Southwold Bitter (Bottle/Can)
(Batch of Southwold Bitter)
Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.35
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Brewed with the finest Maris Otter and optic malts, sourced locally to the brewery, with the addition of three hop varieties including First Gold.
Southwold Bitter is a beautiful copper-coloured beer, late and dry-hopped with Fuggles for a distinctive, lingering hoppiness.
Brewed with the finest East Anglian Pale Ale malt barley, sourced locally to the brewery. We use Fuggles hops which we add late in the boil to preserve the herbal flavours of this traditional English hop.
First brewed in 1967, it was originally called Adnams Best Bitter. It holds our oldest trademark, Southwold Jack, and remains the original hero in our range.
Southwold Bitter is as distinctive as ‘Southwold Jack’ (the knight with the sword) who appears on the pump clip and has done so through many incarnations. Many Adnams beer fans would agree with our Head Brewer that Adnams Bitter is a truly distinctive pint. We wouldn’t be overselling it to describe it as a classic.
Southwold Bitter is a beautiful copper-coloured beer, late and dry-hopped with Fuggles for a distinctive, lingering hoppiness.
Brewed with the finest East Anglian Pale Ale malt barley, sourced locally to the brewery. We use Fuggles hops which we add late in the boil to preserve the herbal flavours of this traditional English hop.
First brewed in 1967, it was originally called Adnams Best Bitter. It holds our oldest trademark, Southwold Jack, and remains the original hero in our range.
Southwold Bitter is as distinctive as ‘Southwold Jack’ (the knight with the sword) who appears on the pump clip and has done so through many incarnations. Many Adnams beer fans would agree with our Head Brewer that Adnams Bitter is a truly distinctive pint. We wouldn’t be overselling it to describe it as a classic.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours deep amber, somewhat clear with two finger vanilla/yellow head, lots of lacings. Aroma is malty, caramel, bread and some floral hops. Taste is soft, malt, caramel, muscovado sugar, and a light lingering bitterness with hops. Medium body, soft carbo, oily texture. Well balanced and very true to the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2014
at 14:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Pours clear, medium amber-brown with a lively beige head. Apple, toffee aroma. Taste is a bit oxidized...apple, caramel malt, slight leafy bitter, fruit taste. Not bad, but obviously not a fresh specimen.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2014
at 16:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Rating from 2012. Dunkelbraun im Glas, leicht malzig, Bitter-typisch. Etwas nussig, malzig, trocken. Etwas dünn, aber gut.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2014
at 01:57
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Shared 50cl bottle at Susie’s party. Appearance - dark amber with a decent head. Nose - toffee, biscuits and some apples. Taste - more toffee apple and biscuits. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a fairly fresh finish. Overall - a decent bitter. So many of their beers are well executed but basically very similar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2014
at 13:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Mørk brunrød farge med flott høyt skum som ligger langs glassveggen. Lukter karamell, appelsin,grapefrukt og noe humle. Ikke veldig fyldig og smaker bra bittert, men også noe metallisk i smak og ettersmak. Overall, helt ok..
Tried
on 31 Dec 2013
at 08:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home, cheers to JF, 26/12/13 (closing stages of) . Clear copper amber with a well appointed off white head. Nose is bready malts, light floral, orange notes, grass. Taste comprises light toffee, fruit notes, straw, bready malts. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry bitterings in the last hurrah! Ok bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2013
at 15:55
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 4.1%. Clear grey amber colour. Small frothy head. The flavour is teaish with a slightly rough bitterness. Good bready notes, hint of liquorice. OK balanced beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2013
at 15:35
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours clear dark amber with small off-white head. Clear aroma of malt, caramel, fruit, and hops. Bitter flavour of hops, with notes of fruit and caramel. High carbonation. Perfumy notes. Bitterish finish. OK but rarher weirdly aromatic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2013
at 15:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Murky Light Brown, Medium Head, Medium Lacing. Malty Aroma, Sweet, Malt, Light Bitter. Slightly Watery. Easy Drinker, Mellow. Nothing Too Bad Nothing Too Exciting. Decent. I guess, Worth A Try...
Tried
on 14 Oct 2013
at 20:16
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
First rating - 10/11/2013: Bottle from Asda, High Wycombe. RB score 6/3/7/3/13 (3.2) Copper with a low white head. Lots of malt, a little caramel, some autumn berries and a light earthy bitterness to finish. Yes it’s a standard bitter from a big regional, but as usual Adnams manage to do it a little better than the other big regionals and- somehow- manage to hide the pasteurization. Decent. Second rating - 8/3/15: Bottle that Dave shared with me - cheers! RB score 7/3/7/3/14. Really lovely rich malty flavour. Nice nuttiness too, with just a hint of berries behind. Good rich mouthfeel is spoiled just a little by fizz. However, as supermarket bitters go this is really rather good. Score shown is the average of all ratings.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2013
at 11:07