Samuel Smith India Ale

India Ale

 

Samuel Smith in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
6.59
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 46 Ticks: 237
Brewed with well water (the original well at the Old Brewery, sunk in 1758, is still in use, with the hard well water being drawn from 85 feet underground); best malted barley and a generous amount of choicest aroma hops; fermented in ‘stone Yorkshire squares’ to create an exceptionally full-flavoured complex ale with an abundance of maltiness and fruity hop character. The label on the bottle is based on Samuel Smith’s Victorian letterhead when the brewery was a contractor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s forces.
 

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5/10
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2023 at 21:49

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Nice sweet malt aroma with some hop notes. Dark amber, foggy, medium offwhite head. Tastes syrup sweet, not very bitter, balanced. A litter dry finish, medium body.
Tried on 30 Oct 2022 at 07:54

6/10
Tried on 04 Aug 2022 at 16:11

7/10
Wie erwartet eher untypisch, sehr malzig-röstig, sanfte Hopfenbitterkeit, aber spannend
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2022 at 20:47

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Clear copper/amber with a decent white head. Aroma of oranges, malts, zest, some herbs and mild lemons. Taste of oranges, caramel, malts, herbs and marmelade. Pretty strong (herbal) bitterness. Medium to strong carbonation. Very balanced. Way more flavourful than I expected. Great.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2021 at 22:56

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2021 at 19:47

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Appearance is amber, quite clear, with a 1-2 finger foamy beige head. Aroma is malt, orange peel, marmalade hints, zesty hop fruit. Underlying biscuity malt. Taste is full fruity hops, fluffy malt, biscuity notes, hints of nutty malt, orange, trace of citrus fruit, brambly English hops.
Tried on 08 Oct 2021 at 19:14

6/10
Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2021 at 19:59

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled India pale ale in the completely traditional English way - and therefore basically the same as an English style pale ale. Thanks Craftmember for sharing. Medium thick, snow white, fine-bubbled, dotty-lacing, largely stable head on a crystal clear, warm amber-tinged orangey golden blonde beer. Aroma of dried thyme, herb cheese, crackers, Naan bread, jute, moist paprika powder, old cotton cloth, hay, peanuts. Dryish onset, some dried plantain but low in fruitiness, medium carb, supple and slick mouthfeel; dry cracker- and bread crust-like maltiness, bit peanutty, bittered by a herbal, noble hoppiness, ending quite rooty and quinine-like with light accents of old dried grapefruit peel and 'herbes de Provençe', but also something cheesy (herb cheese, abbey cheese even), dry, long and a bit 'dusty'. Very old school and very English, an IPA the way nobody these days imagines it - but completely in the vein of IPA in its historically original form. Too bad for the pasteurization, though, I wonder what this tastes like with live yeast still in it.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2021 at 12:10

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Ordentliches, englisches (I)PA, schön hopfig, bitter, leicht Karamell, leichte Frucht, spät trocken, passt. Schöne Flasche.
Tried on 04 Aug 2021 at 16:45