Woodie09's Review of Spitfire
9th Feb 2009
Overall Rating
- Value for money
Lovely, well balanced beer. One of my favourite bottled beers, and pretty good on draught
Bad Points
Not widely available on draught (at least where I live). Dubious jingoistic marketing
General Comments
Spitfire is a great beer. It is a lovely warm, reddish ale in clear bottles and sold in most decent supermarkets or off licences. It is also available on draught but I don't see it up in't North that often (though I rember Wither spoons did a promotion for it a while back so may have it in some places) The flavour is a nice combination of the pleasant malty, nutty initial taste, with a nice level of bitterness from the hops especially afterwards. Often you get beers that are too heavily hopped, and can taste a bit perfumey. Or sometimes beers can be very dark and syrupy which can be cloying. Spitfire hits it spot on in the middle, beautifully balanced. Great in the summer with a BBQ (especially with the 10-packs of stubby bottles they do).
That first taste on a Friday night after work is worth the week's waiting!
The marketing can be a little jingoistic, with references to the Second World War. No need! It was 70 years ago! Let it go!
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Spitfire Premium Kentish Ale
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The Spitfire - An Operational History
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RJ Mitchell. A life in Aviation. Spitfire and Battle of Britain.
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Supermarine Spitfire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries through the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used into the 1950s both as a front line fighter and in secondary roles. It was produced...
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