St Austells: Admirals Ale (5%)
by DanCave on Sep.07, 2009, under Beer Reviews, St Austell's
Winter is Coming, What Are You Drinking?
With the winter coming some good darker ales are in order! Here is safe and tasty bet, St Austell’sAdmirals Ale.
The last time I drank one of these I was on BBC Radio Tees talking about homebrew and the beer blog. Lisa McComick liked the St Austells ale describing it as dark chocolatey and complicated.
St Austells Admirals Ale
According to bottle:
Brewed in cornwall, to celebrate the 200th anaversery of nelsons victory at trafalgar in 1805. It was at the St Austells blue anchor Inn that the kings messenger carrying news of the battle, first stopped for refresehment on his long journey from cornwall to london.
Admiral ale glugs out of the bottle dark brown with a slightly off white head.
It smells sugary and burnt, deep and dark. I apologise I have a bit of a cold and a blocked nose, so my nose might be tricks on me.
Admirals ale has a light mouth feel, its not thick and viscous like I thought it would be.
It tastes like choclotae and charcoal, malted oats and brown ale. The head lasts about as long as an ice cream at a vindiloo chuging contest and disapears leaving no trace. Pour all the yeast in your glass if you like the bitter yeast tastes.
Apparently Admirals ale is made by using local grains especially malted using a unqiue kilining process for intense flavors. The result is the usual complex deep and intense falvors, non of which are overpowering. St austell balance the flavors with the skill of a old circus tight rope walker from a circus.
In the comming winter months I can imagine I will be having a few more of these.
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September 9th, 2009 on 6:59 pm
Ed and I both sampled this one a while back and w both thoroughly enjoyed it (although we disagreed slightly on the flavour profile…)
A very nice drop indeed!
September 25th, 2009 on 6:22 am
Cheers, I think its a bit of a safe bet. Because it is so complicated I think there is room to pick out flavors you like over the others in the beer.