Hogs Back Tongham Tea (T.E.A)
Cask: Regular.
Our ’Best Bitter’ the flagship of Hogs Back beers.
Winner of many awards including Champion Best Bitter at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival at Olympia. A pale brown malty bitter with a hoppy & slightly fruity aroma. A well crafted bitter sweet beer with a long dry finish. A classic Best Bitter.
Ingredients: Maris Otter pale malt, crystal malt. Fuggles and Goldings hops.
Our ’Best Bitter’ the flagship of Hogs Back beers.
Winner of many awards including Champion Best Bitter at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival at Olympia. A pale brown malty bitter with a hoppy & slightly fruity aroma. A well crafted bitter sweet beer with a long dry finish. A classic Best Bitter.
Ingredients: Maris Otter pale malt, crystal malt. Fuggles and Goldings hops.
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375 reviews
Tongham, England
Community reviews
Bottle from explosivedog: pours light brown/dark amber with an off white head. Aroma is toffee and caramel. Malty, lightly sweet, caramel.
Bottle. Pours brown. Biscuit, hedgerow, orange, lemon, cereal, toffee. Medium body. Pretty good.
Bottle. Rather dark, medium brown in color. Rich biscuity malt and caramel, with spicy hops with notes of tobacco. Well carbonated and light, though very malty. Quite traditional indeed.
Amber coloured, nice gentle malty taste with a hint of tea. Very flat, no head
Malty, thick mouthfeel. Toasty, fruit, slight toffee notes. Nice smooth bitter finish. Big standard English bitter.
500ml Bottles from Sainsbury's.
Amber coloured with a thick white head. It has a malty, dried fruit and burnt toffee flavour followed by a smooth, warming almond and plum finish. Good.
500ml bottle. Ruby in colour with no head. Lots of red apple on the aroma. The taste is similar, floral- quite smooth- slightly buttery- maybe diacetyl. It's drinkable but just average.
Easy to drink ale with great aftertaste. A good session beer with plenty of flavour.
Аромат слегка хмелевой, хотя не резкий, хмель и солод европейский. Цвет темно желтый, пенка маленькая, быстро падающая. Вкус горький, много карбонизация, хотя пиво питкое. При глотке ощущается сильная травянистая горечь. Намеки на медовые нотки. В целом ничего необычного.
warm, caramel, sweet.
Évanescent traditional English ale. Pours brown clear, little head. Strong Arona of caramel, with a nice freshness and some cardboard. Taste of caramalt, metal, green apple and the acidity of dry cider. Carbonation is ok, but mouth very flat : the bitterness (low) sticks at the back of your mouth, leaving a big empty feeling in front.
Earlier Rating: 9/23/2018 Total Score: 0.5
Pours a clear coppery amber colour with a small creamy beige head. Aroma is caramel malt and fruit, a similar taste with dry hop bitterness. Decent if not memorable.
From tap. Not much head, but taste is light bitter hops, fairly classic bitter. Darker golden colour.
Bottle. Pours clear golden orange with a medium, frothy off-white head, short retention. Moderate rich biscuit malt, medium earthy, herbal, and minty hops and bitterness with a dry finish. Medium-light body and medium carbonation.
dark Amber not much head. lovely grassy aroma. caramel, dark fruit, light bitterness. yummy
Bouteille 50cl @ Niamey Craft beer tasting, thanks Balasz.
Cuivrée sur ambre, col fin blanc.
Arôme au bouquet plaisant malté assez classique de bitter anglais avec une petite pointe de grillé - fruité léger des houblons, surtout le Fuggle avec de fines effluves herbacées, un peu menthe.
Palais est malté, cara pâle Otter, bitter dans les grandes lignes, noble, citronné, herbacé avec une petit pointe épicée en fin de bouche.
Vu l'étiquette je m'attendais à une bière axée sur le thé vert, le 'hog' peint en vert et l’acronyme utilisé semblaient aller dans cette direction.
Bottle from Sainsbury's in Blackpool. Medium amber, clear, small bubbly head. Aroma is malty, leathery, woody. Taste adds some tangy bitterness, a bit too tangy perhaps. Also, the body seems thin. About what I expected.
Bottle, 50 cl, bought at Sainsbury's. Pleasant, well balanced bitter, would like to try again.
500ml bottle at home. Poured clear chestnut with tiny head that soon vanished. Light caramel malts bit bland.
Bitter is an understatement. Disappointing ale, very bland; at best drinkable.
Cask at the Otter. Pleasant best bitter with a hoppy taste
50cl bottle from Sainsbury's and shared on 10-Nov-2017. Amber in colour with a thin white head. Aroma of malt, fruit and spices. Medium body and carbonation. Taste of malt, caramel and fruit. Typical English Bitter.
At home poured from birthday bottle. Deep amber in colour, foamy straw-coloured head that doesn't stick around (although a decent amount of lacing). No real aroma. Taste malty, light and slightly sweet, extremely well balanced. This is a really really good beer and really easy to drink!
Bottle at home. I used to live near the brewery and would by 6 pint flagons of this as a bright beer to drink while watching the Grand Prix. I ended up going there so often they gave me a 10% discount card. Those fond remembered days of freedom before marriage and fatherhood??. Anyway, this is a classic English bitter. It looks great, there is a wonderful balance of malt and hops with just the right level of bitterness alongside the biscuit from the malt. There is a touch of sweetness that adds to the flavour profile that I think they have overdone in some of their other beers. It’s never going to set the world on fire, but it drinks well, has a low abv and puts a smile on my face whenever I drink it. Isn’t that the point of beer? If I was told this was the only beer I could drink for the rest of my life I wouldn’t be unhappy.
Cask 1/3 pint as part of a paddle, at Queens Head, Wokingham, on June 15, 2017.
Malty, berries, gypsum, black mold taste. Light herbal, mild bitter aftertaste. Medium full mouthfeel, medium to medium low bitterness. Clear light brown color, tan head. Malty, cream, fruity scent.
7/4/5/4/11=3.1
F: thin, off-white, quick gone.
C: deep coppery, clear.
A: malty, sweet caramel, toasty, fruity.
T: malty, fruity, cherries, toast, medium body, low carbonation, good, half pint @ The Wheatsheaf pub near Horsham.
Bottle at home. There was a time when I would drink nothing but bitter, but after trying heavy hopped beers and enjoying them. I can’t go back to bitter. Just another boring bitter
Cask at Station, West Byfleet. There was a time (15+ years ago) when I was excited to see this beer on tap, as it was the local microbrewery beer that started to appear in local pubs. Not had it for years though... debt aroma - floral and malts. Chestnut. Creamy white half moon of a head. Sweet and sour. Gets bitter into the finish. Malts and caramel. Stewed fruits. Twigs. Light-medium bodied. Has slickness to it. Light carbonation. Middling finish. Hmmm... Just another boring bitter.
Pint on cask. A nice, pleasant, straightforward pint of bitter. There’s a little more sweetness than some bitters, giving it some caramel flavor, but otherwise it’s a standard pint of good beer.