Yuletide
Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.39
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Brewed with East Anglian Pale Ale, Chocolate and Amber malts and hopped with Boadicea and Chinook. Yuletide has a dry spicy finish and grapefruit bitterness. It’s a wonderful dark ruby winter warmer with a good balance of flavours and a lingering dryish after palate that keeps you coming back for more.
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allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the white lady. Pours clear amber, thin off-white head. Aromas of red fruit, caramel, light nuttiness. Taste is biscuit, more fruit. Sweet finish. Not bad.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Granite City. It pours clear mahogany brown with a thick, creamy beige head. The nose is toasty, wood, varnish, caramel, dried cranberry and nut. The taste is bitter, wood, leather, dried berry, caramel, toasty, but, earth and nut with a dry finish. Medium body and fine, creamy carbonation. Balanced and easy going stuff.
RichTheVillan (12489) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the JDW Charlie Hall; clear copper pour with light tan head, nutty aroma, taste has tangerine a hint of spice, dried fruit and toffee.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark red brown colour. Aroma and flavour have a rich, sweet fruitiness similar to those of a fruity red wine or port.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Reddish chestnut with a thin beige head; rich malty aroma; smooth, dry and malty in the mouth, with a touch of treacle giving a slightly sweeter finish. Good stuff.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
[Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading] Chestnut in hue with a moderate creamy beige head & a light fizz. Woody up front followed by a little treacle & some chocolatey malt. A little plum sourness & a light but growing bitterness in the finish. A decent, well-balanced beer.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask, half at JDWs Angel. Dark amber body to a naked surface. Dark malty smell added by e touch of wet leaves. Dark malty taste, semi-sweet, together with herbal hops leading to a smooth malt roasted bitter ending. Fine with the Sunday roast dinner (London, 25.11.2012).
laiti (11645) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Cask @ Moon undet Water, Hounslow
Aroma is quite light with some malts and nuts. Flavour has harsh malts, some toffee. Nutty and dry finish with some lingering hops in the aftertaste. A bit thin, especially for christmas beer.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Served on cask at the Rose and Thistle, Frimley Green into a UK pint glass (Jan ’12). Ruby red in colour with an off white creamy head. Roasted malts and sugars on the nose, with a hint of spice and dried fruit. Was really impressed with the taste of this beer, I was getting dark berry fruits, biscuit and maybe raisins/sultanas. A pleasant creamy mouthfeel from this beer with a good finish, not too thin, just right for the ABV with a bitter aftertaste but not too harsh.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Yuletide from Adnams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Half pint, hand pulled in the excellent ‘Castle’ (Cambridge in 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. Dark amber to chestnut in colour, with a white foaming head. Brewed with Maris Otter, Chocolate and Amber Malts: the smell was always going to be malty and it certainly was. The hops used are Boadicea and Chinook but they don’t appear in the aroma at all. The taste was of a fruity malt loaf with a slight bitterness from the hops towards the end. The 4.5% ABV sits nicely within the brew making the beer easy to drink, a pleasant enough Christmas beer without ‘setting the world alight’.