Opens quietly with no fizz, and pours flat. A fair whiff of damp cardboard, so left for a while to settle. Light bodied, but lots of sweet toffee flavour. Watery texture is a little off-putting, and though I like sweet beers, this is a little too sweet for my taste. Plenty of chocolate mixed with damp straw and dark, black tea. OK. An easy drink, quite pleasant.
This was a limited edition of 4,500 bottles. This is bottle 52 (faint red number under the brewery address).
The Chiltern Brewery was established in 1980 by Richard Jenkinson on an old farm in the countryside just south of Aylesbury. It's a family brewery with a beer shop at the brewery, and a bar at the Kings Head pub in Aylesbury. Draught beers are distributed locally, and the brewery makes special bottled beers for CAMRA, the National Trust and the National Gallery.
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