Adnams Yuletide

Brewed by Adnams
Style: Old Ale
Southwold, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

JDW, Hackney during the North London Line crawl. Malty - deep and tasty in Adnam’s style. Nice.

Subtle aroma and subtle sweet taste, which is more pleasant when it lingers.

Tasted this in the Crystal Palace, Glasgow (JDW) in December 2010. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear ruby red in colour with an off white creamy head. Slight hop prickle in the short aroma. Good lacing and pleasant creamy mouthfeel. Pale malts give a digestive biscuit note with dark berry fruit, damsons and sultanas. Slight hint of liquorice in there. Spicy hops are present in the bitter aftertaste. Moreish finish with hazelnuts and sherry fruit notes. Tastes like an old English ale. Another good session ale from the Adnams portfolio.

Cask (The Regal (JDW), Cambridge)
6 Sweet fruit-coctail childrens sweets, ruby grapefruit and peach. Lots of bubblegum.
4 Very deep red, small scummy head, was from a sparkler.
6 Some apple retronasals, rich roasty almost treacly sweetness. I think I even got some ginger initially, but that didn’t return.
4 Smooth palate, very soft carbonation. Finish has some subtle bitter hops, but they feel a bit muted.
13 Adequate tasty bitter, nothing special.

20th December 2007
Dark beer. Very dry palate. Lingering bitterness. Sublte undertone of orange and Christmas pudding. Okay.

Cask Conditioned handpump Cordwainer Northampton. A dark amber to chestnut coloured beer with a white head and lacing. House yeast and fruity malts through this. A touch sweet and Christmassy but pretty ordinary really. Didn’t get much in the way of hops.

Cask @ Henglers Circus, JDW. Amber - ruby red colour, off-white head. Aroma is toasted malts, fruits, chalky. Flavour is some roastiness, fruits and light sour. Mediocre.

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2010 Cask @ The Hengler’s Circus. Mixed fruit aroma. Medium brown colour. Sour mixed fruit flavour. Sour aftertaste. Not great.