Explorer
Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.20
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Silver Champion Golden Ale, Champion Beer of Britain Competition
Explorer is light and refreshing, suffused with the aromas of a grapefruit grove. The citrus attack will burst on your palate as the hops deliver their fruity bitterness.
Available in 500ml bottle and in keg in selected Wetherpoon outlets.
Pale Ale malt is used to provide the biscuity backbone of this blonde beer but it’s the hops that give it its personality. We use two American hops, grown in the Yakima Valley in Washington. These hops, called Columbus and Chinook, add wonderful grapefruit flavours to the beer.
Explorer is light and refreshing, suffused with the aromas of a grapefruit grove. The citrus attack will burst on your palate as the hops deliver their fruity bitterness.
Available in 500ml bottle and in keg in selected Wetherpoon outlets.
Pale Ale malt is used to provide the biscuity backbone of this blonde beer but it’s the hops that give it its personality. We use two American hops, grown in the Yakima Valley in Washington. These hops, called Columbus and Chinook, add wonderful grapefruit flavours to the beer.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Cask at Junction Tavern, London) Very pale for a bitter. Also the beer was quite fruity. The most pleasant thing was the citricness in the aroma. The flavour wasn’t really at the same level. So, the little lack of balance was decrementing the score I gave.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2010
at 11:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Løvbjerg. Medium head with medium duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are caramel, malt and hops. Nice light bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2009
at 16:49
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ The George, London, Greater London England.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, corn, toaasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, citrus sour. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090803]
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2009
at 01:03
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask @ Ayrshire Real Ale Festival 09. Clear golden colour, small white head. Aroma of grassy hops. Taste of grassy hops and vegetables. Not good.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2009
at 09:43
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of grainy malt, citrus and apricot. Seet malty flavour
Tried
on 02 Oct 2009
at 13:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Frothy white good mostly deminishing head. DArk yellow colour. Light malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Citrus and grassy notes. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2009
at 02:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pale blond bitter, no head. Aroma is of citrusy hops . Has a sharp, refreshing edge and then a dry, bitter hop flavour. Very good and very refreshing.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2009
at 15:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@The George. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is spices, wood, fruits, some mild dry tea leafs as well. Flavour is grass, caramel, fruits and also flowery hops. Ends quite bitter. Standard.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Aug 2009
at 06:07
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Cask@The George). Pale yellow color, small white head, some lace. Dish water lemony aroma. Grassy, a bit herbal flavor. Uninspiring.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Aug 2009
at 03:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and caramel, as well as ligth notes of straw, while the flavor is sweet with notes of malt, elderflowers, and fruit, as well as light notes of malt. Thanks yespr for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2009
at 20:16