Broadside 4.7% abv
Adnams Broadside
Tasting notes
Brewed with Pale Ale malt and First Gold hops, Broadside is a dark ruby red beer rich in fruitcake aromas, almonds and conserved fruit.
What’s the story?
Brewed to commemorate the fierce Battle of Sole Bay fought against the Dutch Republic in 1672 off the Southwold coast, it has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. Adnams Broadside is a fine heart-warming English beer, rich in flavours of malt and hops and enjoying a special place in our hearts.
Adnams Broadside mini-cask
(1.3 units/half pint)
You can no also buy Adnams Broadside in mini-casks.
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Multi award winning, including ‘Best Strong Bitter’ in the country, and awarded a gold medal at the Great British Beer Festival
Adnams Broadside in bottles
Adnams Broadside in bottles
At 6.3% abv, bottled Broadside ‘Strong Original’ is our best selling bottled beer. Dark ruby red, rich in fruitcake aromas, almonds and conserved fruit, it is a beer to savour.
The beer in cask is a different recipe to the bottle version and is the original Broadside, as it says on the bottle, which we started brewing in 1972.
During the early eighties the bottle market in the UK was in decline but cask beer was seeing resurgence. Everyone liked the beer and the name and wanted to keep it going in some form but at 6.3% abv it wasn’t suitable as a cask beer. So we formulated a new recipe and called it Broadside.
Obviously the bottle beer market recovered and has grown strongly, at the same time the cask market grew and we have ended up with two successful beers with the same name but with different recipes. They do have similar tastes, both malty and fruity cake flavours, but bottled Broadside has them in abundance.
Bottled Broadside has won numerous awards over the years including a Gold medal at the 2009 International Beer Challenge.
(3.2 units per bottle)
Weighing less than 300g, our new, award-winning 500ml bottles are one of the lightest in the bottled beer category. Better still, they’re 100% recyclable.
Adnams Broadside is available in bottles and 5-Litre mini-casks to buy online.
5 Comments
We currently put on all the mandatory information that we are required to plus a lot of other voluntary information regarding the units, recommended intake etc. There is only a limited space so we try and judge what the majority of people want and need on the back label. This changes over time as new guidelines, recommendations and legislation comes in. Currently most alcoholic drinks are exempt form standard food ingredient labelling. This I presume has been because the ingredients used in the brewing process are not actually what ends up in the bottle. We use malted barley, water hops and yeast in the brewing process but we extract the sugar from the barley which the yeast then turns into alcohol, Carbon Dioxide and other flavours, most of the barley never makes it into the finished product and neither does the yeast. Because of this there has never been consensus on how to report the ingredients, this is changing and legislation should come in over the next few years that stipulates how this is recorded within the EU.
Thanks
Why is there no nutritional information, in standard food and drink industry format, on your products??
Interesting. Your tasting notes confirm my thoughts about bottled and cask Broadside. I much prefer the flavour of bottled Broadside, which is handy as l drink it at home. My brother and l visited Southwold several years ago and sampled a pint of Broadside in one of the pubs, l did not enjoy the taste from the cask as much as l do from the bottle.
Sorry to say that the new labelling on the bottles is not a patch on the outgoing ones, still at least the contents are the same.
Krister,
At the moment we had not planned to list Gunhill in Systembologet but have chosen to present Innovation and Tally Ho due to their profile and abv. However, we will pass on the request to Spendrups.
Regards
Sean
Do you have any plans to sell Gunhill in Sweden (Systembolaget)?
Best regards Krister
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