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Picture: Old Expensive 16.9oz bottle.
Old Expensive is a strong, dark winter warmer with a full bodied rounded bitterness. It has a rich port wine aroma in the nose, massive mouth-filling malt and ripe fruit flavors and a deep finish with hops, raisins and sultanas on the palate.
The ingredients are Pipkin pale malt, Halycon crystal malt, top-fermenting yeast, Challenger and Target whole hops and the legendary Burton brewing water.
Name: In England the excise duty increases as the beers get stronger. Consequently their price over the bar is much more than the price of a normal session drinking beer. Also these darker stronger beers are known as Old Ales. Hence Old Expensive. It is a tongue in wallet name, usually abbreviated to OX.
| Type: |
Old Ale |
| Alc./Vol.: |
6.5% |
| EBC: |
28 |
| IBU: |
39 |
| Org. Gravity: |
1065 |
| Formats: |
12 * 16.9oz bottles |
Burton Bridge Brewery takes its name from the Burton Bridge over the River Trent at Burton-on-Trent. It is situated twenty yards from the end of the present bridge.