Theakston Paradise Ale (Bottle)

Appearance: Dark golden, nice amount of head. Aroma: Malt, metallic. Quite fruity. Taste: Quite malty, some fruit. Malty/strong/bitter aftertaste. Info: 500ml bottle, 6/6-2007

500 ml bottle. Hoppy and faintly floral aroma. Pours in a golden colour with a huge frothy white head. Well laced. Nicely balanced malt and hop flavours, some woody and nutty notes. Dry bitter finish.

Bottle (500ml). Purchased at Waitrose. Pale, clear gold, tons of tiny little bubbles, smallish creamy-fizzy white head - this is supposed to remind me of a bitter? Sweet light malt aroma, floral hops. Taste - light sweet grain, just a hint of light roast, somewhat more pungent fresh hop character in the taste, very crisp - quite pleasant, actually. Light, crisp mouthfeel, tons of carbonation, incredibly quick finish, light fresh hay sweetness on the tongue afterward - pretty nice, but seems more of a Golden Ale to me.

Bottle from Waitrose. Attractive bright amber colour. Almost no aroma. Watery, thin flavour. Very disappointing.

Bottle from Waitrose, Thame, Oxon, 27-07-07 Poured amber in colour with white head, I drank half of this before I even realised that I had barely taken any notice of it. A fairly standard bitter but very boring and with little to make it stand out.

Bottle from Waitrose. The beer poured a bright amber colour with a thin white head, Aroma of malt and very light and fruity,. Not bad but not brilliant.

Bottled, pasteurised, 500ml. Gold with slight head. thinnish and slightly mettalic but with a bittersweet background and saving late hop. Floral and relatively bitter. its fine.

Nose is a little metallic and acidy. Pours copper gold. The flavour extends the nose and actually gets kind of worse really - thin and unpleasantly astringent. The finish appeases some, but not enough to make anything of this beer.