Adnams Innovation

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.

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)

Bottle that came in it’s own presentation box, numbered and with a signature by Jonathon Adnam, picked this beer up in Waitrose, Thame, Oxon and consumed 02-01-08 This beer poured as clear as a bell deep warm golden perhaps heading towards an orange glow,with a nice white head atop. The carbonation was actually quite high and made one a bit burpy after a few sips. The aroma was very good, quite floral and hoppy with some peach and/or apricots. On reflection there were very slight similarities to one of those highly aromatic Badger beers. A distinct honey sweetness with a really good hoppy bite, the hops have some staying power as well, again this beer reminds me of another maybe it’s a bit like a Hooky Haymaker on steroids, not sure? Whatever it’s really rather good, not excellent mind as there are a number of faults but a really nice drop and one which I would happily search out again. I’m not 100% sure that this should go down as an IPA but at the time it seemed possibly the most appropriate style to place it under, I’m happy to be corrected if others think differently.

Bottle, from Waitrose, Lincoln. Gold, thin but lasting white head and gentle condition. Pleasant grapefruity citrus sweetness, gentle grain and some chalkiness in the nose, quite full bodied in the mouth with citric hops and sweet grain and an underlying alcoholic note, lingering grapefruit citrus in the finish with some residual sweetness and a dry bitterness coating the mouth.

Bottle. Golden with a small head. Aromas are sweet biscuit malts with tropical fruit. Floral with peaches. Some herbal, metallic notes. Flavours are sweet sticky tropical fruit mix. Herbal and flowery with a gently prickly grapefruit bitterness finish. Quite like an IPA in style.