In search of the most effective bitter beers? Learn our information beneath, then try our favorite British beers, lagers and craft beers. Plus, learn all concerning the finest stouts to purchase and make one in every of our finest beer cocktails.
What’s bitter beer?
In contrast to the bitter, hop-driven beers that most individuals drink, a bitter beer is extra comparable in style to cider or pure wine. Bitter beers use a mix of yeasts and micro organism that end in a distinctively bitter style. Strategies range: some brewers will use cultivated yeasts, whereas Belgian lambics are left in open vats and depend on microorganisms within the air to ferment the beer. ‘Sours’ is a broad class and flavours vary from the briny tang of gose and light-weight tartness of a Berliner weisse to the fruitiness of a Flanders pink ale, or the bone-dry, champagne-like fizz of gueuze.
Finest bitter beers to strive at a look
- Finest tropical bitter beer: Vault Metropolis Triple Fruited mango, £3.50/440ml
- Finest gooseberry bitter beer: Magic Rock Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose, £2.29/330ml
- Finest Belgian bitter beer: Oude Gueuze Vieille Oud Beersel, £6.75/375ml
- Finest higher-strength bitter beer: Wild Beer Co. Modus Operandi, £7.99/500ml
- Finest non-sweet choice: Thornbridge Brewery Love Among the many Ruins, £7/375ml
- Finest berry flavoured bitter beer: Vault Metropolis strawberry sundae, £3.50/440ml
- Finest Scottish bitter beer: Holy Goat and Fierce Beer Terrorizer, £6.90/375ml
7 finest bitter beers to strive in 2023
Vault Metropolis Triple Fruited Mango
Finest tropical bitter beer
ABV: 6.2%
A recent, juicy bitter, rammed with mango flavour and aromas, mild tanginess and a barely saline edge.
Out there from:
Tesco (£3.50/440ml)
Magic Rock Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose
Finest
ABV: 4.1%
Evenly bitter and tart with a briny edge and juicy gooseberry flavours.
Out there from:
Magic Rock Brewing (£2.50/330ml)
Amazon (£2.29/330ml)
Oude Gueuze Vieille Oud Beersel
Finest Belgian bitter beer
ABV: 6%
A mix of lambics, this has nice effervescence and a fruity, advanced tartness.
Out there from:
The Belgian Beer Co. (£6.75/375ml
Wild Beer Co. Modus Operandi
Finest higher-strength bitter beer
ABV: 7.7%
A barrel-aged bitter pink with plenty of berry flavours.
Out there from:
Wild Beer Co (£7.99/500ml)
Thornbridge Brewery Love Among the many Ruins
Finest non-sweet choice
ABV: 7%
Thought that each one fruit beers have been candy? Suppose once more. This poetically named Flemish-style bitter beer gained gold on the World Beer Cup Awards in 2016 and it isn’t laborious to see why. Aged in Burgundy wine barrels with morello cherries for greater than a 12 months, this bottle delivers vivid fruit flavours mixed with a punchy sourness. Complicated and stylish.
Out there from:
Thornbridge Brewery (£7/375ml)
Vault Metropolis Strawberry Sundae
Finest berry bitter beer
ABV: 5%
A clean and full-bodied strawberry bitter made with Scottish strawberries. Drink with mac ’n’ cheese topped with pulled pork for a distinction, or to enhance a dessert equivalent to eton mess.
Out there from:
Vault Metropolis (£3.50/440ml)
Holy Goat and Fierce Beer Terrorizer
Finest Scottish bitter beer
ABV: 6%
Made in Dundee, this advanced barrel-aged blackcurrant bitter is a mix of fifty% golden bitter beer aged in a tank for six months (brewed at Holy Goat), plus a 50% rye bitter aged in barrels for greater than two years at Fierce Beer brewery in Aberdeen. Take pleasure in with steak, sport, brie or chocolate.
Out there from:
Holygoat Beer (£6.90/375ml)
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