Double Diamond Original Burton Ale (Export)

Pasteurised Keg, Bottle or Can.

NOTE: The UK draught keg version is 3.1% and has a separate listing.

2.8

206 reviews

Leeds, England

Community reviews

4.2 ] Preface: You may find me guilty of rating this beer higher than it deserves, simply for nostalgic reasons. When I was a pup, too young to drink legally in Michigan, my friends and I had a habit of drinking in Windsor, Ontario. We would drink in dive bars, and rock & roll bars (listening to cover bands playing the Police, Clash, AC-DC, Led Zep), and decent restaurants (great seafood and French cuisine in Windsor, by the way), but usually at my favorite place - the Coach & Horses Pub, where they had a decent lineup of tap and cask beer from the British Isles, including Double Diamond. So when I could have stayed closer to home on a Friday night paying top dollar to older guys or to disreputable NE Detroit liquor store owners for a sixer of Bud or Michelob, instead I was hanging out across the border, learning to drink English ales the proper way - at cellar temp while relaxing with friends and throwing darts. OK, enough of that, on with the review… Nowadays, Double Diamond pours a somewhat cloudy dark amber brown, with a good inch or so of off white head. Good head retention, good lacing. Mild malty aroma, no big deal. Ah, the flavor - the taste of my misspent youth. Smooth and malty, lightly sweet, lightly bready, with a definite biscuit taste throughout. Finishes with just enough of a hop bite to let you know its there. Medium body, full soft carbonation. Smooth drinkable and oh so session able. Enjoyed on tap. Thanks for the memories, and the trip down memory lane (aka Windsor’s Oullette Blvd). Now I really miss Watney’s!!!

2.7 I had this in the Angel Inn pub while staying at Niagara on the lake in Canada with my wife. We stayed at the Prince of Wales hotel and had a great time. This beer was alittle to hoppy for my taste though.

3.1 Orange to amber in color with a very nice head, good solid retention, nice continuous lacing. Aroma was toffee and fruity esters. The flavor was fruity, tea bags, watery with a slight hop touch in the finish. Moderate body and carbonation noticeable.

3.0 Verre de 12 oz, provenant d’un fût, dégusté à l’Île Noire (Montréal, QC). Arôme: Odeur de caramel et de pommes (?). Apparence: La couleur est ambrée. Présence d’un moyen col crémeux et d’une fine large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de caramel. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est mince avec une texture légèrement crémeuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de noix en arrière goût. (Rating #617)

3.6 can: Now here is a pefect metaphor for a great beer on tap vs. its inferior version in the can. I am going to be bias (although I can see the canned version lacking) because I love it on tap (the can is a pale imitation). It has a great orange colour with a thin white head which lasts. Lively hop and fruity aroma and taste (hard to find in cans around here) which can taste a little odd from the can, and can come across as sour and thin. It does manage to be sweet (faint toffee, caramel?). Great medium body. Smooth mouthfeel and awesome finish for a flavourful bitter (i.e. not too dry and bitter). Smooth, sweet, fruity and creamy. Look for it on tap but a can with spicy food will do. Obviously not everyone has a liking for bitters, but this is a really good example of what they try to be.

1.5 From the can. No wonder they don’t sell this swill in Britain anymore. I don’t find many redeeming qualities in this ale; it’s got an oh-too-sharp taste that doesn’t sit of the palate very well. It doesn’t go down particularily well, either.

2.0 Alot of sweetness to this one, bready, almost too sweet for me, better as it warms, but nothing good, on tap at the old bulldog pub, Upland, California.

3.0 On tap. Amber with a decent white head. Great lace rings. Bready aromas with a floral hop background. Some caramel is notices after it warms a bit. Fairly light palate, bready malt flavors. Medium bitter finish. Not too bad.

2.2 500ml nitro can. Typical nitro pour and dense finger-thick head. Amber colour. Very faint aromas of caramel and apple, chalky/minerally aroma too. Light palate, low carbonation, fairly bland to be honest.

3.3 Aroma: Sweet malt light hops Appearance: Clear amber Flavor: sweet carmel malt light bitterness Palate: Light for a sweet malty beer Overall: Good drinkn’ brew

3.1 440ml can, gold-amber color, with caskflow widget system, making a thick white creamy head, with floral hops, sweet crystal malt, buttery note in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a smooth sweet malt character, faint floral hops, leading towards a bready, semisweet toasted grain finish.

