Adnams Innovation

Brewed by Adnams
Style: English Strong Ale
Southwold, England

Clear deep golden beer with a lasting white head, aroma is hoppy and the taste is sweet-ish with a hop finish.

Bottle 0,5l. Golden colored. An OK fluffy head that lasted. Strong aroma of hops & lemon. Extremely fruity flavor - almost like perfume. A fruity bitterness evolving. Refreshing.

Appearance: Light clear golden, little head. More when warmer. Aroma: Floral and some hops. Quite fruity. Apricot. Taste: Quite fruity and flowery. Some malt and hops. Nice. Info: 500ml bottle, 5/2-2008

500ml bottle picked up at a shop in Maldon (Essex, UK) and enjoyed at a summer party in Tromsø. Amber body colour with a creamy, white head. The coolness of fruit and flowers dominate the aroma while the flavour has got hints of hop resin, blood oranges and grapefruits on a malty background. Mild, but lingering hop bitterness to the ending. Well bodied, cool mouthfeel and filled with summer feelings (14.06.2008).

Bottle at home ... amber ... sweet slightly cidery slitly musky hop nose ... candy sweetness... really juicy tartness ... little sry in linger ... lots of citrus flavours ... and really quite tasty... The one thing i didnt like was it made a big fuss about how enviromental there brewery was and that they use 34% less glass in the bottle... and then they put it in an unneeded cardboard box just so they can charge more.

Bottle, from Waitrose in Witney. Pale copper, small white head that settles quickly but leaves a bit of lace. Unusual hop profile. Melon musk sweetness, mixed with a very pungent patch of nettles, and around the edges some candy sweetness and blackberries. Very light palate, dry-leaning, fine carbonation. Fine textured melon hop flavor with a subtle pith finish. My first sips of this--not a huge fan. But it kind of won me over, and I actually ended up digging this quite a bit.

This is a beer that looks good. Stylish box and bottle, environmentally friendly or not it looks damn good. The Bugatti Veyron is another example. The colour that exudes from the bottle is something else. Full golden, refractive and glowing - a lively colour that makes your stomach settle and your heart lift. Aromas of floral, citrus, peachy hops and a glimpse into that grain that provides Adnams classic malt base, firm and assertive - a platform for all the rest of each beers flavours. And so it is, bursts of hops and malt, citrus flavours, earthy flavours and a hint of warmth; a slight sweetness of honeyed toast leaves for a dry, bitter end, the finish is poised and well timed, yet could last a little longer to be right up there with the few beers of noteworthy comparison. Serve in a riedel pilsner glass to garner even more sense of occasion at about 8/9 degrees. Price tag justified, it seems we are starting to have good bottled beers worth paying money for popping up all over the UK at the moment. Some really should be left in cask though - just as others shouldn’t be put into one. And it’s damn good with belly pork.

I like this. I bought a bottle of this in Tesco. I have been told that you can buy it in a special card box. Mine was just a regular very simple bottle. The beer is very Adnams and I think better than Adnames "The Bitter" very fresh summer drink and I would buy this again. (will do the next time I can get to Tesco)