Boddingtons Draught Bitter

Boddingtons is a beer which can be found in many versions and is supported by a very strong advertising campaign. The two main beers are the basic bitter at about 3.8% and Gold which comes in at about 4.8%. Boddingtons is a very creamy beer to taste and has got a long refreshing flavour to it. It is the bitter which I feel comes closest to replicating the thirst quenching features of lager on a long, hot summer's day. The major marketing for Boddingtons is done by a cartoon cow called Graham the Heifer. Somebody in the marketing department is obviously not too well versed in the bovine facts of life, either that or poor old Graham has had a sex change. ...

Boddingtons’s Draught Bitter…mm…. what can I say? Well, it’s certainly not bitter, and yes, the flavour is bland. The fact that I find Boddingtons’s to be a bland, and somewhat tasteless beer, is probably a result of my like for strong, high alcohol content drinks. Don’t get me wrong…I’m not a binge drinker! However, many will like Boddingtons’s as it makes a good pint to sit down with a few mates and watch TV or just to have laughed at the pub with. Each pint of this stuff is 4.6% volume, so it’ll take a few pints, and pounds for that matter, to get happy, and a small fortune to get hammered if ...