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Real Ales (Tasting Notes)
This
list contains all the Real Ales that have been available at the
bar since our opening in April 2001 and is growing continually!
We always have three Ales available at any given time. Hyperlinks
to the Breweries exist wherever possible.
Tasting
notes are supplied by a trained CAMRA tasting panel and are taken
from the Good Beer Guide 2003. The Britannia Bar Café
would like to thank The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd for their permission
in allowing us to represent this information on our website.
The Good
Beer Guide can be purchased via the CAMRA
website.
CURRENTLY
SERVING (last update 15/05/2008)
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| Goacher's
Fine Light
ABV3.7% £ 2.70 pint |
Black
Sheep Bitter
ABV3.8% £ 2.70
pint |
| Adnams Broadside
ABV4.7% £ 2.70 pint |
BANKS'S
Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Plc
Park Brewery, Bath Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV1 4NY
Banks's
Bitter (ABV 3.8%)
A pale brown bitter with a pleasant balance of hops and malt.
Hops continue from the taste through to a bitter-sweet aftertaste.
Mansfield
Cask Ale (ABV 3.9%)
 BATTERSEA
The Battersea Brewery Co. Ltd.
43 Glycena Road, London SW11 5TP
Battersea
Bitter (ABV 4.0%)
 BRAINS
SA Brain & Co.
The Cardiff Brewery, Crawshay Street, Cardiff CF10 5TR
Brains
SA (ABV 4.2%)
Low aroma, amber colour, a rounded blend of flavours. Malt,
fruit and hops are accompanied by a building bitterness.
Rev James
(ABV 4.5%)
Pale brown, faint fruit, hop and malt aroma. Fruit and malt
dominate the flavour with faint hop and some bitterness. Finish
fades.
 COTTAGE
BREWERY
Cottage Brewing Co. Ltd.
The Old Cheese Dairy, Hornblotten Road, Lovington, Somerset BA7
7PS
Jack
The Whippet (ABV 4.0%)
 EVERARDS
Everards Brewery Ltd.
Castle Acres, Narborough, Leicester LE9 5BY
Tiger
Best Bitter (ABV 4.2%)
Mid-brown in colour, this somewhat unexciting brew has a malty nose
and a well-balanced palate that continues into a long, bitter-sweet
finish.
FLAGSHIP
Flagship Brewery Ltd.
Unit 2, Building 64, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TE
Admiral's
Bitter (ABV 3.8%)
Ensign
(ABV 4.2%)
A fruity ale, with a good balance of malt and hops.
Trafalgar
(ABV 4.1%)
Crow's
Nest (ABV 4.8%)
A straw coloured, sweet and fruity ale with a hoppy aroma
FULLER'S
Fuller, Smith & Turner Plc.
Griffin Brewery, Chiswick Lane South, Chiswick, London W4 2QB
London
Pride (ABV 4.1%)
Well-balanced, golden brown best bitter, with a hoppy aroma, a sweetish
fruity palate and a persistent malty, dryish finish.
 GALE'S
George Gale & Co. Ltd.
The Hampshire Brewery, Horndean, Hampshire PO8 0DA
GB (ABV
4.0%)
A medium-bodied deep golden brown brew that is initially malty sweet,
has a fruity middle period with a hint of burnt orange and a dry
hop flower-tasting bitter finish.
 JENNINGS
Jennings Bros. Plc.
Castle Brewery, Cockmouth, Cumbria CA13 9NE
Cumberland
Ale (ABV 4.0%)
A creamy amber-gold malty ale with hop resin and fruity notes; rising
bitterness balances well.
Crag
Rat (ABV 4.3%)
MARSTON'S
Marston, Thompson and Evershed Plc.
The Brewery, Shobnall road, Burton Upon Trent, Staffs DE14 2BW
Pedigree
(ABV 4.5%)
Sulphurous aroma gives way to hops. Tastes hoppy and fruity,
and leaves a bitter aftertaste
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