3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 330ml. blue glass @ home.
Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, wet hay - grass - straw, moderate hoppy, citrus, wet grass - hay - straw. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110723]
1.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival. Clear golden, coarse head. Aroma of honey and boiled vegetables. Mid sweet with medium body. Sticky with plenty of compost heap flavour. Like a random British industrial lager.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled@Uusi Apteekki, Turku. Golden colour, small head. Aroma is sweet malts, quite floral and grassy hoppy with some slight notes of minerals. Flavour is sweet malts, some grass, floral notes and mild notes of fruits. Quite refreshing. Quite similar hopping to Fullers ESB, but at the same time
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
On tap at Bridge House, London. Pale copper with lasting beige head. This is, well,....terrible. It is just all over the place. Big hop over an artificial malt base. Peach/yeast aroma. Frankly it just doesn’t make any sense. Hop is just too extreme and sherberty for the body of the beer. Adnams yeasty apple aroma, but the rest is terrible. Mind you according to Jonathan Adnams, it wasn’t made for me anyway. As he says in The Publican, “But this beer is for people who have made the decision not to drink cask beer. We are seeing an increasing area of the on-trade where retailers have decided that cask is a non-existent proposition." Oh dear, dear, dear me........ It’s a sad day.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: APR 13, 2009 Draft @ The Bridge House, Bermondsey SE1. Pours a clear golden color with a creamy white head. Has a fruity malty fruity caramel aroma. Sweetish malty fruity caramel flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a sweetish malty fruity caramel finish.
2.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle at home ... golden amber ... big white head ... lager .. metallic nose ... eurg ... light zezty lemon ... grassy lager ... dull soft and not my thing at all
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
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.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
A Mes rate:
Tap at a cheesey wine bar on Marylebone High Street. Not impressed on two accounts. The fact that Adnams have even made this and also that it’s pretty poor. With their recent marketing push it seems clear Adnams are more bothered about making lots of money than they are about making decent beer. Golden with a decent head. Hoppy and artificial with crappy malt undertones akin to many a rank lager. Better than Stella.
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