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Bays Breaker
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October 27th, 2009Beer Reviews, BittersBays are very much an unknown to me, and this is the real beauty of the Sainsbury’s beer competition. Without, it would probably have taken a trip to Devon for me to have stumbled across this beer.
The brewery is a new one, set up in 2007 on the south Devon coast and has three flagship ales: Bays Best, Gold and Breaker. It’s the latter that made the cut in the Sainsbury’s Beer Competition this year and therefore found its way into my trolley a few weeks ago.
I should point out I drank this a little colder than it’s probably meant to be, a result of not very good fridge planning and me been very indecisive about which beers I wanted that night.
Bays Breaker is an interesting beer, it’s almost peppery, sweet and bitter all at the same time, an array of contradictory flavours that sit together better than you’d expect. The peppery aftertaste demands another sip, a sip that will start fruity and soft, and ends with a carbonised bitterness.
In big gulps the malt and fruit shines through and if you sip slower it the bitter flavours linger.
Without becoming a favourite Bays Breaker certainly makes for an interesting tipple and that could well have a couple of food partnerships out there waiting to be found (I reckon this to wash down fish and chips might just work!)
Tags: bays, beer, breaker, competition, devon, fruit, pepper, sainsburys, torbay
Bays Breaker: beer from Devon
3 responses to “Bays Breaker” 
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Tried this – at the Market Porter a few years ago, it was well-brewed if a basic beer – I enjoyed it. But yeah, you dont see their wares up here that often at all!
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Baron Orm October 27th, 2009 at 20:14