Wye Valley Butty Bach
Cask; Regular. Also available bottle conditioned.
’Butty Bach’ is Welsh for ’little friend’. This full-bodied, smooth and satisfying premium ale is burnished gold in colour, and certainly has made a few friends in its time.
We brew it using Maris Otter and Crystal malts, flaked barley, malted wheat, and locally grown Fuggles, Goldings and Bramling Cross hops. With such fine ingredients, no wonder it remains a firm favourite among our followers.
’Butty Bach’ is Welsh for ’little friend’. This full-bodied, smooth and satisfying premium ale is burnished gold in colour, and certainly has made a few friends in its time.
We brew it using Maris Otter and Crystal malts, flaked barley, malted wheat, and locally grown Fuggles, Goldings and Bramling Cross hops. With such fine ingredients, no wonder it remains a firm favourite among our followers.
2.9
247 reviews
Bromyard, England
Community reviews
500ml bottle from Asda (£1.70):
Clear, light amber with a thumb-sized, foamy head that's a creamy white colour with some bubbles on the surface. Pale malts, faint biscuit & butterscotch notes then some earthy hops open the nose, there's a little grain too but it's pleasant enough. Biscuit & pale malts again dominate with the taste, its quite one dimensional but drinkable with a smooth, medium body & very soft carbonation. It seems a little bland at the end but it's well balanced with some bread malts to close; not bad for the style I guess.
Good session beer really nice golden colour recommend highly
Wye Valley Butty Bach 4.5%. Golden, earthy, fruity aroma, medium bodied, caramel malt, citrus, lemon, butter, hint of smokiness in the finish. Pleasant Bitter from Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire 🏴
Pint at the Corner Cupboard, Winchcombe. Lovely, light chestnut on pour, with small white lacing. Malty aromas, with nice fizz on the tongue and long bitter finish.
Gold brown, orange hue, with a thin whispy head. Carbonation quite high. Aroma is faint - malt and raisins. Flavour is hoppy, biscuit, nutty, with a sudden late bitterness that lingers. Very drinkable Welsh ale.
Bottle from Tesco in Stafford. There’s just a vague, but pleasant, aroma of malts. Pours a golden orange with minimal off-white head. In the mouth, sweet malts hit the tastebuds instantly. Hops, both floral and citrus are there also, but take time to make their presence felt. Finish is fairly bitter. This is a good solid best bitter – very drinkable.
Buttery and smooth
Bottle, Cardiff Wales. Amber colour, off white head. Nice malt and light hop aroma with a light to medium bodied mouthfeel. A nice beer.
500ml bottle from Sainsbury’s, Epsom. Pours clear golden amber with a thin white head. Aroma of malt and biscuit. Similar taste. Sweet finish. Drinkable at room temperature.
Aroma : Medium toasted sweet caramel malt, merest hint of summer fruits & plenty of fresh green hop. Taste : Body is on the light side of medium. Balanced sweet caramel maltiness with bitter but indistinctly flavoured green hoppiness. Not horrible; but forgettable!
Cask at the Horse and Groom in Oddington. A pretty decent ale that is on the golden side of bitter. A humble ale.
Bottle 500 ml ABV 4.5 % at Glebe farm. Malt, citrus, hints of caramel, dark fruit. Pleasant and refreshing.
Bottle with BBE in 2121! There could be an incredible amount of preservatives or someone in the brewery has been sampling too much of their own product.
Pours goldish amber, small head which leaves some lacing. Aroma of caramel, powerful yeasts, butter.
Low carbonation, quite smooth, decent body.
Taste of malts, offputing yeast, hop, something more earthy and bready, but with an underlying sweetness throughout.
I made the mistake of starting to drink this at fridge temperature before reading the back which states served lightly chilled. At low temperature nothing much comes though except the yeastiness but once left out for half-hour the flavour notes come through. Despite this I’m not massively keen, it’s a little too rich for me flavour wise, although still makes for a resonable beer.
Pretty nice bitter
Butty Batch
Welsh for little friend
An amber gold ale with notes of fruit and malt
Found in Green Dragon Hereford
Couldn't tell you more at this moment, as I finished it off yesterday. Remember just really enjoying it.
