Belhaven Best (Bottle and Keg)
Keg, can and bottle: Pasteurised.
Previously known as 70/-. Previously at 3.5%.
Experience the best of everything with """"""""the cream of Scottish beer"""""""". Its light creamy head with lacing to the bottom of the glass gives you a taste that’s refreshing and moreish with a hint of hop.
Previously known as 70/-. Previously at 3.5%.
Experience the best of everything with """"""""the cream of Scottish beer"""""""". Its light creamy head with lacing to the bottom of the glass gives you a taste that’s refreshing and moreish with a hint of hop.
2.8
334 reviews
Dunbar, Scotland
Community reviews
amber. not nice vaguely malty smell and taste. just about drinkable. stay away
Bue au Castle Arms à Edimbourg. Bière ambrée au nez malté. Bouche douce et peu alcoolisée. Facile à boire
Mörk mahognyfärgad med fint beige skum. Doftar lite svagt av malt. Smaken mjuk, fyllig, lite besk och söt. Eftersmaken tämligen kort, ytterst liten beska.
Keg at The Crofter in Fort William. Was given this in a hurry when asked for a nice local ale... Eeehhh, thanks a lot... Looks alright, light gold with white foam. Slightly corny, fruity, moderately malty... not too much going on though. Very soft and mild on the palate, very subdued bitterness. Fine mellow carbonation. Not too shabby for a pub ale. Better as a whole than in parts.
Keg at an Irish pub in Edinburgh. Nose is chocolate, bread, toasty coffee. Palate is very creamy coffee, citrus, bread. Nice creamy bitter.
Jan 2018 - Keg at The Horse Shoe, Glasgow. As 'Belhaven Best Extra Cold'. Pours amber orange with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is airy, malty, nothing much to it. Body is rounded with soft carbonation. Taste is creamy, almost lactic, rounded light malts, pale biscuits, no real bitterness to it. Not much character but what's there is OK. Calls itself the 'cream' of Scottish beer, which is a bold statement to make, but in saying that it is actually kinda creamy in a way. The John Smith's of Scotland. (4-4-4-4-11=2.7)
Nitro keg at Glasgow Airport Wetherspoons. It looks pretty nice as nitro keg bitters tend to but beyond that is just a cold nothingness, neither smells nor tastes of anything really. Ultra smooth so slips down easily but I don't really see it as more interesting than something like Bud really.
Tap. Clear amber color. Medium size, thick beige head, stays. Malty, sour, grainy, acidic in aroma. Berries, caramel, citrus, herbal, tannins in taste. Tannins, herbal, sweetish in aftertaste. Mild bitterness. I don't like the berries. Soft carbonation. Weird shit.
Tap st drink baar. Pours amber with whiteish head. Aroma is sweet, bitter, fruits, toffee. Flavor is sweet, somewhat sour, bitter, fruits, malt, some hops. Overall: drinkable.
Keg in the Volley Fort William. A classic Scottish 50 Shilling. Truly awful. How did I survive on this stuff for so,many years. Thankfully not often now. Served cold, little malt, little hop, mainly water.
Draft @ The Crown Hotel, Lockerbie. Amber coloured with no head courtesy of the barkeeper. Mild aroma of malts and biscuit. Taste is biscuit, slightly malty and hints of floral hops. Low carbonation. Smooth. Ok for what it is.
Fass 1 pt (0,568l): Kupfer, trüb, deutlicher mittelporiger Schaum; frische würzige Nase, angenehme Hopfennoten, leichte Röstaromen, angenehme Bitterkeit; frischer würziger Körper, deutliche Hopfennoten, cremig, deutliche Kohlensäure, Röstaromen, angenehme Bitterkeit; angenehmer würzig-bitterer Nachgang
Straight from can. Aroma: biscuit malts. Light body. The taste is diluted malts and finishing floral hops. Nothing special really.
On tap. Golden color with white head. Malt aroma. Bitter, hop and malt taste.
Frisch gezapft. Klar und dunkelgolden mit großer, cremiger Schaumkrone. Leichte Malznoten. Leichter Körper. Süßlich.
440ml Draught Flow System can. ABV now only 3.2%. Copper colour with the expected creamy head. Aroma is light sweet malt. Taste is malty with a faintly floral hop note. Not bad at all considering the ABV of 3.2%.
My first beer in Scotland. It looks nice, am er color qoth a cream colored head. Aroma has malt, and it is very light. Flavor is light as welll with a mineral, almost chemical quality. Bitter malt flavor. No notable hop presence. Truly the Cream Of Scottish Beer.
(Belhaven Best (Bottle and Keg)) Tap at Hotel and Folk Pub Terminus, Den Bosch, full pint.
Amber coloured body, clear, tall and thick, creamy head on top, with very good retention.
The aroma has light caramel, straw and some nice, light hoppy notes.
Taste is of caramel and metal, straw, some hop presence too on the back, mildly bitter.
Medium thin body.
Decent bitter.
Pours orange-golden with a nice frothy head. Light, creamy, malty, full mouth with a pleasant hop finish. This is an extremely drinkable and refreshing and light beer.
Can @ Cirro’s Italian Restaurant, Callandar. Pours amber, creamy white head. Aroma is very light malt. Taste is smooth, creamy and extremely light. Almost tastes watery and even aerated. I like a nice bitter, but this is simply lacking in character. Can’t think of any situation where I’d willingly drink this again.
Backlog rating: Tried in the hotel in Lochaline on holiday, April 2016. Pint pours pale amber with creamy white head, leaving good lacing. Aroma slightly insipid citrus, biscuity, lacking depth. Thin and watery, pretty bland and flat.
Served too cold, pours a brown colour, bitter with a slight malty taste, keg at the Hebrides in Edinburgh
Can from Copper and Oak Liquor Merchants 190516. Full bodied and quite creamy in the mouth but I’m just not all that fussed about the flavour. Looks quite good with a strong amber colour and a lush thick creamy head of foam. I can’t imagine drinking a lot of this beer as one pint is enough for me.
Very standard affair malty nose thick creamy head very easy but bland drinking
Perhaps 10-20 thousand pints of it from living in Scotland for 6 years. Perfectly fine, really easy drinking bitter that’s light on flavor but refreshing and pairs nicely with pies.
Deep amber creamy head. Sweet aroma flowed by sweet caramel malt flavour and mild bitter balance and fruity hint. Tasty yet low abv makes this a great value decent easy drinker
Tap @ Terminus Den Bosch. Clear rusty orange color, average sized dense creamy white to off-white head that lasts forever. Smell and taste malts, hops, lightly bitter. Nice typical bitter. Pleasant.
Backlog rating. Draft in Edinbourgh, reminiscence if the trip from 2014. It pours a clean golden color with a small white head. Aroma is grainy and dry, light grassy bitterness and straw. Taste is grainy, slightly sweet upfront an more dry and bitter afterwards, with notes if grass, straw and starch. Light bodied with lively carbonation. Overall, meh
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Pours a golden colour with creamy head. Nothing on the nose or palate. Very plain and not recommended. Clear, watery, low carbonation.,