Jack Brand - 1659 Smoked Ruby Beer
Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, England 🏴
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
6.43
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This new light brown beer, exclusive to Wetherspoon in cask, has a subtle, sweet, smoky aroma, with its smoky flavour containing hints of raisins, dates and coffee, along with a restrained bitterness, leading to a dry finish.
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Tried
on 03 Nov 2022
at 12:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask. A deep red beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of bacon, smoke, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of smoke, bacon, and caramel, leading to a dry smokey finish
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Apr 2020
at 12:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty smoky aroma. Fruity malty spicy caramel flavor with smoky hints. Has a fruity malty smoky caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2015
at 12:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Adnams Cellar and Kitchen, Holt, Norfolk. It’s a mahogany beer with a thin off-white head and a middling amount of foamy fizz. It definitely smells the part- it’s got a smoked ham and woodsmoke whiff - although it’s more muted than your Schlenkerlas. On tasting the smokiness becomes even more muted, with some light malt and toffee and- unfortunately- some metal showing through. There’s some dryness in the short finish. Overall it’s an ok beer, and maybe a good, mild introduction to smoked beers for the newcomer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2015
at 17:50
5/10
Tried
on 22 Sep 2015
at 12:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled 330ml. -from Pivoljub Ljubljana. Dark amber coloured, small to medium sized off-white head, light smoke and malt in the nose. Sweetish malty, caramel, notes of dried fruits and smoke with rather short finish. Pretty average, expected better beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2015
at 17:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 330 ml from Pivoljub, Ljubljana. Pours reddish brown with off-white head. Roasted, caramel and bit smokey. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Pivoljub - The First Beer Shop in Slovenia
on 01 Jul 2015
at 15:49
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draught. Frothy White fair mostly deminishing head. Dark amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy very baconsmoked aroma. Moderate bitter very bacon smoked flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
on 21 Jun 2015
at 01:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap @ Fermentoren, Aarhus. Nice head with good duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are nice, smoke, little bacon and sausage, malt, caramel and hops. Full bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jun 2015
at 10:52
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle. Pours deep, hazy brown. Bubblegum aroma. Rather thin but quaffable smoked character. Could be better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2015
at 07:23