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Adnams Wild Hop Amber Beer

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Brewed by Adnams
Style: Amber Ale
Southwold, England

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RATINGS: 36   MEAN: 3.2/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.17   SEASONAL: Special   EST. CALORIES: 144   ABV: 4.8%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Wild Hop Amber Beer is brewed with Pale Ale, Malted Wheat and Acidified Malts and hopped with locally gathered Wild and Garden hops including Fuggles, Goldings, Bramling Cross and Sovereign. This exciting new beer is brewed with fresh (green) hops, which produce fantastic clean, fresh, grassy, pine and citrus flavours and aromas, capturing all the excitement of the year’s hop harvest. To add complexity we have used some Saison yeast in addition to our ‘house’ Adnams yeast which adds a peppery spiciness. What’s the story? In September we asked the public to ‘Hop to it‘ as we appealed for donations of wild and garden hops, urging beer lovers to report sightings of them growing to help create this new beer. Needless to say, the public didn’t let us down and it wasn’t long until hops were pouring into the brewery from local gardens and wild spaces. The brewery team worked tirelessly to prepare all the wild hops for the brew day and the resultant beer is unique to the 2014 harvest.


2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
gunnfryd (13005) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - SEP 16, 2015
John Bull, Aalborg 010415. Deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma is butterscotsch, malt, hop, citrus. Flavour is butterscotsch, malt, hop, pine, citrus, grass, flower. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
ogivlado (6473) - Zagreb, CROATIA - AUG 26, 2015
Bottled 330ml. -from Pivoljub Ljubljana. Darker golden coloured, small white to off-white head, grassy nose. Sweetish malty, caramel, grassy hoppy, slight spicy and weak fruity with dry and bitter rather short finish. Not bad.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Marduk (4239) - Reval, ESTONIA - AUG 23, 2015
330ml bottle. Slightly hazy amber color. Small size, bubbly white head, struggles to hold. Perfume, orange peel, citrus, esters, touch of yeast in aroma. Sweetish, husky, spicy citrusy hops, grainy taste. Sweet grains and mellow citrusy hops in aftertaste. Very mellow and tender. Nice one.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
alex_leit (789) - Minsk, BELARUS - AUG 19, 2015
Bottle. Yellowish amber in color, almost no foam. Aroma: malt, caramel, fruits, lightest citrus, hints of hops. Taste: good malts, fruits, light acidity. Need more hops.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
nordic (329) - Tartu, ESTONIA - AUG 5, 2015
Bottle 0,33. Aroma: light fruity, bready, vegetables. Taste: plain, Easy to drink, nothing to remember. But feels like good beer.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
FatPhil (11547) - Tallinn, ESTONIA - AUG 3, 2015
330 ml bottle (Ancho, Tallinn)
Deepish orange, cleear. Crisp and refreshing in aroma and taste. Lots of aroma hops, tangy and spicy. Massively drinkable and full flavoured - literally chugged most of it before even saying/typing a word. Pleasantly malty body, gently sweet, but lots of zingy piney and spicy hops. Palate a little light. Finish a bit dusty. Ordered another, I enjoyed it so much.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
JorgeLee (1482) - Greater London, ENGLAND - JUL 14, 2015
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Amber colour, surprisingly. Hmm it’s decent this, some nice varied hop character, veering from fruity to earthy, interacting with sweetish malts. Slightly restrained but pleasant. A pint or three would have been nicer than a small bottle, which is inappropriate for this style of beer.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
erickok (4353) - Leuven, BELGIUM - JUL 14, 2015
Amber appearance, medium head. Biscuit malts, amber malts, mellow grassy hop. Some herbal notes. Mellow bitterness, bit simple in taste to be honest. Rough ending. Wild? Well at least it is different, despite the taste being simpler than I expected for the brewer and beer type. (33cl bottle from Saveur Bière)

3.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Fin (8574) - Merton, Oxfordshire, England, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND - JUN 25, 2015
UPDATED: JUN 27, 2015 Bottle from Claire (cheers), consumed at home Thursday 25th June 2015 Mid amber with a white head which is a little sticky. Almost a light funkiness on the nose (only slight). This is a pleasant beer, the wild hops provide an interesting alternative take on what I was otherwise expecting, a light fruity bite, malty edge, good balance, I rather like it. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov14 3.4

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
yngwie (15630) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - APR 1, 2015
On tap at John Bull, Aalborg. A clear, golden beer with a minimal sized white head. The aroma is quite malty, with a light citrus touch. Bread, resin, flowers, some citrus and grass. It’s medium bodied, dry and with a light carbonation. There’s a decent bitterness in the flavor, lasting for a while, with grass, flowers, pine cone notes and some bread notes. An easy drinkable beer, but too ordinary. 150401


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