Solebay Celebratory Beer

Bottle at Craft Beer Rising 2014 - London. Pours clear bright gold with a frothy, white head. Good beer. The nose has yeast, light ginger, lime. Medium to big sweet flavour, with pale and lightly doughy malts, white sugar, floral notes. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Faintly warming to finish, with rich and sugary pale malts, light dough, yeast, flowers, mellow citrus and ginger. Nice, dynamic.

Bottle from Adnams Cellar and Kitchen, Holkham, Norfolk. Hazy, orangey amber. Thin, filmy, sticky, white head. Thick, sweet, grainy malt. Marzipan. Almonds. Gingerbread. Light, yeasty, breadiness. Taste is spicy dry. Some chewy, fruity sweetness. Palate is chewy and thick. Ton of stuff going on in this. Bready, yeasty, dry, chewy finish. Very easy drinking.

Bottle at Craig’s. Pours golden, sticky sweet, toffee, fruity, light citrus.

Bottle courtesy of Helen & Geraint, Oxford, consumed Saturday 31st May 2014 had this at Carol & Haydns Summer party. Pours orangey gold with white/off white head. Sweet and malty with some alcohol soaked orange peel. A big beer but actually one that drinks considerably easier than 10%. Quite thick and substantial in mouth, but as mentioned orangey, its very good, thanks to Geraint and Helen for letting me try this. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov15 3.7

Bit of weird one to have after all the imperial stouts, pours golden with a white head, high sparkle. Aromas of orange and mint, some green apple. Taste has more herbal notes and a toffee sweetness. Clean finish, good.

Bottle at home... Copper... Thin white lacing.... Soft fruits... Sift floral nose .. Lught mint nose... Soft sweet yeast... Soft fruits... Rich sweet floral fruits... Lught tocfee... Light sweet rich fruits

(Bottle) Chose a celebratory beer from one of my favourite breweries for my 800th rating - thanks Mandy and Duncan. Pours slightly hazy golden amber with little head. Fine, light and balanced aroma of light malt with grassy hops. The palate is full bodied, rich, almost sticky, with very fine, moderate carbonation. The taste is well balanced; rich but not overly so. There is a rich backbone of sweet light malt. The foretaste has some balancing citrus / green apple tang. The mid palate is all sticky sweetness, and then some pleasant bitterness, with a hint of alcohol burn, develops to bring back balance. This bitterness persists giving a long finish which is a mix of sweet malt and hop bitterness, with the hops winning out in the end for a crisp close. A very unusual beer; really a sparkling barley wine, I guess. Clever, different, impressive, and dangerously quaffable - at over 10% in a 0.75 litre bottle.

Lovely packaged 0.75 Litre bottle; poured into four tumblers just before a wedding in Sep 2012. Amber/orange body; with an off-white head on each glass. Malty molasses in the nose, with yeast and summer fruit esters in the mix. The taste was also leaning towards maltiness with a yeast and fruity feel. You’d never guess it was from Adnam’s because of the ‘Belgian’ feel it has and of course the alcohol level. Really liked it, pity it was shared with my Dad and two brothers!

Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Sweetish malty spicy yeasty flavor with a weak hoppy hints. Has a sweetish malty spicy yeasty finish.

Bottled. An amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma has strong notes of fruit combined with medium notes of yeast. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, yeast, and fruit, leading to a dry alcoholic finish. A fine Belgian Ale.