Yuletide
Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.45
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Available for a limited time at selected Wetherspoon outlets this Christmas.
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.
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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6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Aug 2012
at 11:48
7.6/10
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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’.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Apr 2012
at 01:04
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Subtle aroma and subtle sweet taste, which is more pleasant when it lingers.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2011
at 14:34
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
20th December 2007
Dark beer. Very dry palate. Lingering bitterness. Sublte undertone of orange and Christmas pudding. Okay.
Dark beer. Very dry palate. Lingering bitterness. Sublte undertone of orange and Christmas pudding. Okay.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2011
at 07:38
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Henglers Circus, JDW. Amber - ruby red colour, off-white head. Aroma is toasted malts, fruits, chalky. Flavour is some roastiness, fruits and light sour. Mediocre.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Dec 2010
at 10:32
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask at the Central Bar, JDW. Pours dark amber with a big, foamy, off-white head. Faint toasted malt aroma with light nuts. Moderately offensive flavor, with very little sweetness, some faint bread and plastic, and unpleasant, earthy bitterness. Light to medium in body with almost no carbonation. Bland, not tasty finish. There must be something wrong here.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2010
at 08:35
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 30/11/10. Copper coloured with a slight white head. Malty aroma with some earthiness, caramel and leafy hops. some plum fruit flavour with cereal malts and big, bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Nov 2010
at 15:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask handpull at Bohemian, Deal. Ruby/dark brown with lasting beige head. An odd mix of a traditional malty winter warmer and a spicy, peppery beer. Great condition mind. Actually I really like this. Proper spicy winter beer. Soft in mouth. Good dry malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jan 2008
at 05:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, Islington, London N1, UK. Clear medium brown color with a small, fizzy / virtually none, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, roasted, caramel, fruit / berry, raisin / plum. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (311207)
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2008
at 12:47