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Atlantic Brother Adams Honey Bragget Ale

Atlantic Brother Adams Honey Bragget Ale

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A Mead brewed by
Atlantic Brewing Company

Bar Harbor, Maine USA

bottled
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1403.5/5.03.5/5.011.8%82.2 Snifter P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Akin to a barley wine, we suggest this ale as an after dinner drink. It has a truly unique & sophisticated flavor due to the use of wildflower honey as the catalyst for the production of alcohol. We simply use pale malt and a very small amount of Target hops in this Belgian style ale. The bulk of the body, color and sweetness come from the 2,000 lbs. of honey we add to the boil. The Brother is cellared for up to a year before it is bottled, which helps to marry the flavors and create the complex palate in this Bragget.

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 omhper (10456), Stockholm, Sweden
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/59/104/515/20
Oct 18, 2002  
Bottled. Gift from VENOM. THANKS!
Very dark red. Lingering balsamic honey aroma. Very sweet, very complex and vinuous. Like a fine natural sweet wine. Lovely flvaour, but thick mouthfeel, and I’m glad I’ve got plenty of friends to share this big bottle with, as a full bottle is too much.


 Oakes (6853), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/102/512/20
Mar 16, 2002  
Firm, highly alcoholic body, caramel notes, a lot of honey flavour. This is a stiff drink, folks. A little to mead-like for me, though. That little bit of malty chewiness is lost amidst the sweetness of the honey and sting of the alcohol.


 kp (6200), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 1, 2007  
Name: Brother Adam’s
Date: 06/10/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade
Vintage: 2001

muddy brown, whispy beige head, candy sweet carmel malt aroma with essence of rich fruits and brown sugar, hint of alcohol in the aroma, thick body that eventually thins out a bit, rich malt flavor, great fruity character including ripe figs, well tempered honey sweetness that has more of a brown sugar than a honey quality, ends up being a very rich ale with the brown sugar flavor and tempered sweetness, still some alcohol heat

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***/4
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Name: Brother Adam’s
Date: 01/06/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Blind Tasting
Vintage: 2006

clear amber, wispy beige head, sweet fruity aroma with nice earthy hops, rich fruit flavor, mostly sweet with just a bit of balancing hops, light tartness
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Name: Brother Adam’s
Date: 03/10/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2006
Score: 3.4 to 3.0

sweet honey aroma with a hint of spices and hot alcohol, sweet and fruity, light bitterness, light alcohol, needs lots of age, gets very fruity upon warming,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **/4


 argo0 (6176), Washington DC, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Apr 19, 2007  
(22oz bottle) Crystal clear body with small off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, bread, honey, herbal, some alcohol, caramel. taste is moderately sweet, honey, some herbal, cookie, light alcohol. Medium body with some stickiness.


 CaptainCougar (4638), Rockville, Maryland, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Jan 12, 2007    Updated: Feb 2, 2007
Sampled as part of a 19 beer blind barleywine tasting: Transparent copper orange pour has a thin, wispy-lacing white head. Sweet, earthy, grainy malty aroma has some mild light fruity notes. Body starts with a touch of biting carbonation, lightly sticky, grainy caramel malt with a touch of grapefruit flavor and a drier bitterness toward the finish.

2001 vintage sampled in June 2006: Pours a transparent amber mahogany with a thin ring of off-white head. Aroma of sweet caramel malt and floral clover honey. Body starts with a rich, sweet, complex malty flavor and drier honey complexity with some oak. Finishes slightly warming with a good sweet balance. Could hide the abv better, but seems to have aged well.




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