Adnams Explorer (Bottle)

Brewed by Adnams
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Southwold, England

Gold coloured ale small head ample carbonation to stem the brew aroma fruity hops slight earthyness malt smoothness flavour citrus strong bitter and hops grapefruit and lemon malt sweetness on par with the bitter great for a session ale.

Bottle@Home. Hints of citrus and hop in the aroma. Golden color, white irregular head, fair lace. Malty, light herbal/floral, light bitter, some citrus. Medium body. Refreshing and clean.

Rusty copper hue with a fast dissapating head. Light hoppy aroma. Light malty taste with a fruity, citrus finish. Malty flavour develops in the mouth long after you have sipped the beer. A pleasant enough bottle.

Bottle from Asda. Pours a sort of sparkling copper colour, not exactly blonde. Malt aroma, trace fruit. Thin malt flavour, some fruit and medium bitterness. Starts off feeling fairly fresh and pleasant but there is a burnt sugar character probably due to pasteurisation that weighs it down and makes it feel sickly. Not too good.

Bottle. Caramel coloured beer with a fizzy head. The aroma is plainly dry and the flavour is caramel, slightly dry and off bitter. Overall a fairly standard beer.

Bottled, pasteurised, 500ml. Orange gold with white head. Adnams are one of my favourite breweries and this was given to me at a meet the Brewer night, so I wanted to be generous, but it has nowhere near the character of the cask beer, it is sharp and a little tinny and for its ABV, somewhat thin. There is a reasonable hoppiness on the finish, but I did expect so much more.

Looks lagered. Light amber, not much aroma to speak of really. a sweet chewy herby honey orange mouthful thats nice at first but nothing comes in afterwards to wash it away. a good ABV. It would not be good with less. In hindsight I may have had it too cold but i doubt i’d give it another chance. Many reviewers from down under seam to be getting stale tasting bottles. I didn’t have any problems like that.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2006) Orange/amber, small white head. Fruity citric aroma, some peach and pine apple. Hoppy, herbal flavor, fruity and with sourish notes.