Outstanding OSB

Featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more selections see previous post.

ABV: 4.4%
Origin: Bury, Greater Manchester, England
Website: www.outstandingbeers.co.uk

Outstanding Brewery

The immodestly named Outstanding Brewery in Bury, Greater Manchester, was launched only in 2008, although the involvement of one of Britain’s leading suppliers of microbrewing kit, David Porter, shows an experienced hand. With the help of collaborators Paul Sandiford and Glen Woodcock, he’s developed a wide and imaginative range of beers, from smoked ales to Californian-style extreme hop brews. The brewery sent me a generous selection, but the one I enjoyed most was a simple classic bitter, OSB.

This is a copper-brown coloured ale with a declining bubbly light beige head. A resiny hopsack aroma has notes of toast and ripe autumn fruit, and the palate is also very fruity and biscuity, with a definite though not overpowering hop bite, notes of washing up liquid and peach syrup. A long and lightly roasty finish has rooty well-balanced hops and a touch of chocolate.

For more selections from the 2009 Good Bottled Beer Guide see next post.
Read more about this beer at ratebeer.com: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/outstanding-osb/112893/