Wye Valley Bitter

Brewed by Wye Valley
Style: Bitter
Hereford, England

[Cask] A nutty brown (brown-orange) beer with a bubbly fine head. The nose is light with a hoppy bitter note. The flavor is cask flat perfumated malty note with an OK bitterness running across the tongue. Is it the hop or the yeast that makes it taste artificial? A boring bitter. The artificial flavor kills it.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium yellow amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, apple notes. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20090806]

Cask@GBBF2009. Ambery golden colour, not much head. Aroma is hops, grass, wood and mildly fruity. All this in a very mild/weak way. Flavour is quite much the same. Rather mellow and bland.

[Hand pumped] Amber color. Poor aroma. Nice, fresh taste in the front; too watery later. Bitter final, but maybe too long hop infusion.

Cask handpull Ship & Mitre Liverpool. Copper, thin off white head. Some citrus aromas. Bit watery in mouth. Some lemon/lime and hop on the end. Just a little indistinct that’s all. Not much of anything.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Amber color, small beige head. Light nutty aroma. Light caramel, some woody hops. Decent body for 3.7% beer. Simple and uninspiring. A bit too sweet for being even a session beer.

Cask@Catford Beer Festival. Pretty smooth, with some lightly sweet crystal malt type flavours. Light wholemeal crackers and light earthy, citric hops, a little thin for my liking and slightly beelow average.

Cask conditioned at The Church Inn, Ludlow.
Orange brown beer with lacing head. This has a dry caramel background with a light roasted flavour and a bitterness that totally takes over the flavour. Fresh hop flavours renew the interest in a good all round session bitter.