A 500ml bottle picked up on my trip to Wales last spring. It pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of fruits & malt. Sweet malty finish. Decent older style ale
Cask @Sandford Park Alehouse, Cheltenham. 05/02/2020.
Color ambarino pequeña corona de espuma blanca, aromas cereal, maltosa, sabot maltosa, caramelo, notas florales, cuerpo sedoso.
Bottle as gift. Clear amber beer with a bubbly ring of lacing. Nose is pleasant enough. Fruity and sweet malts. Sweetness continues with apple juice. Leafy bitterness. Soft, reasonably light body with a fairly low level of carbonation. Soft finish. Tasty enough traditional style ale.
Cask at the Baiting House, Upper Sapey. Cloudy orange, white head. Malty, some caramel, floral, sweetish. Soft texture. Light to medium bodied.
500ml bottle brewed in England at 4.5%. Crystal clear slightly dark gold. Small head, yet not fully going away for a good long time. Yeasty aroma - touch of sock in there - perhaps a touch of lemon or bread too. Low-moderate carbonation. Kicks off with a chorus of classic English ale hops, a touch of lemon, a touch of earth, balancing mild bitterness, joined by a slight yeasty flavour (a touch of sock, but it's not bad, honest!) to a second delightful chorus of malts, smooth and resplendent, luxuriating on the palate, there's cookie and chocolate (and chocolate chip cookie), a slight nuttiness, and maybe a hint of dark bread crust. Cracking classic English ale/bitter, there's just something so satisfying about drinking a beer like this. Really surprised this isn't rated higher, even if it is a bit mainstream. Perhaps it's because, like a fair few other supermarket 'bottle-conditioned' beers out there, it may technically be bottle-conditioned, but that essentially means about five little flakes of yeast are lurking at the very bottom of an otherwise crystal clear beer (a good thing if you don't like cloud beer)...hey, it tastes fine, though, and unlike the similarly scantily-yeasted Proper Job, doesn't taste force-carbonated, even if it is. I'm also very happy to see an ingredients list on the label. Ignore anyone saying this is lacking flavour - when they say lightly chilled on the label, they mean LIGHTLY! Half an hour in the fridge tops - now go out and try this bad boy.
Hazy brassy gold amber with thin bubbly white
aroma is caramelly nutty
Flava is tangy slight bitterness slight bready
Feels light with slight fizz
Finishes dry mildly bitter
Cask @ Barrels, Hereford. Pours clear orange with a white head. Aromas of toffee and fruit. Flavours of caramel, honey and grass. Soft and smooth texture.
Cask @ Admiral Rodney, Criggion. Pours clear gold, small white head. Sweet malt nose. Taste is sweeter than expected from Wye, actually liked this much more than I thought I would. Probably quite fresh I suppose. Decent full body to it. Decent bitter.
Golden honey with a thin white head. Lovely and creamy and sweet. Low carbonation. Plenty of malt. On tap.
Head disappears almost immediately, so it doesn't look up to much. Light hop aroma. Taste is okay though incredibly generic. It's just A.N.Other English bitter that you'd find in pretty much any pub around the country. it's not unpleasant by any stretch, there's nothing nasty or sickly to it, it's just a bit dull.
Half pint @ The Grange Pub. Pleasant ale: smooth, low carbonation. Very malty.
500ml bottle. Golden and clear with no head. Aroma is really muted, struggle to pick anything out. Taste is malty, minimal bitterness. Very balanced though. Its incredibly drinkable, just lacks flavour. My rating is very low, but its not a bad beer, just very limited- so difficult to score up. Meh.
Bottle from the Coop, Ancaster, Lincs. A lovely clean golden colour with a thin head. Taste wise it's OK, pleasant enough, some malt and some hops, I guess it's quite well balanced. Nice beer, but doesn't excite!
Being from Hereford we are brought up on this. Other kids drank capri suns and oasis we mighty Hereford boys sank pint after pint of this till we stumbled back from the barrels to our mums house where we would eat a proper Hereford steak and talk about rugby and how brexit means brexit. This is the crem de la crem, the bees knees, and the dogs swalux. Lovely beer wouldn’t change it for the world.