Spiced Winter Beer
Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.50
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oh6gdx (51641) reviewed Spiced Winter Beer from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask@The Adnams pub near Tower Bridge (backlog). Ambery brown colour with a small creamy off-white head that leaves some lace. Aroma is sweet malts, some spices, mild toasted notes as well as mild toffee. Flavour is being rather similar in a nice balance. Quite pleasantly balanced and bodied for being 4 %.
BlackHaddock (17491) reviewed Spiced Winter Beer from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Half pint, hand pulled in the excellent ‘Castle’ (Cambridge in Nov 2011). The Adnam’s owned pub had 8 different beers of their own available in cask form, so half pints were the order of the day. Ruby or Chestnut like in colour, with a white head that left some good heavy lacing. Malty molasses in the nose, lightly toasted rather than full on burnt or roasted: some wintery type spices around too. The flavours imparted included nutmeg, cinnamon and grapefruit, all sitting in a great tub of maltiness and then watered down a little too much. Adnam’s Old Ale is 4.1% ABV and their other Christmas beer (Yuletide) is 4.5% ABV, this is a lot weaker and it shows in the mouthfeel if not in the initial taste. I would have preferred to have had a stronger spiced brew than this half and half concoction. Disappointed to be honest, nothing wrong with it really, just not what I expected from Adnam’s and it certainly isn’t a Winter Warmer!.
Leighton (35102) reviewed Spiced Winter Beer from Adnams 14 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at Hamilton Hall, JDW, London. Pours clear, dark amber with a foamy, creamy white head. Cinnamon spice in the aroma. Light to medium sweet flavor, some toasty malts, more cinnamon and other wintery spices, some grassy and leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. There’s some slight imbalance in the finish. The spiciness and grassy bitterness seem to clash a bit. Overall it is a nice beer, though, and the cinnamon and mild sweetness linger pleasantly.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Spiced Winter Beer from Adnams 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask (handpump) @ @ The Bree Louise, 69 Coburg Street, Euston, London, England NW1 2HH.Clear medium to dark brown amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, caramel, spiced, light cinnamon, soap - ginger notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, cinnamon, dusty, moderate spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101228]