Tetleys English Ale

Brewed by Leeds (Carlsberg UK)
Style: Bitter
Leeds, England

Sampled on nitro tap at the Stray Cat Bar & Grill. Light amber color, decent head for being on nitro. Very firm bitterness. Slightly uninteresting flavor as cold as they served it, but after I let it warm up considerably, there was quite a nice caramel, toasted nut, and biscuity character that came out. A straight-forward beer that I could see drinking all night.

Pours, brownish orange with a tall thick white head. Excellent retention. Aroma is light malty and sweet. The fravour is bitter, and malty. The beer is very rich and creamy but not very impressive.

14.9 oz/440ml can, weird size. Initially pours butterscotch with heavy cascading, after all is settled turns to dark amber-copper with a 3 finger very creamy eggshell head that has excellent retention and leaves a little lacing. Aroma is grainy malt, dusty apples, cardboard, white bread crust, planty hops, some mineral notes and just a hint of raw nuts. Flavor is plain white dinner rolls, planty hops, a little butterscotch, sweet biscuity malt, saltine cracker, slightly bitter hops most of the way through. The finish brings milder bitter and planty hops, lightly toasted and salted nuts, and some light banana pudding notes. Palate is predictable boring, moderately dry throughout with that typical nitro induced "creaminess" (though honestly much less overbrearing than similar ales) and a slightly more dry finish. Overall this isn’t a bad bitter as far as the canned widget variety goes. Still, not great and at $8/4pk certainly not a good value, but not bad.

Draught at Pig-N-Whistle pub, Brisbane. Pours a murky amber with a small white head. Sweet malt aroma with some earthy notes. The flavour is bread, malt and fruit. Someone mentioned it tasted like detergent, and it did have a watery, soapy mouthfeel. There’s a subtle hop bitterness towards the finish. Underwhelming to say the least.

Body poured a deep copper almost amber color, a massive thick creamy head was produced when the beer was cascading, looks so dam good. A very malty banana aroma that was just slightly bitter was wafting up from my beer, but overall the sent was rather weak. Taste was very mild and just slightly bitter, weak tasting malts and a touch of banana. Extremely watery mouth feel, thin and empty, this beer is drinkable but I can’t give any reason as to why you should drink it. Very weak tasting ESB, I think it would do bitter in just the plain old “bitter” category, but even then it still would suck."

Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is mild with some caramel malts and a decent hop character. Sweet at first with the malts but finishes slightly bitter from the hops. A pretty decent bitter.

Review done with canned version, not on tap - which is a little better. Sure it’s got the usual brilliant cascade, the insanely thick off-white pillow on top and the nice clear medium brown apperance which is nothing new, and although quite the scene to watch unravell, this is what you get from the average english pub draught. What gives this beer the extra appeal is the inside the liquid lacing on my glass everytime is pound more back - and my glass is still covered in a bubbly film from the pour. Sweet caramelly aroma comes along with the unknown aroma that dominates your nose - there’s something dark there...and then the aftersmell of something left in a gymbag creeps up on you. Try not to review this too cold or it has almost no qualities. Very smooth, but it feels like I’m drinking wax. Mildly bitter. Looks like I’m going to have to use an industrial strength cleaner or a pressure washer to rid my glass of the massive moraines left from the glacier-like head. Tastes like soap! Mmm! Mmm! Soapy good. Anyone else have flashbacks of their parents washing their mouthes out with Jerkins Soft Soap for using the word "twat"????? Probally. Good thing the flavour doesn’t last. Mouthfeel remnants is no more than a thick spit. Taste is no more than malts and mildly flavoured hops. Thank god I’m done choking back the last of this crap beer. Christ, I’ve got 3 more to drink.....

Weak aroma of sweet malt. Pours a clear golden amber with a two finger creamy head that stays for the entire session. A great looking beer. Flavor is weak and simplle, some malt, a touch of hops. Not much going on here. Drink it cold and it’s my type of lawn mower beer.