Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger (Pasteurised)

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	70
	overall

Brewed by Shepherd Neame
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Faversham, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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Ratings	Average	Score	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
378	3.25/5.0	3.25/5.0	5.4%	77.9	English pint

Commercial Description:
Available filtered and pasteurised in bottles and cans.
NOTE: Only ratings for the bottled vesrion should be entered here. The cask version has a separate listing.

Full-bodied with complex fruit flavours, Bishops Finger is a strong premium cask-conditioned ale brewed to a traditional Kentish recipe. What’s behind the name? Well, a Bishops Finger is an unusual finger-shaped signpost still found in Kent, which once pointed pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. Only the finest malted barley, Kent hops and fresh water from our own artesian well are used in the production of one of Britain’s best-loved ales, which is also exported in bottles to more than 30 countries worldwide.

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Muggus69 (517), Sydney, Australia

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	7/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

Oct 9, 2008

Notes from old review... Served at cellar temperature in Duvel glass. Nice big sweet aroma; biscuity, nutty toffee and a tad of citrus hop. Clean bronze body with creamy white head atop with lace. Rich full body. Biscuity malts, notes of toffee, hop flavour lifts at the end. Finish lingers a bit, reasonably bitter. Tasty drop this one.

tlind2 (604), Helsinki, Finland

3.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.1	6/10	4/5	6/10	3/5	12/20

Sep 28, 2008

500 ml bottle. Deep copper color, off-white head. Hoppy, fruity aroma. Bitter flavor with some metallic notes and a touch of cured wood.

esox (265), Oulu, Finland

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	6/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

Sep 23, 2008

Bottled. Copper to amber coloured beer. Pours with a rich, floffy and a bit cloudy head that leaves very nice lacing. Hoppy aroma has fruits (apricot, water melon), pine and resin hops and some floral notes. Malts are caramel sweetish. Flavor is dominated by the pine-like bitterness and balanced with some malty sweetness. The finish is long and quite straightforward: bitter without notable fruity aromas. Palate is medium bodied, soft carbonated and in the finish sticky bitter.

MiP (9080), Sønderborg, Denmark

2.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.9	5/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	13/20

Sep 21, 2008

Bottle at EBF08. Weak nutty aroma. The flavour is malty and nutty, quite round. Roasted hint in the finish. Clear chestnut colour.

skortila (2903), Bunnik, Netherlands

2.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.7	5/10	3/5	6/10	3/5	10/20

Sep 20, 2008

Aroma has some malts and hops. Not very strong. Clear, copper-brown coloured with a lasting, off-white head. Taste is sweet, malty with more hopbitter in the end. Touch of butter. Not really special.

MrAleman (111), Wiltshire, England

3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3	6/10	4/5	3/10	3/5	14/20

Sep 16, 2008

Yeah, quite enjoyable, a mixture of sweetness and bitterness in this bottled beer, Indeed i enjoy it and would suggest other bitter fans would too. Nice enough.

gary07734 (406), Tyne & Wear, England

2.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.9	7/10	3/5	6/10	4/5	9/20

Sep 14, 2008

Dark ruby-brown pour, little head, taste is malty, christmas pudding like, bitter finish. Fairly average.

yespr (12135), Copenhagen O, Denmark

2.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.7	5/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	11/20

Sep 14, 2008

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and deep orange with a fully gone head. Mild spiced and vague butterish. Light sweetness and spiced hoppy. Medium dry and mild spiced and bitter finish.

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