brown beer with weak blond head. Aroma is quite tastefull: malts, nuts, hops and some toffee. First mouthfull is nice and there are flavours but then everything disappear but maybe there are found malts, grass and bitter hops. Very thin and watery-like to drink. Very quickly disappering taste and watery palate spoils this beer and that is sad because there are some potency to make this better beer.

Bottle. Brown/red color with an off-white head. Aroma: Lightly roasted malt, caramel, nuts and some bitter hops. Flavor: Fruit, butterscotch, caramel, grass, minerals, bread and lightly roasted malt. Some bitterness in the aftertaste. Not that bad, but very watery and thin bodied.

500ml bottle. Dark orange, thin fluffy head. Simple english bitter aroma, hops and malt. Taste matches sweet and simple bitter, at times a little metallic. Presumably this was for the Swedish market.

500ml bottle bought in Umea, Sweden. Chestnut brown with a white head; malt and fruit aroma; thin with good malt flavour but also some vegetables; earthy hop finish, slightly spicy.

Bottle: Clear red/brown colour, with a thin head. Aroma of hay,gras, malts and som hopy nose in the end. Flavor was almost the same, some boild vegetable was there to, thin body, short finish.

500 ml bottle. Copper colour. Crystal clear. Medium-sized off-white fine-laced head that clings to the glass. Sweetish nutty and malty aroma with clean earthy hops. Crisp hop flavours. Mouthfeel is light and crisp, but also watery. Finishes somewhat empty because of the water. Drying grassy hops in the finish.

Bottled. Clear copper colour. Frothy head. Subtle notes of sweet caramel and Kentish hops in aroma, but not much malt profile. Watery with bit of butterscotch, bit of toast malts and UK hops. Flavourwise very nice but oh so lacking in body. Nice light bitterness.