Greene King Suffolk Springer (Bottle)

Brewed by Greene King
Style: Old Ale
Bury St. Edmunds, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Clear 500ml bottle, original review lost on BA site. Lovely amber colour, clear body, with a full head of foam. Can’t remember a great amount else about the beer or my review, no aroma of note . I do however remember I was quiet impressed overall, I promise to buy and re-review if I see this beer again.

bottle, nice vintage malty aroma,hinds of cherrys amber, brown, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, rich taste,medium body, slick feel, long finish, nice smooth rich beer.

Bottle from Morrisons. Dark brown pour with a tan head. Raisin, chocolate and dark fruit aroma. Nuts, malts and chocolate dominate the taste. Malty-sweet finish. Quite nice.

Rosy notes to a chestnut body, beige head that subsides in quick time. Smells medicinal, of elder and hawthorn. There’s also berry fruit and caramel to be smelt. The flavour brings that all together with milk chocolate and sorbet. Tastier than it smells by a long chalk. Sweet and fruity, I could see myself having another pint (if there was another to be had). The finish is lingering and sweet.

Nutty brown colour. Toffee and dark fruits on the nose. Chewy and a little bit sticky with more toffee and dark fruits. Would make a nice cask ale.

500ml bottle from Morrisons. Tasty little devil. Malty sweet, soft and laid back, with a twiggy bitterness to balance the malt. Not much awareness of age, so quite distinct from the Olde Suffolk. Some barley sugar notes. A very pleasant and enjoyable beer despite being filtered.

500ml bottle (S. Brevinga Alus Salons, Riga)
6+ Pleasant aroma, quite complex. Mostly sweetish, a touch caramelly, but a bit of freshly baked voisilma ("butter-eye") buns.
3+ Lovely deep red, brief head. Dead cert 4, but then the silly buggers stuck it in a clear bottle, and I’m not making an exception to my -1 docking rule for these guys.
7 Lovely full taste. It’s buns all over, with caramelised sugars too, pleasantly heading towards burntness. Plenty of old bitter hops, slightly drying and resiny - the dryness counterbalances the sweetness of the malts well.
4 Full palate, smooth, but with decent carbonation. Once the sugary aspects have slipped off your tongue the dark heavy dry bitterness remains and leaves a lovely finish. The resins fade to woodiness briefly, then walnut papers after a minute or so.
14 This is as good as Suffolk Strong. Packed full of flavour, but all of it aiming at a mellowness, being a solemn steady respectful pint, not some chugging nonsenes. Greede Kerching, I mostly hate you, but your head brewer can still sleep at night due to lovely strong ales like this. I’d love to have the individual components of the blend.

Didn’t really like this. Coffee aroma, treacle taste, very dark with a malty aftertaste

Deep garnet, densely saturated color, with a small but lasting tan head. I’m typically not a big fan of a fruitcake/fruitbread aroma but on here it’s done pretty well, lots of rum-drenched cherries, poignant maraschino, and caked-on crusty sugars yielding later to rich crusty brown bread. Smooth, silky, thick and sugary palate. Finishes with a long and lingering crust of dark bread cut by fruity acidity and alcohol dryness. The relatively high gravity works well. Let this one warm if it’s been in the fridge, cellar temperature makes it shine.

500ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown no head. Aroma is faint, slightly sour caramel. Taste is caramel start, with a raisin and caramel finish. Slightly sour aftertaste.