4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 20/20
Cask at The Sole Bay Inn Southwold 2011.Light amber with a small head,great lime and hop aroma with some nice sulphur,taste is of light malt,hoppy lime,wild flowers and toffee.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Hand pulled cask at the Moon Under Water (JDW) Watford. Amber with a lively off white head. Impressively hoppy in an American way and well balanced against a clean malt profile. Grapefruit and lime with a lovely oily resinous swallow. Excellent!
4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Draught in Waterbeach, Cambs. Ordinary looking amber beer, slight fruity nose. Then comes one of the best real ales I’ve had in years. Just a delightful bitterness with fruit tones. Nothing overstated, and that is where its beauty lies.Well done, Adnams!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: NOV 5, 2010 cask in standing order ... hazyy golden yellow ... soft dry hop nose ... big juicy floral lemon hop ... soft easy and rounded ... little lemon peel nice .. tk 2 hazy golden choice ... soft fruity hop nose ... light fruits ... big citrus hop little creamy 3.7
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Golden, clear, thin bubbly white head; aroma of fruit and malt; malty, slightly sweet with hops imparting quenching citrus fruit flavours - grapefruit and perhaps some lemon; bitter finish; moreish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
[Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading] Amber-gold with a small white head. Biscuit, hazelnut and a good, well balanced pithy grapefruit bitterness. A bit of pine in the finish brings sweetness to the palette. Unusual for Adnams in being hop rather than malt-led, but unlike many hoppy beers it’s still well balanced with malt giving a satisfying mouthfeel. Great stuff!
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Cask @ Coopers , Rochester) A vibrant beer I could drink loads of , sweet malts upfront ,emphasis , juicy dry , then my palate gets a reward of really fruity hop aromatics (lime and grapefruit) ;very fitting to drink on a pre-Spring kinda Spring day .
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
The Larry, Nuneaton. Beer of The Festival So Far for me, but I’ve only just realised there’s a festival on. Brilliant gold, pure white slick. Juicy, honeyed grapefruit and lemon rind aroma-8. Soft and perfumed with well-wrung green hop notes, passion fruit, lychee and lime. Cashew afters, and a suggestion of coriander. Never expected this kind of quality from Adnams.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Prince Arthur (JDW), Fleet. Amber with a thin white head; fresh citrus aroma with perhaps a hint of lime; sweet and biscuity with some chewy malts and a sharp grapefruit bitterness followed by a clean and dry finish. Very pleasant.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull at Muggletons, JDW, Maidstone. Hazy gold. Lasting off white head. It’s a wheat beer. Some good hop, I like the wheat flavours, good wheat beer flavours, some tangerine orange fruit. I thought this was very good. Good nick too. Very drinkable
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