Blue Brewing Mordue Workie
A tasty, complex beer with malt and hops throughout and a long satisfying bitter finish
3.3
176 reviews
Gateshead, England
Community reviews
Cask at the Blue Bell at Hoby. Pours brown body with white lace. Aroma has bready malts and berry hops. Taste is medium bitter. Palate is light to medium bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation and a lasting bitter finish. A very easy drinking bitter
500ml bottle. Pours brown/amber with a beige head. Malty bread, caramel, toffee, licorice and citrus in the nose. Taste is similar, some dark fruits and grapefruit peel. Fairly dry finish, medium bitterness. Very drinkable ale.
Crystal roast malts nose. Dark amber. Fair strength. Dark fruits molasses and smokie caramel hints. Clear to see why Champion beer in past. Floral malty and complex.
Cask handpull at The William Morris Hammersmith as Mordue Workie Ticket. Pleased to catch up with this ex Champion Beer of Britain. Pours a dark brown with an orange hue, clear upon close inspection but looks opaque from a distance, still with a bubbly off white head. Aroma is bready, some browned apple. Body is fairly light, smooth with soft carbonation. Taste is rounded and malty with suggestions of chocolate panettone, dates and fig, chocolate chip bread, teacake, chocolate brioche, twiggy bitterness in the finish. Malt forward with a soft balancing bitterness - borderline mild territory. You don't see beers like this any more - feels like a little slice of history. Quite enjoyable. Could definitely do a few pints of this of an evening. (5-4-7-4-15=3.5)
Mordue Workie Ticket
Bitter
646412
Lukt: Malt, krydder, frukter.
Utseende: Brun.
Skum/kullsyre: Tykt skum.
Smak: Malt, krydder, frukter.
Hvor: Beehive (JDW), Gatwick.
Medium: Tapp@500ml, ABV@4,5%, Når@30.01.2018
Bottle from Woodhorn Museum.
Appearance - amber brown with a decent head.
Nose - bran flakes, honeycomb.
Taste - caramel and brown bread. A hint of something citrus and cleansing towards the end.
Palate - light to medium bodied. Creamy and crunchy in texture.
Overall - good example of the style. Not sure I'd have guessed a champion beer of Britain.
Pint jolly fisherman craster. Great condition. Tasty brew. Fruity. Great head retention.
Cask at Wetherspoons 2007. (Backlog / historic rating from old records. NO tasting notes taken / kept) (Backlog)
Cask @ The Jolly Fisherman, Craster, Northumberland.
Red copper with beige head. Nice and clear body in the glass.
Certainly a malty mouthful with a sweet balanced medium length finish.
Pleasant brew.
Bottle, not sure where I bought it I’m afraid! Nice looking beer, head lasts well. Nice nose of crystal/roast malts...quite smoky. Malty flavours to the fore with nicely balanced hops on the finish. I like this, wish I could remember where I bought it!
Had this on cask many times over the years so was pleased to see this in bottle at a Bargain Booze. Red-brown colour with a white creamy head. Malty aroma with some leafy, peppery hop. Sweetish with a balance of bitterness to follow. Crisp, biscuit malt with some fruitiness and a long, dry bitter finish. Well-balanced and very drinkable - an excellent beer.
500ml catered by BeardedAvenger, ta! - Indeed complex and subtle, earthy with a subdued fruitiness and silky-smooth, all at a 4,5% modest ransom: the EU antidote to hypotactically destilled Belgian ale complexity... - Ar: Fresh cake dough, wet berry shrub, swet almond, ice tea brewed with ground water... Mouthfeel is on point, earthy and yet silky, again black leaf tea. Dry toffee, even dried maple syrup also in texture, turned into a quinine thristquencher by those leafy hops. Somewhere there is a residual yeast quality bitterness I cannot quite put my finger on...will have to further explore in situ. - Just like Franconian Kellers and draught lambiek, I could drink these by the bucket...
500ml Bottle. ( In a jug pint) roasted malt , deep caramel malt , autumn leaves , light subtle hop nose . Bright roasted Amber colour .. syrup colour. This is surprisingly delicious.. It’s been in my fridge for days ... I’m sorry I Overlooked this beverage. A lovely sweet/rich palate .. caramel, light roast , spicy hops . Deep roast malty vibes are really expressive . This low-boost Bitter lifts !!!!
