Wadworth 6X (Cask)
Cask: Regular.
Previously 4.3%. Alcohol content of the cask version reduced in 2014.
Ingredients: Pale malt, Crystal malt and cane sugar; Fuggles hops (85% of total) in the copper and Goldings hops (15%) on the hop back plates.
Wadworth have been brewing 6X in their Devizes brewery for over 80 years. This delightful copper-coloured beer has a malty, fruity nose with a restrained hop character. The same characteristics emerge on the palate but with more intensity,leading to a lingering malty finish. The beer is full bodied and distinctive but with a high drinkability, ensuring its position as one of the South of England’s most requested beers.
Previously 4.3%. Alcohol content of the cask version reduced in 2014.
Ingredients: Pale malt, Crystal malt and cane sugar; Fuggles hops (85% of total) in the copper and Goldings hops (15%) on the hop back plates.
Wadworth have been brewing 6X in their Devizes brewery for over 80 years. This delightful copper-coloured beer has a malty, fruity nose with a restrained hop character. The same characteristics emerge on the palate but with more intensity,leading to a lingering malty finish. The beer is full bodied and distinctive but with a high drinkability, ensuring its position as one of the South of England’s most requested beers.
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197 reviews
Devizes, England
Community reviews
From the pump at 1843, Rimini, Italy. Pours a brilliant light amber with almost no foam. Aroma is traditional of terrain and some hazelnut. Generally weak. Body is average with limited carbonation. Taste is moderately sweet, with good bitterness. Finish is average.
Sweet, malty chestnut brown butter. A bit bready with a slight sticky mouthfeel. Ok but a bit thin.
Cask @ The Three Fishes, Shrewsbury. Pours amber, off-white head. Caramel on the nose. Caramel to the taste. Light and palatable bitter with hints of earthy brown bread.
Sample at sebar. Amber color, big offwhite head, lacing. Aroma is a bit weird, caramel with some plum and vague yeast. taste sourish, light sugary. Dry finish, soft carb, light body, aftertaste is similar to kit beers and fermented sugar. Mh.
Cask at Broad Street Tavern, Wokingham, on April 4, 2017. As a ½ pint for £1.90.
Malty, a tad grainy, biscuit taste. Medium full low CO2 mouthfeel, low bitterness. Clear amber color, small white head. Light fruity aftertaste. Malty, light fruity scent.
Cask at the Alma, Upper Hale. Slight maltyness of an aroma. Amber. OK white head.Sweet with a bitter edge. Again there’s as maltyness to it. Light bodied. A carbonation that became more prominent as I started to finish off to get pack to work, which I didn’t find pleasant. Bland as. Can’t believe this is a mate’s favourite beer, especially a they used to work in a decent pub.
Malty bitter, hint of fruits, some nut, decent full body. Satisfying if somewhat generic bitter.
Aroma: not strong, but some fruity hop smell with notes of malt bitterness. Appearance: dark copper colour with thin foamy head. Taste: more fruity than other British bitters. Not first choice, but not disappointing either.
copper with a white head. Aroma of dried fruits, pale malts, citrus, some nuts. Taste of caramel, malts, biscuits, mild, some nuts, some dried fruits, a slight bitter finish
Cask in a Wadworth pub in Woolverton. Amber with a cream head. No aroma. The taste is nutty with toast. Very light citrus and spice. OK
St John, 5/27. Amber. No head, light lace. Malty and clean, lightly sweet. Caramel and some earth. Softer feel. Drinks nicely.
Possibly a slightly rough pint from bad pump but it was cloudy and sour, I’ve had good pints of this before but more than one bad pint, maybe doesn’t like warm weather or travelling. Even when good too fruity for my liking.
Cask @ Crosse Keys, London. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and light hoppy - flowers. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 250316
Cask at the JDW Briar Rose; clear golden yellow pour with a creamy white head, aroma has light lemon, a hint of biscuit.
