Adnams Old Ale

A Mes rate: Cask at the White Horse.
Awesome dark mahogany colour. No head but it’s still good to look at. Hats off to Adnams for making something that, to me, seems like a proper old ale. Good barley and caramel, slight straw, plenty roasty and a bit of chocolate. Top condition at the White Horse for once too.

Handpulled cask at several Suffolk and Essex pubs over the years. Dark ruby with an off white head. Sweet and roasty with a hint of caramel and gentle english hops.

Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester. Pours a dark ruby color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweetish roasted malty caramel flavor with some hints of chocolate. Has a sweetish roasted malty caramel finish with some hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

Cask (handpump) @ Fox & Anchor, 115 Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 6AA.
Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light hoppy, orange, fruity - fig. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is , carbonation is soft. [20081231]

(Handpump at Saracens Head, Diss) Pint looked pretty good - dark red colour with an off white almost beige head with a good speckled appearence. Smelled average, malt and plum. Well balanced malty taste with a hint of choclate and a dryish finish. Pretty average, but I’d drink this over Broadside, their premium bitter.

On draught at the Jolly Sailor in Orford. Deep, dark ruby with islands of beige head. Aroma consists mainly of well rounded chocolaty malts. Light chocolaty flavour with an airy powdery nature and hints of burnished, lightly smoked coffee. Tasty and easy to drink pub beer.

cask at Cloister edinburgh ...red brown ... sweet fruit malt ... deep fruit tones ligth roast ... light bitterness... light spice ... not reall an old ale.

Cask at Woking beer festival. Pours a dark brown coloured beer with a thin white head. The aroma is very malty, the taste is malty and with a hint of winter fruits, with a clean finish.