Adnams Explorer (Bottle)

Brewed by Adnams
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Southwold, England

A blonde?? Don’t think so. Mildly bland metal tastings over a placid dour core. Where is the grapefruit grove referred to on the bottle?? Compared to the Broadside is not good.

Bottle, bought @ Tesco, Earls Court, London.
Pours a dark, lightly pale golden. A creamy white head with good duration and light lacing. Aroma is a bit perfume-like, some yeast and subdued hops. Fine mouthfeel. Weak flavour, though. Lightly sweet with a heavy yeast note amongst a biscuity maltiness and a slight metal off-flavour.

The label on the bottled proclaims something about a "citrus attack" but I found this beer yeasty and weirdly vegetal more than bitter or sweet. This isn’t one I’d recommend; lots of brewers are doing this sort of blond beer much better.

500 ml bottle, RBNAG07. Golden colour. Clear. Small off-white head. Herbal aroma. Floral hop flavours. Notes of citrus and juniper, likely from hops. Smooth texture. Light maltiness.

Uni Staff Club Tasting 29/01/08 Light amber golden, good head. Nice sweet citrus nose. Mandarin pith flavours a touch on the sweet side. nice beer

Looks lagered. Light amber, not much aroma to speak of really. a sweet chewy herby honey orange mouthful thats nice at first but nothing comes in afterwards to wash it away. a good ABV. It would not be good with less. In hindsight I may have had it too cold but i doubt i’d give it another chance. Many reviewers from down under seam to be getting stale tasting bottles. I didn’t have any problems like that.

Smells and tastes like a bog standard lager (in my book) and this sample is looking a little tired despite the Feb 2008 BB. Pours a treat ; big ice cream sunday head, fluffy and thick. Mainstream lager notes to smell and they lack appeal. Flavours are thin and tired; industrial beer malts and low bitterness. Really quite crappy.

Bottle. First drink of the night, a rare sober rate. Slightly cloudy gold colour, looks apetising but first beer and all that. Head went very quickly.Reasonable and drinkable but a bit wooly. Boring is way too harsh, a decent drink.