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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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, sugar, paper. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090122]
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2009
at 02:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a clear deep golden with a small, off-white head. Lightly sweet caramel aroma. Medium body, sweetish caramel and fruit with a whiff of yeast. Dry and bitter finish. 200309
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2009
at 04:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Fruity hoppy aroma. Sweet caramel malt flavoured with a distinct floral hops note. Light bitterness to a nice citrusy hops accent. Ends medium dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2009
at 14:06
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 5.0%. Clear golden colour. Small white head. Sweetish aroma. Aromatic hop flavour, slightly teaish, and slightly sweet. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2008
at 07:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden with medium white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with citric notes. Sweet yeasty flavor with wheat and citric notes.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2008
at 06:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[500ml bottle from brewery shop] Shared with Dave. Slightly darker than I expected from the "blond beer" description. No head at all; medium carbonation, exactly right for the style. Strong citrus (grapefruit and lemon) balanced with a refreshing bitterness. Still the Adnams malty flavour here though - tastes like a Broadside mixed with Hooegarden! A top notch beer when you’re thirsty, this also goes very well with spicy food. This is one of my favourite English ales, and I often go back to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2008
at 09:59
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a longlasting white head. Has a fruity malty and slightly hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy flavor with some hints of citrus. Has a long fruity malty finish with some hints of apple in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2008
at 13:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. (RBNAG 07) A clear, yellow-golden beer topped by a decent, off-white head. Nice fruity hoppiness in the aroma, along with pale malts. The flavor is fruity, with a malty sweetness to balance the bitterness. The fruityness and bitterness is present in the finish as well, but slightly subdued. Medium body. A pleasant, quaffable beer. (071103)
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2007
at 12:53
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Bridge House, Southwark. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Fruity citrus aroma with some malty hints. Malty slightly hoppy flavor with hints of citrus. Fruity malty finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Dec 2007
at 08:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at RBNAG 07. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, hop, malt, fruit. Flavour is sweet, hop, malt, caramel, fruit. OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2007
at 03:01