Adnams Ghost Ship (Bottle)

Brewed by Adnams
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Southwold, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle at #EBBC12 Clean malt nose, full mouth feel. Challenger, motueka, citra and dry hopped with citra. Lots of citrus fruit flavour.

Bottle, mid-gold, good Citra dry-hop aroma, dry palate with light biscuity malt, a little pine coming through in the mid-body, dry finish. Not too complex.

Bottled 09/05/12. A bronze coloured beer with a whitish head and lacing. A good citrussy hoppy aroma which follows through to the mouth. Grapefruit and pineapple to the fore. Lilt like fruitiness. A good malt backbone. Very tasty.

50 cl bottle.
Pours clear golden color with medium-sized head. Aroma of floral hops, grass, herbs and malts, some mild caramel and honey also. Flavor of hay, caramel, mild fruits and nuts. Bitter palate. Decent.
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500 ml bottle. Finland.
Clear golden colour with small white head. Very nice fruity citrusy hoppy aroma with mild yoghurt sourness and mild bitterness. Flavour is moderately bitter hoppy with malt and some metallic sound. Bitterness stays in aftertaste.

A slightly red, golden beer with a medium but decreasing, blond head. Aroma is medium fresh, slightly caramelly and aromatic, lemon; quite mild aroma. Taste is fresh, biscuity, hint of fruits, medium, lemony bitterness. Light+ bodied, but that is not bothering, it fitts nicely with light freshness. Refershning and nice Golden Ale, a bit careful.

50 cl bottle @ home, BBE 28.02.2013
Aroma is sweetish with fruity hops and peach. Flavour has peach, fruity hops, some metal, hints of caramel and toffee. A golden ale with a fruity twist.

Bottled 500ml (K-Kamppi, BB 02/2013)
Clear amber-golden color, decent white head. Aroma of citrus, grass and metal. Suppose it is Citra which is dominating here. Light bodied. Citrus, hayish hoppyness with sweetish, almost caramelly maltyness. Light lingering grapefruit. Unfortunately this is only 4.5 % and backbone is very watery.

Bottled (from K Citymarket Lielahti, Tampere). Goldeny amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is mild earth, some bready and mild skunky notes at first, but they turn into a quite fruity and floral thing, which is quite nice in the end. Flavour is fruity and floral (mostly UK style hopping), with some sweet malts, mild herbs and some slight grassyness to it. Semibitter, and quite mouthdrying compared to it’s fruityness. A rather wellbalanced brew on bottle. Wellused hopping, which I have lots of fun at. In a blindtasting I would go for all UK hops, but it seems that’s a bit wrong. Rather typical British hopping though, so Adnams have apparently found out how to get the British style hopping from import hops.

500 ml bottle. BBE 28.02.2013.
Pours a golden colour with a foamy white head. Aroma of Goldings with some floral notes. Flavour of strong bitter hops, flowers, weak citrus and pale malts. Light bodied, thin mouthfeel and a light but high bitter finish. Refreshing.