Adnams Broadside Strong Original

Brewed by Adnams
Style: English Strong Ale
Southwold, England

Burnished copper, with beautiful, abundant, cloud-top tan head, settling into a sticky, meringue-like mass. Brown sugar, creme brulée, strawberries and marmalade. Full-flavored, sweet and gently citrus malt. Soft, rounded palate. Robust, full flavors, yet within careful balance. All around good!

An exciting aroma with cherries, sweet nuts and a little caramel. Pretty creamy and soft palate, which gives a good impression right from the start. Very malty, but not roasted. Beautiful taste with cherries and raisins. However, these tastes are not dominating completely. The alcohol-taste is also obvious, and the beer is great hopped. The nuts can only be notified vaguely in the taste, but this is probably a good thing that keeps the beer from being too sweet and complex. The aftertaste is at first marked by a great bitter hopping, but it dissapears pretty fast to let the cherries dominate for a while. Then an unfortunate acrid taste is appearing. A big shame. Someone, please make the brewery remove this acridness. It would be near to the perfect brew without it.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of caramel malts, alcohol, citrus, and hops. Flavor is caramel, fruit, and slightly bitter in the finish. Ok beer.

Smells and looks fantastic. Flows nicely. A caramel-aroma head. A very good beer. Medium heaviness but a nice flavor. A little hoppy graininess near the end. Excellent.

Bottle. Color is dark ruby with a small head and short duration. Aroma is caramel and hops. Taste is rich and full with a hoppy finish.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours murky orange\brown with a decent sized tan head. Aroma of sweetness, caramel malts, alcohol, barley, citrus, and hops. Flavor is semi-sweet, caramel, malty, bitter hoppy bite, citrus, and slight fruit. Good body, decent brew.

Enjoyable. Mahogony body, great light brown head. Toffee and dark malts, with restrained but fully adequate British hopping. Sweetness has notes of plums and chocoolae, but nicely offset by the hops..

12 oz bottle labeled 6% abv. Beautiful clear mahogany pour with a firm, long lasting, tan head. Nice malty, sweet aroma. The flavor is excellent, complex and interesting. Starts out malty sweet but not overly so, becoming tangy and tingly on the tongue, and then a late bitterness kicks in after the swallow, which lasts a while. An interesting variety of flavors, well matched and balanced. Loads of English character in this one, and a real pleasure to drink. Picked up a 4-pack for $9.99 at The Fresh Market, Jacksonville, FL. Maybe a little pricey there, but not outrageously so.