Timothy Taylor's Landlord (Bottle)
The drinkers’ favourite, a 4.1% classic pale ale with a complex citrus and hoppy aroma. A recent survey revealed that Landlord has the highest proportion of drinkers who call it their favourite ale. And it has won more awards than any other beer, winning both CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain and the Brewing Industry Challenge Cup four times.
3.4
677 reviews
Keighley, England
Community reviews
# 2774; 3/2022. Malty, bready and citrusy aroma. Clear gold body; white head. Malty, bready, zesty. Long bready finish. 0,5 l, bottle, supermarket, Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England).
From bottle at Knights Tower 16.02.22. Clear dark golden. Foamy white head. Distinctive aroma and taste of pale malt, a touch of crystal malt, meadowy hops and Sevilla marmalade. Very quaffable!
500ml bottle, poured 4.1% abv. Amber coloured beer with foamy head, medium carbonation. Aroma and taste of bready malts, light fruit and caramel, citric and spicy hops. Very nice best bitter, classic and well balanced session ale, and pride of Keighley, Yorkshire
500ml bottle. Clear amber with a foamy off-white head. Flavors are bread, toffee, apricot and orange with spicy notes. Light to medium body, moderate carbonation, slick texture.
Very nice drinkable ale. Understated as it should be. I can see why it is so popular, and happy we got something fresh on this side of the ocean.
Mulmur, ON, Canada. Mild, mellow, great.
copper with a good sized offwhite head. piney, citrusy, honey aroma with complexity. bready, exaggerated malty taste. bitterness is evident but not in your face. good levels of depth. great beer. pretty highly carbonated.
would get again on occasion.
One of the great classics of traditional English pale ales or bitters, originally aimed at local miners but apparently Madonna's favourite beer as well, at least according to what she claimed in an interview with talk show host Jonathan Ross in 2003... I never had this one cask-conditioned, alas, but luckily I did manage to get my hands on a bottle of the filtered version - which I suppose qualifies as an EPA just for being bottled. Quite regular, egg-white, moussy, slightly and irregularly lacing, stable head on a crystal clear, deep 'old golden' beer with 'rusty' amberish tinge. Aroma of warm margarine, dried mugwort leaves, unsalted peanuts, butter on hot toast, dry hay, field flowers, dandelion, a whiff of dry Earl Grey tea, moist white pepper, vague whiff of unsmoked cigarette shag. Cleanish onset, restrainedly fruity with notes of unripe apricot and dried peach, finely tingling but very active carbonation adding a lot of refreshing, almost 'metallic' minerality as in fresh spring water, smooth body - a little bit buttery even. A margarine-like aspect, possibly a diacetyl remnant, floats over a toasty-bitterish, peanutty and bread-crusty maltiness, which remains slender but adds a late bitterness which is eventually taken over by noble hops, in a somewhat earthy and leafy, but also wormwoody, spicy way, lingering for quite a while and doing a perfect job in drying the finish; the very pronounced minerality I already mentioned, lingers on with it after swallowing. This Yorkshire classic is about as English as it gets for a bottled beer (keeping in mind that tapped beer, whether cask-conditioned or not, is still the dominant factor in English beer culture), with a crisp, light-footed, elegant and still powerful character. This kind of 19th- and 20th-century style ales may not be as hip and trendy anymore - at least not as trendy as all those American-inspired craft beers now flooding the United Kingdom, but I think we still need to honour them and respect them for their huge historical influence, and it is good to know that many (even self-proclaimed beer geek Madonna) still do. I love drinking a classic like this every now and then and I am glad that I can finally tick this famous beer off my list - it seems the guy depicted on the front label used to smile more explicitly on the former version of the label, but I see no reason why he should restrain his smile, this is as solid as it gets in this particular class of beer. Cheers to sir Timothy Taylor!
Pours a quite clear light copper/amber, with a couple of fingers of a quite dense, slightest off-white head. Decent retention and lacing. Aroma notes: delicate malty base of caramel and nuttiness, a nice underlying "wet earth" feel, soft fruity notes of citrus and perhaps berries. The aroma is overall not especially strong, but nicely soft, clean and well defined. Taste notes follow the aroma closely, perhaps with a bit less precision/definition, but with excellent bittersweet balance. Medium sweet and medium bitter, with none standing out in the mouth and the slightest bitter edge in a semi-dry, semi-earthy finish. Light bodied with average carbonation, resulting in a quite easy, semi-smooth mouthfeel. I guess the mouthfeel is probably where the bottled version misses the most if compared to the cask version. Overall, this is still a pretty good drink.
Bottle from Tesco.
Pours a clear amber colour with a medium sized throthy white head. Aromas of caramel, bread, biscuits with a hint of citrus and floral. Taste has caramel, citrus, biscuits, a touch of floral and some peppery spice. Earthy hop bitterness on the finish. Medium body with fair carbonation. More fizzy and bitter than i remember. Not bad
Bottle from Tesco. Surprised I hadn't rated this to date... It pours clear dark amber - brown with a decent frothy white cap. The aroma is earthy, nutty, dried leaves, grass, brown bread, rivita, wood shavings and leather. The taste is dry, dull bitterness, earthy, woody, nutty, digestive biscuits, dried leaves, smack of spice, leather, grass with a drying, nutty earth finish. Average body and moderate, fizzy carbonation. Pretty alright, doubt it deserves its 99 percentile though.
