Stoke – West Midlands town near Newcastle Under Lyme.
RMS Titanic. Doomed liner built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast.
The connection between these two? No it’s not Robbie. The link is that Captain Edward Smith hails from Hanley, talk about rubbish name dropping. Anyway, Titanic Breweries have been brewing since 1985. With that much practice, you’d have thought they’d be better at it.
Just sampled a bottle of Titanic Iceberg.
It was bloody awful. Very very hoppy, which in itself isn’t a bad thing but couple that with the bitterness and good God man, there’s bitter, and then there’s bitter. This made my tongue union up and start a picket. I looked at the bottle expecting to see half a dozen lemons in the ingredients list to no avail. I did see that it proclaimed itself to be very bitter. At least there’ll be no trade description issues.
Maybe the bottle I had was just particularly nasty but it does put me off sampling the rest of the range. I’m still puzzled as to why the brewery aligned with the Titanic name, I get the Edward Smith connection but come on, the Titanic wasn’t even the first ship he crashed. Not a great figurehead. There’s a reason why there isn’t an Eddie The Eagle stout.
PS, must apologise to the brewery, as Keith points out, it was Iceberg I had, not Mild. My mistake.
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Keith Bott · February 26, 2010 at 11:20am
Whist I am always dissapointed to hear that someone hasn’t enjoyed our beer I am a little confused. Titanic don’t bottle Mild!Our Mild is only available on draught, not sure what it was you tried! Maybe Stout, which is bitter but then it is supposed to be!
As the three times champion beer of Britain obviously someone likes it!
Keith Bott
Managing Director Titanic Brewery
Author comment by Mike Laybourne · March 5, 2010 at 5:22pm
Thanks for your comments, it was Iceberg I tried. Consider my post amended.
After you took the time to read my post, I decided it rude not to try the rest of the bottled range (Couldn’t find any Stout though). You’ll be happy to know that I enjoyed White Star and Captain Smiths much more.
I found both had an unexpected bitter edge to them, more so than I expected but the deep hoppy flavours balanced that out quite nicely. I’d happily drink those again.