Moorhouse Premium Bitter

Tied house beer festivals bring out the worst in beer geeks like me. I can't be satiated when I am onto a good thing - I always have to keep digging. I can understand how people become hardcore tickers, and browsing through the archives of my blog sometimes make me feel like a ticker! I think I will mix the format of this blog up come the new year, but for now it stays. It was my new years resolution after all.

Anyhow, it was Rich's shout and after harassing Dillon (The Ray Quinn look-a-like who runs The Victoria) we settled on two pints of Moorhouse Premium Bitter (3.7% abv). The beer is a amber coloured session quaffer and is smooth with a hoppy flavour. think John Smiths with a malty smoothness and a hoppy aftertaste and you will be close to the mark. Not a remarkable, but very drinkable and probably better than similar beers such as Brakspear Bitter. Well it doesn't have that sulphery smell that the Brakspear Bitter has.

Moorhouse has been brewing since 1865 and has been owned by such legends as Thomas Fawcett (the maltster). More history can be found on the website.