Samuel Smiths Old Brewery Pale Ale

Pours a darker amber color with a thin off white head. Aromal is of caramel, malts, a hint of hops, and a sour fruit flavor I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Flavor was the same with a slightly bitter finish. Another good Samuel Smith’s brew.

Clear amber color with a thin white head. Mild hoppy aroma. Sweet honey and malt flavor with a hoppy aftertaste.

Bottle: Light copper colour, great nutty coffee aroma, taste is a bit watery and one dimensional. Just OK not great.

From a distinctive gold foil wrapped narrow neck clear 1pt. 2.7oz. Samuel Smith bottle with no freshness date, poured into a Samuel Smith shaped pint glass. Made a very good appearance, poured a clear red hued copper with a large foamy, frothy white head that as it reduced in size left a lot of ringed sticking. Had a sweet fruity/honey hopped aroma with whiffs of caramel maltiness and nutty yeastiness. Good carbonation and a dry, smooth medium bodied mouth feel, very good drinkability. Very tasty, a sour fruitiness with a mellow hop bitterness, a sweet biscuity maltiness and a grainy, dry finish with a lingering sour graininess in the palate.

Light aroma of malts and bready yeast. The flavor starts slightly sweet with notes of toffee and a bit of apple and then turns slightly bitter. Dry finish like a moderate IPA. Carbonation provides a prickly mouthfeel that cleans everything up. There was a slight tart flavor throughout in the background.

Poured from the bottle at The Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street in London, a ruby amber colour with a good creamy head, some carbonation. A hint of caramal in the aroma with some grassy undertones. Citrus in the flavour with some underlying butterness. Quite sharp and bitter - refreshing.

Bottle. Deep amber with a beige creamy head. Aroma, unfotunately, is more skunk than malt. Damn clear bottles. Good nutty caramel malt with some fruitiness and a dry finish. I know I would love this if it was 100% unskunked. I normally dig the flavor of English pales and bitters, and I like Sammy’s dark beers.

Pours with almost no head. Amber in color, nice drinkable beer. It has a spicy taste that mellows out after drinking a bit.