Adnams Old Ale

Brewed by Adnams
Style: Old Ale
Southwold, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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]

Cask at NWAF 2009. A brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of malt both sweet and roasted as well as caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt and caramel as well as lighter notes of over ripe fruits, leading to a dry bitter finish, where the caramel note lingers.

From cask at Market Porter. Pours dark and golden deep amber to brown with a lacing off-white head. Light malty and fruity aroma. Mild spiced and malty flavoured with a light bitterness coming through. Mild bitterness into the finish. Light roasted and spiced lasting impression.

<i>Gravity at The Bree Louise, London, 5-3-6-2-11</i>
Very dark brown color with amber shades. Very simple beer, just with some dry caramel and dark chocolate flavor; almost boring. Could as well be a Mild.

<i>2008-10-09, cask conditioned at Market Porter, London, 5-3-6-3-11=28</i>
Dark brown color with amber shades; thin creamy head. Light aroma, stale water. It has some caramel and medium chocolate flavor, average bitterness, but not much interesting, just a plain Brown Ale to drink while chatting.

Cask handpull at The Bridge House, London. Ruby colour with disappearing beige head. Slightly sour fruit aroma. Wonderful in mouth. Dark fruit aroma. Has some sourness. Bit like Harvey’s Old, lacks the real sourness I’m looking for. Sour plums and tobacco, fruit and choc and very slight sourness in mouth. Finish lasts with slightly sour plum, Victoria Plum, I rather like the fruit. I like it, fruity and interesting. Soft mouth feel.

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

Cask conditioned at The Old Fourpenny Shop Hotel, Warwick. Dark brown, ruby hued beer with light brown head. This is a sweetish but tart beer with a heavy plummy fruitiness, plenty of roasted malt in the body, but not to the depth of a stout / porter. Aromatic nose. Pretty drinkable.