Adnams Broadside Strong Original

500ml bottle into a half pint glass. Whiskey color, scant sandy head. Smells: sappy, sulfur, dusty, and fishy/salty. Sweet, treacly, and "dark" fruit flavor, balanced by chocolatey bitterness. Light palate. Pretty good and much better than the sum of its parts; flavor reminds me of Old Peculier.

500 ml bottle. Clear, reddish amber body with a fine off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and overripe fruit. Flavor is sweet, light roasted malt, ripe fruit, grassy hop and some warming alcohol. Really nice indeed.

(Bottle from Co-op, Long Stratton) Poured a very dark red with a huge fluffy off white head that resembled honeycomb a bit. Lasted for ages. Aroma of rich malt with big fruit, cherries and brown sugar. Taste a sweet fruity maltiness with biscuit and caramel hints. A bit bready with a full bodied flavour. Finishes bitter with an element of sweet sugar. Really nice, a solid strong warming bitter with a big flavour. Lacing on the glass was brilliant. Tasty.

Bottle. This is red amber with a densely fluffy one inch white head. The aroma has plenty of fresh apple and cherry, some wood, brown sugar, cinnamon. The head leaves spidery lacework on the glass. I taste plenty of full flavoured raisin, some more cherry moving to lots of golden delicious apple, really a pleasant combination. There is some hop kick to it, subtle with pine undertones. The finish is slightly bitter with some wood character. Mouthfeel is medium; head retention is fantastic.

a500 ml bottle from LCBO, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. OC11/08.

App.: Clear deep copper with a nice tan head. Aroma: Fruity, some tree fruits, some dark dried fruits, apples cherries, apricots, raisins, lightly spicy, a bit of brown sugar. Palate: Medium body, fairly soft carbonation. Flav.: Light molasses, some caramel, some brown sugar, lightly spicy, not really as fruity as the nose but some apples, light cherries, a little wood, a little alcohol; dry with decent bitterness.

Uninspired but not bad.

Really good ,robust dark ale.Hearty & not for wusses. br />A beer with lots of malt power.Yes ,malt is chief in this beer.Roast chocolate is there . It is tad syrupy on the palate,not too sticky however . This would go great with my ’famous’ Tunna stew.

Head dissapates quickly. Dark amber color. Aroma is malty with maybe some fruit. Taste is dry with definite malt taste. All in all a good beer with slight sweet flavor. Solid.

Rich aroma of dry fruits and a little oak. Flavour is quite dry and bitter but is lifted slightly by the complex fruity taste.