Adnams Broadside Ale

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19 of 19 Ciao users found the following review helpful

alexandjef

Member since 06/02/2012

Reviews written: 53

Adnams Broadside (Bottled) 23/02/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Great beer from one of the best breweries
Disadvantages Strong beer at 6.3%

Over the past 4-5 years I've gone from lager drinker and occasional real ale drinker, to real ale and occasional lager drinker. This is perfectly natural. As you age, your taste buds start to wear out, with the area at the front of your tongue going first. This is the area that senses sweet, with sour and bitter at the back and side going last - so as you get older you start to go off the sweet tasting stuff you liked when you were younger, and prefer stronger flavors. So my palette, whilst not that old, appreciates the deeper, richer more bitter flavors real ale has to offer. Also, I live in ... more
48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful

proxam

Member since 12/06/2002

Reviews written: 633

Two Pints of Bitter and a Packet of Crisps 01/02/2004

User recommends the product

Advantages Tasty and not hard to find
Disadvantages Not all that easy to find either

Arriving at the pub of a Friday evening is always something of a step into the unknown. Granted, the pub is where it's always been, the name hasn't changed and the decor's much the same. In fact, the Livingston Inn has been serving up pints of ale and hearty sustenance to thirsty wayfarers for over 250 years. No, what makes it a unique experience each time is scanning the beer-fonts to see what this week's guest ale will be. On Friday past, it was ADNAMS BROADSIDE which, by an uncanny coincidence, is the beer I'm reviewing today. Spooky, or what? Adnams, a family business, has been brewing ... more
38 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Newfloridian

Member since 13/11/2002

Reviews written: 328

One of the Suffolk broads 12/05/2003

User recommends the product

Advantages Strong, full flavoured, gloriously coloured English beer
Disadvantages Just a tad too bitter from regular drinking

I have drifted back time and again to the south east corner of England in the pursuit of good tasting brews. Just across the Thames estuary from one of my favourites (Shepherd Neame in Faversham) is Adnams of Southwold, Suffolk. I tried one of their (standard strength) bitters a few weeks ago. Most supermarkets these days keep at least a couple of their wares on the shelves so I have come back again for a try at a stronger offering. THE BREWERY I am quite partial to tribute and celebratory beers as it happens and this brew was launched by the brewery to commemorate the Battle of Sole Bay ** ... more
46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful

tange

THE ADNAMS FAMILY. 11/12/2002

User recommends the product

Advantages Fruity, full bodied and tasty...a bit like me! LOL.
Disadvantages Doesn't really mix with food because of the distinct taste.

I went out for lunch with my parents last week, after a shopping trip to the MacArthur Glen Retail Park. We stopped at a pub on the way home, at a place called Winsick (not too far away from Chesterfield), at the New Inn. I asked for a pint of Magnet, but they'd run out, so I had to choose quite quickly. I opted for a pint of Adnams Broadside ~ I had previously tried, enjoyed and subsequently reviewed their Bitter (extremely unsubtle hint alert!), so I decided to go for a brewer I recognised and liked. Adnams is based at the Sole Bay Brewery in Southwold, Suffolk. It's an old site with an ... more
13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful

jamesd

Beer delivered by horse draw cart. 08/01/2003

User recommends the product

Advantages Great taste and holds it's head well.
Disadvantages None with the exception of a hang over if you drink too many.

I first discovered Adnams ale when on a family holiday in Southwold, Suffolk. Southwold is a town where they have a working lighthouse in the middle of the town and the brewery still delivers the barrels of beer by house and cart to the local pubs. The next occasion that I came across Adnams, especially broadside, was about 2 years ago when at the end of a drunken pub crawl it was the only beer or brewery that I recognised. I think that that pint cost me £1.75, as it was happy hour, and normally it is between £1.95 to £2.20 for a pint. It is also available in bottles from the supermarket, at ... more
8 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful

ricky109

Not Adnams best, but high standards! 22/08/2007

User recommends the product

Advantages Aroma and Taste to match
Disadvantages Not the cheapest (bottled)

*** I was set a challenge in January 2006 by a friend, to drink 365 different beers in a year. I managed 503!! So i thoguth i would share some of my views. At the time I kept a record of all beers drunk, on which dates and how i rated them (out of 10) I still have the list. First of all let me explain before I did this I was very much a Lager drinker, Ales I didnt mind but i wasnt very fond of Bitters & Stouts. With this in mind; For Lager, anything above a 7 was good For Ale, anything above a 5 was good For Bitter & Stout anything above a 4 was good I'm happy to say my tastes are now much ... more
8 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Martinscholes

A Broadside against lager! 26/08/2005

User recommends the product

Advantages A good pint
Disadvantages Perhaps too good!

Adnams Broadside is a quintessential example of a good British real ale. It looks attractive in the glass, has a good head on it (but not a fluffy artificial one by any stretch of the imagination) and it has a good, clean scent to it. You can smell that it is made from good, honest hops and yeast! The flavour of Adnams Broadside is hard to describe. Strong? Yes, but there is an underlying tenderness, too. Sweet? Indeed it is somewhat sweet, but there's a good and decent undertone of the bitterness of the hops that holds everything else in equal balance. Adnams Broadside is like all Adnams ... more