Butelka 500ml.
Kolor bursztynowy. Piana niewysoka. Aromat chmielowo-słodowy z nutą cytrusową.
W smaku całkiem przyjemny bitter. Od razy wyczuwalna wyraźna goryczka, nie dominująca ale zaznaczająca swoją obecność przy każdym łyku. Mamy tu nuty orzechowe z akcentem skórki cytrusowej oraz słód. Finisz ziołowy.
Świetne na letni dzień: orzeźwiające i smaczne.
Hot weather in the UK for a few days...tired of Czech, German supermarket lager. Thought I'd give this is a try. Doesn't compare to the cask version.....but not bad. Taylor flavour but lacking the mouthfeel of the cask version. 4 bottles for £6 ...a fair drop.
Bottle 0,5 ltr: Clear amber coloured brew with an excellent dry bitter taste with great hints of citrus and caramel. I get an suspicious feeling that Ratebeer remove reviews, I certainly know I reviewed this classic.
500 ml bottle from Systembolaget Ölstudion. Clear golden amber with white head. Malty with biscuits and dry herbal hoppy finish. Dry with medium bitterness and medium carbonation.
Reliable standard english ale, but nothing special. (A bit thin and iron-y)
Old rating from 2015 - 500ml bottle, pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, biscuit, bread, nuts, caramel & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish
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500mL bottle, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma is pretty typical but nice, with restrained British hops, bready malt, and a hint of toasted caramel. Flavour is balanced well, with toasted caramel, bready malt, and just enough hop presence to leave a pleasant but light bite on the finish. Very nicely made.
500 ml bottle from a cheese store. Pours a beautiful amber with a two finger head; loads of bready, biscuity and roasted malts with just a hint of floral aroma. Slight roasted taste and citrus notes (perhaps bergamot) with some astringency; mild to medium bitter, more bitter than I expected. Moderate carbonation and mouthfeel; considerably balanced and sessionable beer.
Clear, citrus and hops
Bottle @home. Dorata, brillante, schiuma bianca media. Al naso note citriche, leggermente erbacee, terrose, di malto, biscotto. In bocca è equilibrata in maniera magistrale, attacco maltato leggero, chiusura amara perfetta. Corpo leggero, carbonazione medio-leggera. Buonissima, delicata, bilanciatissima, fresca. Uno spettacolo!
Bottle from local Asda. Drunk this many a time on draught before, but not sure if I’ve ever had it bottled. Anyway, the nose really isn’t that strong, just malts and some sticky toffee pudding. Pours a golden orange with a strong white head. A lot more assertive in the mouth bitter hops kick in from the start. Sweet biscuit malts are there underneath as well if you search for them. Finish is dry and bitter. Distinctive and flavoursome – a classic.
Aroma, strong complex bready malts,
Appearance, bright deep gold, SRM 6, little to no head retention
Flavour, bread, biscuit, nutty, caramel.
Mouthfeel , chewy but nothing viscous, slightly warming (4.9%)
Overall, a good solid and safe bitter. Preferred it after letting the carbonation die down as the bottle is quite different to cask experience.. I don’t know if I’m being pinikitty but I like a darker colour bitter.
Aroma : Medium toasted toffee maltiness, subtle note of melon and a tiny bit of indistinct citrus, with a big fresh green hoppiness. Taste : Medium bodied; smooth texture. Strong dryish hoppy bitterness from the start, with a malty toffee (but not sweet toffee) backbone. One of the most flavoursome Pale Ale's I've had compared to the often insipidness of the style
50cl bottle thanks to @simontomlinson and EuroSwap 2/2020. Pours clear copper color with white head. Aroma is sweet malts and noble hops. Taste is drier than expected yet malty with nice bitter hops finish. Solid bitter.
Old tick uploading. Bottle at Trestle restaurant in SF in 2015. Slightly hazy copper with a great lasting white head. Aroma is caramel apple, light bread and citrus. Flavor is nice and complex for the style, bread base, slightly sweet caramel, crisp citrus bitterness. Medium-light feel, quite crisp. Well done.
Bottled Dec 13, 2011.
Gorgeous pour..slightly hazy 24k gold colour with a small but firm head of foam that leaves great lacing behind,
The smell is English hoppy with notes of fruit and citrus backed by a good malt profile of sweet and light grain.
The taste has the citrus up front with some other fruitiness and a balancing malt flavour that makes this so yummy. Combined with a medium mouthfeel and perfect carbonation and what I have is one of my favourite brews from the UK of all time.
Gee, I wish I could get this locally.
Nachmielony ale
Pours clear amber, good sized frothy white head which leaves a reasonable retention and lacing. Aroma is quite strong of caramel malts with a mild hoppy citrus. Taste is bready malt, a little citrus but it adds rather than distracts from the malty body, moderate sweetness and bitter finish. Carbonation is soft on the palate and spot on. Superb session quality, I can see why its popular.
This is an extremely well made traditional pale ale. After having a lot of modern craft hoppy brews, it was nice to try something like this. Very nice.