Here’s some quick tasting notes for the Ordinary Bitter I brewed a few weeks ago. Its a lovely beer, one of the best bitters I’ve brewed I think. I don’t know how much of that I can attribute to the water treatment, but it certainly didn’t hurt. I finally ordered a pH meter, which should take some of the guessing out in future.
Smell: Slight spiciness from hops, then nutty caramel notes from the crystal malt. Some dark fruit as well.
Taste: Slight sweetness and spice, followed by some subtle fruitiness with the malt. Firm, lingering bitterness, but not too harsh. Keeps bringing you back for gulp after gulp.
Mouthfeel: Carbonation is spot on. It would taste much better from a cask, but this is one of my best efforts for a ~3.5% bitter. Not too thin, but doesn’t pretend to be a 5% beer either.
Drinkability & Notes: Shame about the murkiness---it would have been a beautiful beer if it was bright---but still very happy with this one. You have to let it warm up a bit before opening it, but if you do it reminds me of plenty of beers I’ve drank back home. The bitterness from the WGV is a little brasher than you’d get from EKG (higher cohumulone perhaps?), but it works well here. Very drinkable. If I wasn’t so busy with work at the moment, these would have all gone by now.
[By the way, if Ordinary Bitter is your thing, Boak and Bailey put a great post up about Boddington’s today.]
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