Twickenham Advantage

Formerly brewed at Twickenham Fine Ales
Style: Bitter
Twickenham, England

Cask at GBBF 2006. An orange beer with no head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of hops. The flavor is sweet and very fruity combined with a light note of diacethyl. Too sweet and not enough hops to balance it.

Cask (gravity dispense) at Ealing Beer Festival, May 2006. A conspicuously forceful session bitter. Attractive coppery amber colour. Plenty of flinty, resinous hops on the nose, but not too extreme. Dry, bitter, slightly puckering mouthfeel. Grapefruit on the flavour. Just a smidgen of dry malt. Distinctly austere, but I like bitters in that style.

Cask @ The Roebuck, Hampton Hill (London). Dark amber / orange color with a small head. Sweet floral hop aroma with notes of roastet malt. A refreshing hoppiness with a dry and bitter slightly nutty malt fininsh.

Cask at Bedford BF ’06. Dark orange. Sweet floral hop aroma. Only the faintest touch of citrus fruits before the slight bitter finish. Uncomplicated, middle of the road. Not bad.

Cask Conditioned at Ealing Beer on Broadway Festival, 2006. Murky orange. Sweet malt base with heavy floral hopping. A touch of dicatyl and a soapy finish.

Cask Handpump at the Black Horse, Darwen 26/03/2006 Slightly fruity aroma. Golden amber coloured with some sour fruit flavour. Dry and slightly bitter nutty malt finish.

Half pint gravity fed at the Battersea Beer Fest, clear golden colour with a frothy head. A very strong citrus and peach aroma - a refreshing hoppiness. A malty flavour - I’m struck by the smoothness, though the finish is overly tart.

Cask at the Clubhouse, Twickenham. A bitter with a rather strange finish. Soapy. Not very aromatic - not too successful!