White Horse Bitter (Bottle)

White Horse
Brewed at Titanic (UK)
Style: Bitter
Stanford-in-the-Vale, Faringdon, England

Pale amber colour. Massive hop aroma. Flavour is quite sweet and fruity at first, a little malt also comes through. The bitter hop dryness completes the well rounded flavour.

Bottle, 4th Sept 2009. Bottle labelled 4.1% abv. Pours brown with yellow tinged white head that lasts and laces on glass. strong herby aroma detectable as soon as bottle opened. grassy hempy hop kick and a long bitter finish. Very flavoursome for its strength

From bottle. Strong malt aroma. Golden colour with a thin lace. Initial flavour of malt but then turns thin in texture. Hops and hint of honey.

Textbook bitter, ok stuff. It’s malty with some mild hoppy character with a hint of spice on the finish. Good quaffable beer.

Bottle. Golden with a thin head. Looks terrible in the clear bottle. Aromas are sweet biscuit malts with citrus. Some marmalade notes with some woodiness. Flavours are biscuit and caramel malts with sweet lemon. Dry hops but low bitterness. Reasonable.

Gold with a thin white head. Aroma of some very tired, stale hops with supporting honey. Flavour was subdued with a hint of honey and more hops which had seen better days. Poor.

A hazy, golden orange coloured beer with only a light lacing of white head. The initial aroma on opening the bottle was of sweet fruits, peaches and apricots, but then a dull, damp hop smell comes in. The taste is dry and bitter, with plenty of the fruity elements from the aroma. Again, peaches, apricots and a hint of citrusy orange and grapefruit, there is a little hoppy flavour, which gives way to a dry malty taste in the finish. (Bottle - pasteurised, purchased from sainsbury’s, King’s Lynn, Norfolk for £ 1.59 a bottle).