Adnams Spindrift

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Appearance is dark golden with rapidly diminishing lacing, Aroma is floral hops, lemon, pine, white wine grapes but dom’t know why. Taste is lemon, wood, spples, floral, bitter, really nothing going on here I am afraid. Maybe skanked. Really stupid bottle colour. Probably light shot too. Nice bottle design but purple?? This is not an alcopop. Bottle - Tescos.

330ml gay purple bottle (Drink Shop, Tallinn)
6+ Rich sweet nutty malty aroma, a touch husky and hoppy. Does smell like a beer.
3 Clear orange, brief fizzy head.
6 Retronasals have some sweet fruity and citrussy hops, but also some swimming-pool tinges. Taste has some sweet bready base, but a nice bite of citrussy hops, but they’re a bit processes, not live enough.
3 Watery palate, crisp carbonation. Pleasantly citrussy and grassy finish, but there’s a bit of alcohol there too.
12- Probably started off an OK beer, but they’ve filtered out any life or balls this may ever have had. Don’t do that!

28th February 2008
On tap somewhere! Made with Boadicea hops. Sweetish beer, a little wheat beer like. Decent palate with a sublte apricot flavour. Alright.

Clear gold pour medium head and carbonation aroma fruity floral melon grain f;avour yeast and grain lychee sweetness mild bitter resinous touch aftertaste sweet mild bitter grain fruit yeast not bad

Bottle. Bronze beer with a light head. The aroma is lightly hopped with a slight hint of malt. The flavour is more strongly hopped, bitter and toffee. Overall an average hopped and toffee bitter.

[330ml bottle from Adnams Cellar & Kitchen shop, Holt, Norfolk] Rather natty blue bottle. Pours amber-gold, small white head, moderate but prickly fizz. Smells like the better class of macro lager, and at first tastes of it too, with a slightly watery mouthfeel. Soon a rich malty lemon flavour comes through, yet it still manages to finish crisp, clean and dry. Probably a great transition beer for lager drinkers, as it definitely has both lager and ale characteristics. Nevertheless, it’s decent enough to hold the interest of the more serious drinker if they’re looking for a light refreshing summer drink. Not one of Adnams better offerings, but still decent - the superb Adnams malt wins me over as ever!

Bottle,beautiful purple blue glass bottle held to the light,pity the beer didn’t follow suit,amber with a small head,aroma of hops and wet wood,lemon,taste of hops light malt biscuit and cardboard,lemon,dry bitter finish.

Keg at The Red Lion, Southwold, Suffolk. Gold to amber with white fizzes head. Sharp, thin and tinny bitter with plenty of CO2 for the lager boys. A sharp thin malt note in the background. Not something I would try again.

On tap. Aroma is a full throttle malt, with some mild fruitiness, light copper, tiniest tan head, some pretty lace . Flavour is a fuller fruit, some decent malt and a touch of caramel.Light bodied, very well balanced pleasantly sweet mouthful. A really fine session!

Cask at Bridge House. Gold body with tiny head. Bitter, prickly. Grapefruity flavours. Quite sweet. Dry. Sharp taste.