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Samuel Smiths Old Brewery Pale Ale

Samuel Smiths Old Brewery Pale Ale - Premium Bitter/ESB

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 Percentile 
79
overall
Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

Tadcaster, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
8283.35/5.03.35/5.05%89.1English pint
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Commercial Description:
Bottle: Pastuerised
Captures the soul of beer. It has a maltiness that reminds you that beer is a product of the soil. Balance of malt and hops.
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 Lowe1983 (1029), Fairborn, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Feb 9, 2006  
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.


 maniac (2628), Richmond, Virginia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Feb 8, 2006  
Clear amber color with a thin white head. Mild hoppy aroma. Sweet honey and malt flavor with a hoppy aftertaste.


 ghawener (952), San Salvador, El Salvador
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/55/103/59/20
Feb 8, 2006  
Bottle: Light copper colour, great nutty coffee aroma, taste is a bit watery and one dimensional. Just OK not great.


 jpm30 (1588), East Central, Georgia, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/517/20
Feb 7, 2006  
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.


 jcr (1136), Jasper, Indiana, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Feb 6, 2006  
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.


 TheGrandMaster (1846), Auckland, New Zealand
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
Jan 22, 2006  
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.


 antisnobJP (275), St. Michael, Minnesota, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/55/103/511/20
Jan 19, 2006  
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.


mike4aker (25), USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Jan 7, 2006  
Pours with almost no head. Amber in color, nice drinkable beer. It has a spicy taste that mellows out after drinking a bit.



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