Camden Brewery Marmite ale review: You can't be serious?
Turns out the people at Camden Brewery are serious and made a beer with actual Marmite in it
Now don't get me wrong. I like Marmite. I'll pop it on toast, blob a bit in gravy, it's not terrible stuff. But putting it in a beer? Nah. To quote Ed Milliband "it's just, it's just wrong". (Ed: Do you think anyone who isn't British and fairly boring will get that?).
It has actual Marmite in it. It's not like they've just used the same yeast or anything, they just chucked in Marmite.
You know it's going to be an odd one when you crack it open and pour it out, expecting what's canned as an ale to have a light golden colour akin to a standard beer. What you get is a dark brown Guinness coloured liquid, like a thin Marmite. A small head forms bringing with it a strong malty nose.
Take a gulp and then it unwinds further. The initial taste isn't bad. The light malt of the pilsner, Rauch and Munich are well balanced. The bright Perle hops are strong, and then all you taste is Marmite. It ruins what could well have been a good beer. It's like drinking liquified Twiglets. It fails to be refreshing. I haven't a clue what you'd pair it with either. All in, this is pretty dire; a shame really as Camden make some good beers.
Bloody awful, sadly I can't give it a 0/5
Just don't.
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Comments (7)
I'm here to say stout already tastes like marmite, so this is so unnecessary - and also that I'm Australian, under 21, and I know who Ed Milliband is.
This isn’t supposed to be a stout though, it’s turned into a stout by adding marmite.
And you’re under 21? I’m older than you? INCONCEIVABLE
This is just uncalled for!
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You're a bit late here Jesse, posted this about two weeks ago. I've had some and it's great.
Yeah, I’m pretty late to it. But that’s not the point, I can’t abide this.
Send it all to me I love it 🍷