3.0 Hazy amber color with a medium white head. Sweet caramel malt aroma. Sweet caramel and slightly bitter flavor.

3.0 Nice golden body for a pale ale. Medium carbonation, sweet aroma with light hops. Some malts, light fruit accents in the body. Clean with a light bitter ending.

2.3 Remarkably middle of the road. Looks like a nice pint, body is too thin to recommend it. Just a bit of crystal malt, hops are there, but generic. Lacks anything distinguishing.

3.0 Tap at the Berkley front. Somewhat dominated by earthy british hops, decent malts underneath. Medium body. Not very bitter for a bitter, but still very english tasting.

2.0 A mild bitterness with a flurry foaming head. A watery swilland nothing to write home about.

2.2 One day I bought one can of every beer that was not available in a bottle at my local liquor store. For some reason I assumed I would like this one the best and saved it for the last. I was disappointed. It’s OK but there are much better English brews to have. Even in New Brunswick.

2.9 500 ml nitro can Pours a very cloudy dark orange beer with a small, white, tight and creamy head. Sweet caramelly aroma, pleasant, with touches of orange, chocolate and raisins. Flavor is bitter, not very strong but smooth. There are some hints of coffee and bitter chocolate. It has no carbonation at all, but feels smooth with its oily texture. It’s a weird brew, definitely not for everyone.

2.4 Je l’aimais cette bière, mais je la trouve amère et fade. Un petit peu de saveur, mais forcent à boire.

1.3 Like a lager, easy drink and mouthfeel. Serviceable beer, better than a macro. Pale lagercolour,residual bit of yeast on top, no head to speak of. nothing in aroma, in fact a negative. . Was there a hop? No but metallic rather than a nice bitter finish.

2.4 Can. Orange colour with a medium white head. Sweet caramel malty, grassy aroma and a light sweet perfumed malty, fruity taste. Medium body with a light dry sweet finish.

2.4 Can from the LCBO in Peterborough. Copper in colour, cascade effect creamy lasting white head, lingering lace. That aroma was quite soft and light, some cream, light floral hops, some caramel malts. The flavour was of light caramel, floral hops, some sweetness. Thin watery mouthfeel, light body, medium/light carbonation. Finishes light, watery, lingering medium bitterness.

2.7 Can. Clear amber coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts, caramel and hops. Flavour of malts, caramel and hops.

2.9 (Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful deep amber with a frothy and very lively head. Very malty, lightly caramelish character, finely balanced by a harmonious bitterness. 050301

3.4 Wonderland Ballroom, NW DC. Slightly spicy and something dry hopsy. A good round, but a half step away from being consistent enough to your palate to be called a session beer. It should mellow out a bit more--only a half step into ubiquity--so that you can appreciate conversation around you rather than being forced to think about the drink. Tap.

2.7 Tap in Vermont: amber body, nice creamy head. After that it’s all downhill. Caramel aroma and flavor, hints of earth. Not very bitter or enjoyable. Hops almost smell stale, as is the overall impression of this beer. It started off in low 3/5 range and kept dropping. I only got a 9oz glass and chugged the last half so I could leave..

2.7 (draft) Clear amber body with off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, light earthy. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, light earthy. Light-medium body. Tastewise, it fits right in with all the Oktoberfests I am drinking this time of year.

2.4 Can (500ml "widget") Poured a freakishly foamy clear orange - head is two-layer creamy/foamy off-white. Aroma is sugary malt, some orange rind and nuttiness to balance, very light mild hops - gets soapy on warming. Taste is harshly metallic-bitter, some tart citrusy hops, some aritificial malt sweetness - soapiness continues. Mouthfeel is astringent and too thin. A slightly salty, bitter aftertaste which doesn’t encourage me to have another. Very average.

3.0 Draft @ berkley front. Pours a medium amber color with a small white head. Nose is light hopps with some slight fruitiness to it. Taste is kinda watery with some slight hopps and very little bitterness in the finish.

3.1 Draft @ Bobby Vans Manhattan. I enjoyed this beer, plenty of fruityness from the English yeast and a nice hop presence. I would have liked a bit more malt though.