Lancashire Brown Ale is Thwaite’s best brew. On pouring, the head if creamy, with bubbly lacing streaking around the glass. This is very dark beer, with an aroma of straw and malt, that produces a caramel scent. A sweet, full-bodied beer is evidenced from a nutty, caramel, malty taste, though a bit fizzy and/or bitter due to its high carbonation. The finish is also sharp, though also pleasantly burnt, and contains hints of bitterness. The texture is rather bitter on the palate, with liquorice felt at the back of the throat. A lovely roasted, rich beer from Thwaite’s.

Lancashire Brown Ale is Thwaite’s best brew. On pouring, the head if creamy, with bubbly lacing streaking around the glass. This is very dark beer, with an aroma of straw and malt, that produces a caramel scent. A sweet, full-bodied beer is evidenced from a nutty, caramel, malty taste, though a bit fizzy and/or bitter due to its high carbonation. The finish is also sharp, though also pleasantly burnt, and contains hints of bitterness. The texture is rather bitter on the palate, with liquorice felt at the back of the throat. A lovely roasted, rich beer from Thwaite’s.

This is one of my oft-tasted beers, because it has the quality of being (at least in recent years) a widely available beer, though also very tasty and complex, with different aspects of its flavour seeming to await me every time I sample it. The malts in its taste give off impressions of caramel and chocolate, though it’s also sometimes a bit sharp. It has a long-lasting aftertaste, directed at the throat, again containing malt, caramel and chocolate, but also berries.

It has a malty, fresh, yeasty, caramel aroma, with an equally fresh and smooth texture. The mouthfeel is a bit like chewing gum (in a good way), a bit creamy, but tangy. It has a bubbly head, with patchy lacing around the sides of the glass. I can’t quite determine whether it’s a sweet or a dry beer. As I said, it seems to change each time I have it. One thing that remains almost constant is that it’s a lovely full-bodied beer, with hints of sharpness that luckily just fail to break through and ruin it. Head for cover right now, and enjoy this delicious beer.