Whitstable Kentish Reserve

Brewed by Whitstable
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Maidstone, England

Cask @ The Market Porter. Amber with an off white head. Nose is quite aromatic, tropical fruit, apple and citrus hop characters with a sweet malty base, kinda Crouch Vale-esque. Taste is much the same, although not as intense as the aroma suggests, slightly bland with a hint of bitterness in the finish. Shows promise but falls just short.

Handpulled cask at the Trafalgar, South Wimbledon.(October). Copper with a white head. Good all round special bitter with a generous helping of Kentish hops.

(Cask) Clear amber golden with a small, off-white head. Fresh and fruity nose with a whiff of nuts. Medium body, flat, accents of caramel and fruit. Finishes dry. Nice one. 210908

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, and so is the flavor though added a note of butterscotch, leading to a dry bitter finish.

Cask@Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Reddish ambery colour, mediumsized creamy head. Lacing. Aroma is fruity hops, some very sweetish nectary notes as well as some mild glueish sweetness lurking. Flavour is hops, apricot and mild peach along with wood and some mild yeastyness. Quite compex, but still not that interesting.

Cask at Olivert Twist, Stockholm. Pale brown. Perfumy, lightly appley nose. Medium sweet and medium bodied. Theres’s a touch of roastiness and bread and a fair amount of floral hops. Finished with good, somewhat resiny bitterness.

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a hazy reddish brown colour with a frothy pale yellow lasting foam. Fruity and rather hop aromatic aroma of oranges, soil, spices, red berries, resin and old grapefruits. Medium-bodied with malty notes of earth and nuts with fruity undertones of red berries. Long medium-bitter finish of soily, earthy and orangey hops.

(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 17 June 2008) Dark amber colour with frothy, beige head. Fruity nose with notes of dried apricots, orange and citrus peel. Fruity taste with orange, apricots and a nicely balanced dose of earthy hops in the finish. Fairly dry, well balanced. Nice beer.