{"id":620,"date":"2013-03-14T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/?p=620"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:42:02","slug":"adnams-sole-bay-celebratory-ale-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Adnam’s Sole Bay Celebratory Ale – 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was my Dad’s birthday a few days ago. He has always liked Adnam’s<\/a> Broadside and he has always been partial to a whisky. So for his birthday I decided to get him a bottle of Spirit of Broadside<\/a>, a 43% bottle of distilled Broadside. Anyway, while that was on order I decided I’d make the most of the postage costs and buy myself some beer while I was at it. I looked through the whole Adnam’s website and a few things caught my eye, however there was only one thing out of them that you could buy as a single bottle (I’m not going to get an entire 12 pack of a beer that I don’t even know that I’d like!).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As you could probably tell from the title the beer that I did end up getting was Sole Bay<\/a>. A beer which was first brewed to celebrate 350 years of brewing. It turns up in it’s own tin which is all snazzy and what-not. The whole thing is a very stylish affair with dates on a timeline printed on the tin and on the bottle, which is both corked and caged (obviously I’m not suggesting it might be a crown cap and caged, that would be silly).<\/p>\n

OK, what you actually want to know: It pours a mid amber sort of colour with a decent amount of carbonation and an off white head. I can’t say that I got a huge amount off the nose, a slight\u00a0biscuit-y\u00a0note, nothing huge. The taste was very sweet, a little banana but mostly a malty sweetness. In the shpeal on the website it said about adding lavender into the end of the fermentation, not all that\u00a0noticeable\u00a0either. There was something else in the mix which I couldn’t quite put my finger on which reminded me of ginger beer, and don’t think ginger, it wasn’t that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have to say, although there was nothing wrong with per se,\u00a0I was hoping for something a bit more bold from this beer. Very enjoyable, although I don’t know if it quite justifies the price for me.<\/p>\n

Overall Rating: 7 \/ 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Available at www.adnams.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was my Dad’s birthday a few days ago. He has always liked Adnam’s Broadside and he has always been partial to a whisky. So for his birthday I decided to get him a bottle of Spirit of Broadside, a 43% bottle of distilled Broadside. Anyway, while that was on order I decided I’d make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booze","travel-monster-post","no-post-thumbnail","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}