Adnams Broadside Strong Original

Brewed by Adnams
Style: English Strong Ale
Southwold, England

Out of the bottle, this pours an attractive red with a light tan head. Malt dominates the aroma wth notes of varying red berries. Once again, the flavour is malty: sweet and rich with a floral hop finish. Very nice.

Pours a deep red copper with a medium white head. Aroma features warm earthy almonds, a tangy english hop note, and a sweet fruit ester that is hard to put a finger on, I cant argue with the official line that its conserved fruit. On the palate there is sweet malt, nuts, almonds again , a touch of warming alcohol fruity hop flavour a \nd finally a firm bitter finish. Wow.

Nose of malt, fruit and hops. Pours dark chestnut colored beer. Some carbonation. Mouthfeel is smooth, with chewy malts. A nice hoppy dry finish. A good beer.

(Bottled) Dark brown, clear. Malty-earthy scent. Carbonated. Oily, sticky mouthfeel. Malty biscuits and some coffee in the mouth.

Bottle (500ml). From Waitrose. Poured clear, deep ruby-amber, with a solid, lasting foamy-creamy tan head. As I had the cask version just the night before, this was very interesting for me - the aroma is fairly deep roast malt, apple and light prune, lushly grainy and enough dry floral hops to keep it from seeming overly sweet; some alcohol on the nose. The taste - even roastier, the floral hops are losing the battle, but this is a lovely caramel/light molasses malt beer with nice cool weather spice in the finish - excellent taste, enough raisin character to almost seem vinous, or even mildly port-like. Solid body, a little sticky, nice carbonation, and enough alcohol to remind you this is WAY stronger than the cask version - as quaffable as the cask is, I really prefer this in the bottle, pasteurized or not (shock: I don’t give much more than a micrometrical crap about pasteurization/non-pasteurization). Good beer!

Bottle(6%) from Hi-Time Wine. Pour a nice hazy prune color. Nose is kind of sweet. Some licorice and mabe a hint of raisin. Lightly sweet roasty flavors. Quite malty. Some English hops in there as well. Smooth creamy mouthfeel.

Bottle: Spiced aroma, some corriander and carmelized sugar notes; heavy bicuitiness with a tart finish. Quite good, actually.

Name: Broadside Ale
Date: 10/12/1997
Mode: Bottle
Source: total beverage, DC

dark rusty amber, whispy head, sweet carmel aroma, rich carmel malt flavor, just a hint of bitterness

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Score: **4
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