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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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Brown 500ml bottle with a 4.5% Bitter inside, best before 16th July 2009, drank on 22nd April 2009. Poured (twice) into a La Chouffe stemmed tulip shaped glass. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Deep amber body with a very good, rich and high tanned head. The beer had a teak wood sort of hue to it, clear and wholesome looking too. Very different to the cask version and a lot stronger in alcohol. The aroma, taste and mouthfeel just don’t match up and why should they, this is obviuosly a completely different beer. Hops, barley and nuts in the aroma, along with some malt bread and toasted brown bread. The beer just tastes right, good bitter bite and a hoppy aftertaste, a classic British Bitter. Adnams are a favourite of mine and this is the sort of product that highlights why. A joy to hold and drink!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2012
at 03:33
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium to dark amber orange colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee - wood - nutty - grass. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120331] --- Beer aliased from original tick of The Bitter (Bottle/Can) on 04 Aug 2006 at 03:10 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Bottle 500ml. Dark amber colour with little white head. Aromas of the english hops and some fruitiness. The flavor is hops, toasted malt and nuts and some toffee that is soon overtaken by hoppy bitterness. --- Beer merged from original tick of The Bitter (Bottle/Can) on 04 Aug 2006 at 03:10 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Bottle 500ml. Dark amber colour with little white head. Aromas of the english hops and some fruitiness. The flavor is hops, toasted malt and nuts and some toffee that is soon overtaken by hoppy bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2012
at 13:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Originally rated October 2004. Sampled from their nice original 500ml brown bottle. Poured a beautiful amber-brown with orange highlights. The descant white head left an amazing amount of lacing. The nose was fruity with caramel malts, and hints of floral scents. Taste is hoppy, but not very bitter ??!?! Smooth mouthfeel with a dry finish. Some malt is in the taste too. I will try and seek more Adnams product, as I like this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2012
at 00:33
6.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Purchased from Half Time Beverages.
Bottled on Dec 11, 2011
It pours a clear deep gold copper with a 2 finger head of white foam. My imperial pint glass looks so gorgeous right now.
It smells grainy with a fruity backbone and has some light bitter notes.
The taste has some grain like in the smell, more bitterness than the smell, a kind of aspirin bitterness that doesn’t hit my palate all that well. It finishes slightly on the sweetish side where the medium light body gets a bit thin.
This is not a bad Bitter. The abv is nice and low and drinkabilty as far as said abv goes is great. The flavours just don’t mesh as well for me as I hoped.
Bottled on Dec 11, 2011
It pours a clear deep gold copper with a 2 finger head of white foam. My imperial pint glass looks so gorgeous right now.
It smells grainy with a fruity backbone and has some light bitter notes.
The taste has some grain like in the smell, more bitterness than the smell, a kind of aspirin bitterness that doesn’t hit my palate all that well. It finishes slightly on the sweetish side where the medium light body gets a bit thin.
This is not a bad Bitter. The abv is nice and low and drinkabilty as far as said abv goes is great. The flavours just don’t mesh as well for me as I hoped.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2012
at 15:43