Cask at The Swan, Hammersmith, last week. As ’Wadworth 6X’, 4.1%. Amber orange, clear, still, small off-white head. Aroma is bready, a bit farty and sulphurous. Body is light, smooth, soft carbonation. Taste is thin, watery bread, some apple and resin. Basic and thin. Just OK. Probably won’t come back to this one.
Pale brown colour with thin creamy head. Aroma has toasted malts. Quite a mild flavour. Fairly strong with malts and a light fruitiness in the finish.
Cask at the Windsor Castle - Fitzrovia, London. Pours lightly hazy, copper-gold with a foamy white head. Damp leaves in the nose, some grainy bread, berries. Light sweet flavor with simple bread, light toffee, dough, musty earth. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Somewhat bland on the finish, with a bit of sugary brown bread, caramel, earth, old leaves, musty berries. So so.
Cask - copper beer with decent white head. Little aroma but easy on tongue and mouth. Bitter finishing taste - unremarkable easy drinking.
Cask at the Assembly Rooms, Epsom (JDW). Pours clear copper brown with a white head. Aroma of malt and toffee. Sweet finish.
Cask at the GBBF 2015. High fluffy lasting white head. Clear dark brown body. Weak malt caramel aroma. Thin and watery malt chestnut cocoa flavor with little hops bitterness, low carbonation and a short finish.
Copper appearance. Malt aroma with mild caramel. Taste a little mild and watery for me but very drinkable.
red fruit and malt aroma, reddish tinged amber with creamy white lacing, tastes a bit like custard cream, its ok.
Pours a finger of head on a clear dark straw body.
The aroma is grain.
The taste is dark grains and woody.
The texture is smooth.
Okay.
Cask shoulder mutton slaithwaite. Malty roast aroma taste same slight sweet light hoppy bitters. Ok body. Ok at best
Average British ale. Very drinkable, with caramel malts to the fore. On the lighter side of medium body. Copper brown with a decent head.
A cloudy, ruby-red beer with a firm, compact layer of foam. It has something nutty in the aroma, but that’s about it. A full bitter, somewhat watery taste bij the lack of carbon, and it leaves a somewhat bitter aftertaste which hangs on for a while.
Een troebel, robijnrood bier met een stevige, compacte, lichtbruine kraag. In het aroma zit iets noterigs, maar verder niet veel. Een volle bittere, maar verder waterige smaak door het gebrek aan koolzuur. Een iets bittere nasmaak die even blijft hangen.
(cask) hazy amber colour with a frothy off-white head. aroma of butterscotch and caramel, with a hint of brown sugar, wheat, some smoked eel and sugar icing. flavour is mostly butter, black tea and herbal hops, slightly chalky, with a hint of raisins and a semi-dry finish. medium-bodied with soft carbonation.
Fresh malty notes in the aroma - not the most pleasant but often the best cask beers seem to have that sort of aroma. Not too strong. Slightly weak mouthfeel. Appearance is a little bit cloudy. But, the cask really rewards this type of beer, and the freshness comes through. Quite refreshing, and slightly sharp for a bitter, but otherwise fairly typical bitter.
Cask 1 Pint, The Dean Park Inn, Bournemouth, England, UK.
Miedziane piwo o puszystej pianie i słodowym, owocowym aromacie. W smaku kremowe, słodowe z przyjemną, chmielową goryczką na finiszu.
One of those good old classic English bitters, from a brewery which still works with copper brewing kettles and wooden barrels, at least at the time when I tasted this (2006). Brownish copper-coloured ale with thin, creamy head as expected from an English cask bitter, very malty aroma of caramel and walnuts, sourish touch, delicate aromatic hops. Rounded, supple palate, vague sweetishness, lots of buttermilk-like diacetyl, sourish accent, dried fruits, ending in a thirst-quenching hop bitterness. Stereotypical alright, but at least very decent.