Southwold Christmas Ale
Marks & Spencer Stores in Paddington, Greater London, England 🏴
Brewed at/by: AdnamsBitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Winter
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6.39
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Old rating from 25-12-15 - 500ml bottle, pours clear chestnut with a creamy, mellow tan head. Aromas of nice spiced notes and sweet ginger. Tastes of a medium to sweet taste of light malt, with caramel, toffee, cinnamon, herbs, lemon, with quite strong bitter hops. Aftertaste of is dry with some caramel rusty bitterness. Overall a Christmas ale I really enjoyed.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours a dark brown colour with a tight beige head, plenty of roast malt in the aroma, the taste is medium bitterness with a dry bitter finish.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Southwold Christmas Ale from Marks & Spencer Stores 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle at ash's. Pours clear deep amber, nose is bready, malty, toffee, hint of fruit, taste is dull toffee, metallic, musty. 6/4/5/2/12
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Bottle thanks to cagarvie.
Appearance - deep brown and a beige head.
Nose - sweet malts and toffee with something a bit dirty earthy.
Taste - toffee, orange and brown bread.
Palate - light to medium bodied and then astringent.
Overall - not for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
bottle at ashs ...copper ..thin tan lacing ..soft herbal bitter malts nose ..bitter odd .. dry fruit ... vet meh
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle. No longer has 'Southwold' in the title but its clearly marked as Adnams and is 4.2% so must be the same. Chestnut pour with small beige top. Aroma has a rich toasted malt helped by the use of rye with notes of fruit cake and toffee. Taste follows aroma - there is a nice mixed dried fruit and blackberry with some light spicy notes to offset the maltiness. Slick near medium body, maybe a bit light for a winter beer but it does offset the richness. Moderately sweet and bitter. Overall a good bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Ocado. Brown pour with a beige head. Nose is toffee, dark berries, nuts, flat cola. Taste is dried fruit, raisin, cola, winter berries. Sweet malty finish. Very Christmassy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Ruby brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is a bit of Christmas pudding. Flavour is spice and pine, a little wood on a plum finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Rocky light brown head on a reddish brown body. Malt & spiced fruits aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a clean back. Red berries, liquorice, raisin &alt tastes with a tangy fruity finish. Decent.