Cask at praf 2016. Pours deep amber, nose is digestive biscuit, floral, taste is sweet, biscuity, toffee.
Pours deep copper with a good foamy head. Smells like a bitter. Smooth, hoppy taste. An ok bitter
500ml bottle, shared at home with MarcusM on 10th Oct 2015: the third beer in a random tasting evening. Pours a clear bronze hued amber with an off-white head. Aroma was caramel/molasses and roasted malts with a trace of nuts. Tasted as the nose suggested: roasted malts, caramel sweet, nutty. Add some dark berry flavours and a some mixed herbs and spices to the mouth feel and you get a very pleasant and tasty beer. Had this in cask form many years ago, can not really remember it’s characteristics from back then, so can not compare.
Nice pint in the classic English style without setting the world alight darker thn average rocky head oaty with nice mouthfeel.
From a bottle that was actually 7 months after its best before dat, it has a banana and malt aroma, almost Trappist like. Although there is an initial malt sweetness , it finishes with a slightly bitter tang
Pours deep dark classic bitter brown, aroma of chocolate and sweet malt, taste to follow with bit fruit, nut and slight dry bitter finish very tasty and nicely balanced beer
Maker: Mordue, North Shields, England; Beer: Workie Ticket (cask, at The Plough, Alnwick; Style: Bitter; ALC.VOL.: 4.5%; Colour: Dark copper, small beige head; Nose: Faint malts, red berries; Texture: Medium body, quite watery, minimal carbonation; Taste: Red berries, dark chocolate, wee roasted malts, some floral notes. Middle is still a bit chocolaty, with smoked(!) malts, caramel. Finish: A bit of licorice, still wee smoky, minimal hops. Still dry though. Lasting bitter aftertaste of chocolate malts; Impressions: Interesting dark ale with an individual flavour, especially the smoky malts. Not bad at all!
Bottle. Broze, lively on opening.Slightly bitter with some nuttiness. This was CAMRA’s overall champion beer of 1997 which shows how tastes have moved on. Probably a good cask beer but below average in bottle form.
Cask at Kitty’s, Helsinki. Colour is clear dark copper with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, dry fruits, nuts and malts. Nice tasty and fruity bitter.
(Cask at Kitty’s, 20150417) The beer poured mahogany coloured and clear. Its head was small, almost white and it lasted long. Aroma had toasted malts, biscuits, molasses and earth. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were toasted malts, earth, biscuits, nuts, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste had toasted dark bread and bitter. A very pleasant and nicely complex brew.
Bottle. Pours a clear deep amber with a froathy off white head. Aroma of caramel and roasted malts, nuts, berry fruitiness and some spices. Taste of roasted malts, caramel, nuts, berry fruits and spicy hop bitterness. Medium bodied and soft carbonation. A bitter roasted finish. A nicely balanced beer.
500ml bottle from Cornelius. Pours clear copper brown, thick off-white head. Sweet malty aromas, nuts and light spice. Taste is more of the same, faint bitterness at the back. Medium body, creamy texture, clean finish. Solid bitter.
Backlog: cask @pub in Newcastle 2009. Deep chestnut color, small creamy head; sweet malty nose, caramel, nuts; sweetbitter taste, toffee notes; medium-bodied; tasty and nice bitter.
Mahogany. Dense and persistent beige head and lacing. Aroma of dark malt, chocolate biscuits and berries. Similarly fine taste. Well balanced.
0,5 flaske innkjøpt av skibsreder Ovesen og delt med ham på Holmens aktivitetsdag: højt skum som varer til bunns. Nydelig ravfarge og floral aroma. Lett bitterhet i smak og fruktig ettersmak. Meget lettdrikkelig og en utmerket pøsebitter på pub, men hvorfor den ble kåret til Champion beer of Britain i 1999 skjønner jeg ikke helt, synes at den er litt i enkleste laget. Kanskje det er derfor den glir så ubesværet over ganen.
Bottle from Tesco Windy Nook. Pours deep ruby colour. Strong malty flavours. Lovely beer
Bottle from ASDA. Amber with a small off-white head. Quite sweet and malty with caramel notes. A bit fruity with a more bitter finish. Nice enough, but not sure why this was ever a champion beer of Britain.