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Spindrift Bottled Beer

By Fergus This entry was posted in Bottled Beer on 23/04/10

Spindrift in a Bottle

Spindrift is Adnams latest exciting development and is available for the first time in bottles this month. Originally launched three years ago as a keg product Mark Holmes explains the concept:

“Named Spindrift to reflect our coastal location , the lightness of the beer is said to evoke refreshing images of spray blown up from the surface of the sea. Presented in a striking blue 330ml bottle, the beer is made from a blend of East Anglian malted barley, Boadicea and First Gold hops and high grade malted wheat which is then chilled and filtered to allow the aromas and flavours within the beer to remain.

Spindrift is a top-fermented beer to deliver a creamy white head when poured. It should be served chilled with a thick, continental style head.

Spindrift is a fresh take on beer, a premium product with an up-to-date, modern appeal.”

The bottles are on sale in Cellar&Kitchen stores (singles and 12 pack) and online at adnams.co.uk. Please note that these blue bottles can be recycled in the green glass container found at most recycling points.

See the reviews from:

Hopzine: “There is no doubting this is an English beer”

The Ormskirk Baron: baron rating 4/5

Blog o’ Beer: “…it’s an incredibly elegant beer.”

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Sarah Howe

Hi George. I’m sorry you feel our Spindrift packaging is misleading. It is not our intention to over-charge by offering a smaller bottle and passing it off as a 500ml bottle. The reason we sell Spindrift in a 330ml bottle is to reflect that it’s style is meant to appeal to lager drinker’s and lager is often sold in 330ml bottles. I hope that you may feel tempted to try Spindrift in future despite it’s smaller measure.
Anonymous

I have been an Adnams drinker for many years now. I saw, for the first time, a bottle of “Spindrift” in my local supermarket and was going to give it a try. This was until I realised that the bottle was only 330ml instead of the normal 500ml. The price however was similar to a larger bottle. I think this is misleading and inflationary. It is increasing the price by “the back door”. Customers will believe that they are getting “full measure” as the bottle looks virtually identical to a 500ml.
Sarah Howe

Thanks very much for your kind review of our Spindrift. As for the free crate of beer…..
jay

Amazing. . . So glad i found this. I got bored of becks, bud, grolsh etc and often try blonde wheat beers. . . The spindrift is the lightest, cleanest, freshest most lovely beer with the most delicate hint of summer blossom. . Some blonde beers are way to flowery and bitter. . . Not this
This just hits the spot perfect every time. Well done adnams you have perfected lager beer. . . This is delicious. Thanks.
Love the adnams green carbon free also but its very hard to find.

Now when do i get my free crate
Wightman3376

Just enjoying a bottle bought from our local Sainsbury in Northallerton today, well what can I say, It’s really really good, I wish I’d bought a couple more! Drinking out of a Peroni glass though which just seems to work really well dunno why but it does. Congrats and thanks for a fine bottled brew!
Matt
Sarah Howe

Sorry but none of beers are available in the US.
Jwhlch

is spindrift sold in the United States…Texas specifically?
sarahhowe

Spindrift can be bought in bottles in Norwich from our Cellar & Kitchen Store just outside Chapelfields Shopping centre. It is also available for Home Delivery through Adnams.co.uk.
RP

Where is Norwich can i buy bottles of spindrift?

And is it sold anywhere in Bristol (draught or bottled)?

cheers
R. P. Blackwell

Spindrift is our favourite beer, particularly in bottle as it is a mite stronger than draught. Although we live well over a hundred miles from Suffolk, we always take a few cases back with us after our holidys, we normally purchase from your shop in Holt.
Sean

Dean

The following have Spindrift on draught in Norwich:

George and Dragon, Thurton, Norwich
Theatre Royal, Norwich
The Mulberry, Unthank Road, Norwich

Regards
Sean
Dean

I must second the request to put Spindrift glasses on sale.

Also, do you know of any pubs in the Norwich city area that would sell Spindrift on draught?
Sean

We have looked at providing some for sale but we have no firm date yet as to when they will be available.

Regards
Sean
John Ross

Will Adnams be selling the Spindrift glasses along with the Spindrift bottles?
Sean

Steve,

We are working on getting wider distribution for the Spindrift in Bottles. Local to you we have four outlets that take some of our range, though what they stock will vary from time to time so worth a call before visiting.

Also, The Waterfront and The Sailors Home in Kessingland both stock Spindrift.

Thanks
Sean
Steve

Are there any plans to sell Spindrift in supermarkets?
I picked a case up last time I was in Southwold, but it would save me a special trip if it was available in supermarkets in the Lowestoft area. Also are there any pubs in the Lowestoft area that sell spindrif on daught?
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Baz

This is a truly delicious beer, but I think made even more so with a thin wedge of lemon shoved in the top of the bottle (like lime in a mexican beer). I hope you don’t feel this is sacreledge Adnams, but it’s got that wheatbeer weight about it, and the citrus zing really finishes it off. A bunch of 8 friends all agreed.
http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/ Mondo

Oh look forward to this – loved Spindraft draught on our last Southwold, so will stack up with a few take aways when we next visit.
Fergus

Hi Malcolm

Sorry you didn’t enjoy the bottled Spindrift.
The two usual reasons why a bottled beer pours flat are; the crown has a defect so it’s not sealed properly or the glassware has an oily or detergent residue which will breakdown the head.
Of course the batch of beer maybe at fault and simply not form a good head, however this would happen to the whole batch and the samples I’ve just opened formed a perfectly good head.
If the beer is too cold this will also reduce the head that is formed but the beer should also taste fizzier which isn’t true in your case.

The amount of head that is formed is often dependent on how it is poured, in the pub the glass is kept at some distance from the tap when it is poured to generate the head. If you pour the beer gently down the side of the glass then the gas doesn’t break out and won’t form the head.

Let me know if all the bottles are the same.
Malcolm

Well I have to say I love draught Spindrift and like the design of the bottles. I bought a case and all I can say is it’s nothing like the draught, very flat and no frothy head. Very disappointing.
Colin

Great weekend; love the bottle, love the taste, fridge now stocked!
Fergus

Hi Clive

The 330ml size is really a marketing decision, I think aimed at it being an on-trade bottle as well as off-trade.

We haven’t used Tetra hops as you can only really make Tetra hops work in a 100% Tetra hop brewery or in a beer that uses dried yeast. Our yeast slurry contains some beer from the batch the yeast was cropped from, and so will contain some Iso alpha acid and even this small amount will result in the same light struck flavours.
You are right though that the blue bottle will offer the beer no more protection than green glass to the effects of the light. So we accept that lightstruck will be part of the flavour profile of this beer.
There are many flavours that we brewers often characterise as negative but are actually seen as positive by the people that drink the beer. To most people it is the smell of beer on a summers day while they are sitting in the garden, which of course it is.
I’m going to write a little blog about it as I think flavour and our individual perceptions of it are such a complicated subject.
clive

Any specific reasoning behind the choice of 330ml bottles instead of 500ml ? and though the blue bottles do look fantastic, does that mean youve had to add tetra hops to prevent light damage occurring to the beer.
http://adnams.co.uk Sean

Sorry no, we don’t have an exact delivery date yet but will update the web site as soon as we do.

Regards
Sean
Alister

Not available this weekend (17th-18th April) by any chance? Will be stopping in Southwold for a pint or two at the Nelson and will pop by the Cellar & Kitchen too.
http://theormskirkbaron.blogspot.com Baron Orm

Sounds interesting and good to see new bottles appearing in the Adnams lineup.
I love the look of this bottle, the dark blue will really make it stand out against the normal brown & green bottles.