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BJCP is sometimes annoyingly American-centric. Especially their treatment of UK bitters. (Paraphrasing) the bitterness should be the major feature of an ordinary bitter....... BOLLOCKS. UK ales are generally malty with hop accentuation, but a beer like Wadworth 6x or Brains Bitter is not a bitter beer by any means. Even the UK versions of hop monsters such as Bombardier or TTL the hops are the rich "up the back of the nose" and what you burp up hop complexity, not hammered with Chinook to 80 IBU.

Thankyou for the clarification mate. I have always found UK bitters ( the ones i've tried here in the bottle, never been to the UK ) to be mostly malty, but with nice hop character, just as you say. That is how i brew them too, i like nice maltiness ( not cloying though ) with a hit of willamette etc late in the finish. Yummmmmmmmoooooooo

Haha i looked up a boddo's recipe the other day, and lots of american brewers thought it was a cream ale hahahahahahahahah classic!!!

<blockquote data-quote="mje1980" data-source="post: 808141" data-attributes="member: 729">BJCP is sometimes annoyingly American-centric. Especially their treatment of UK bitters. (Paraphrasing) the bitterness should be the major feature of an ordinary bitter....... BOLLOCKS. UK ales are generally malty with hop accentuation, but a beer like Wadworth 6x or Brains Bitter is not a bitter beer by any means. Even the UK versions of hop monsters such as Bombardier or TTL the hops are the rich &quot;up the back of the nose&quot; and what you burp up hop complexity, not hammered with Chinook to 80 IBU.Thankyou for the clarification mate. I have always found UK bitters ( the ones i&#039;ve tried here in the bottle, never been to the UK ) to be mostly malty, but with nice hop character, just as you say. That is how i brew them too, i like nice maltiness ( not cloying though ) with a hit of willamette etc late in the finish. YummmmmmmmooooooooHaha i looked up a boddo&#039;s recipe the other day, and lots of american brewers thought it was a cream ale hahahahahahahahah classic!!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mje1980, post: 808141, member: 729"] [b][/b]BJCP is sometimes annoyingly American-centric. Especially their treatment of UK bitters. (Paraphrasing) the bitterness should be the major feature of an ordinary bitter....... BOLLOCKS. UK ales are generally malty with hop accentuation, but a beer like Wadworth 6x or Brains Bitter is not a bitter beer by any means. Even the UK versions of hop monsters such as Bombardier or TTL the hops are the rich "up the back of the nose" and what you burp up hop complexity, not hammered with Chinook to 80 IBU.[b][/b] Thankyou for the clarification mate. I have always found UK bitters ( the ones i've tried here in the bottle, never been to the UK ) to be mostly malty, but with nice hop character, just as you say. That is how i brew them too, i like nice maltiness ( not cloying though ) with a hit of willamette etc late in the finish. Yummmmmmmmoooooooo Haha i looked up a boddo's recipe the other day, and lots of american brewers thought it was a cream ale hahahahahahahahah classic!!! [/QUOTE]

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