Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Red amber ale. Virtually no aroma. Simple taste, quite smooth, watery; poor palate. Why do they export it?
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Extra Smooth from John Smiths 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
A very smooth and drinkable ’bitter’, perhaps without too much character. Still, I openly admit enjoying it! Rerate nitro-can: Delete the ’perhaps’ - it’s DEFINITELY without too much character. I over-rated this brew the first time. It’s still drinkable, but far from great!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Nut-brown. Neutral aroma. Caramell-ish toffee- flavour. Somewhat watery but still enjoy-able.
pilsnerrogge (4763) reviewed Extra Smooth from John Smiths 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Some fruitiness, some toffe-flavour. Need some more alcohol.................
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Original (Cask) from John Smiths 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
More or less like the Extra Smooth - but without nitrogen...................
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle). A good but somewhat overrated beer. Aggressively carbonated. Better in the Good Old Days when it was stronger.
Rerate, draught in Newcastle: I found the colour to be darker brown than the bottled version (can that be?), and the flavour was fuller and richer - even though the pub tried to ruin it by serving it ice cold.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Great color, somewhat thin but distinctively smokey flavor and I thought it had a better head than seems to be the general consensus here. I was worried about the clear bottle leading to skunk city but that wasn't the case at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Nut brown, smallish head. Rather sweet, somewhat nutty, medium bodied, rather low bittterness. Not very complex, but for a massproduced beer it is not bad.
caesar (10848) reviewed Extra Smooth from John Smiths 24 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Nice dark appearance, with a thick creamy head. But again nothing different from other english stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Malty aroma. Bittersweet taste. Nice stuff!.................................