»Pitchfork Rebellious Bitter

Winner of the Gold Medal at 1998's Great British Beer Festival, this delicious and archetypical bitter transported me. The Pitchfork Rebellious Bitter uses single-origin ingredients and is bottle-aged, unlike most bitters I have enjoyed recently (which were cask- or barrel-aged). The hop flavour was distinctively strong; unlike hoppy North American beers, and especially hoppy West Coat beers, I find the hoppiness in bitters more pleasing than [India] Pale Ales.