AleSmith Brewing Company Olde Ale

Olde Ale

 

AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Traditional Beer - Old Ale Rotating
Score
7.69
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 25 Ticks: 124
Originally brewed in 2005 as the first in our annual decadance series, AleSmith Olde ale follows the tradition of classic British-style old ales. This rich, multi-forward ale showcases soft notes of currents and dried fruit along with complex dark sugars, all of which are balanced by a subtle bitterness derived from the addition of traditional English hops. AleSmith Olde ale is ready to be enjoyed now or I can be age for upwards of twenty years to further enhance its amazing depth of flavor. A hearty ale designed to please Bacchus himself.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

A very dark brown, a small head is dark beige. Aroma is rich with dark riped druits, dates and raisins, some port wine, toffee, drier wood and herbs, hint of vanilla. Very complex and succesfully aroma. Taste has rich and toffeeish maltyness, riped fruits and dates, balancing dry wood and herbs with bitterness, hint of vanilla. Full bodied, low carbonation, fresh anyway. Rich and complex, tasteful. The beer for slow enjoyment.

Tried on 17 Jul 2015 at 13:37


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from Kihoskh, Copenhagen - fuzzy brown pour with beige head. Sweet malty aroma and taste,toffee, caramel, plethora of dark dried fruits, nutty, some subtle spices, very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2015 at 08:08


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle pours out a amber ruby topped with a small sand head. Nose is sweet malts toffee caramel and some booze. Taste is more of the sweetness caramel toffee honey and some bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2015 at 23:04


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Hazy dark amber orange with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and dark sugar. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. Oily. 270315

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2015 at 14:23


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are burnt caramel, malt, dried fruits, syrup, hops and has a nice sweet finish.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2015 at 14:19


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle, 11%. Hazy dark amber/brown with medium beige head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hop, caramel, toasted, dark fruits, nuts, little plume, little chocolate and oak. Flavour is malt, caramel, dark fruits, oak, little chocolate, nuts, sweet, little plume, wood, hop, spices, warming and medium bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2015 at 14:18


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Creamy off.white good mostly lasting head. moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. moderate malty and hoppy flavor.. Average bitter finish. oily palate.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2015 at 14:17


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Johns. Pours dark amber with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, candy, sweet dried fruit, figs, plums. Flavor is rather sweet, malty, caramel, dried friut, alcohol. Medium to full body, soft carbonation, warming alcohol in the finish. 270315

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2015 at 14:15


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ Vinoble Odense. Pours dark ruby amber with a creamy head. Rich and vinous. Dark dried fruit, licorice, chocolate and caramel. Smooth and vinous. Quite soft! Delicious!

Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2014 at 09:09


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(Bottle @ VilleValla Pub, Linköping, Dec 15 2014 as Olde Ale MMXIV) Pours bright red brown, small whitish ring of head. Aroma is like English barley wine lite. Toffee, caramel, brown sugar, dried fruits (apricot, berries, prune), partly raisinated brandy grape notes. Flavour follows nose, with the initial malt and fruit sweetness fading into a nice brandy type middle with grape and spirit notes, a bit of an earthy, softly woody character, and then finally dried by alcohol to make a smooth finish with no real hop bitterness or residual alcohol heat. Medium full body, moderate carb. Very elegant old ale, nice fruity cognac-ish quality with no spirit harshness, though lacking the concentrated flavours of an excellent barley wine. Still really easy to drink and decently complex.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Dec 2014 at 16:30