Adnams
Adnams brews in Southwold on the Suffolk coast, on a site where brewing is recorded as far back as 1345. George and Ernest Adnams bought the Sole Bay Brewery in 1872; the company that followed is run today as a public limited company. The beers are fermented with a dual-strain house yeast that the brewery has cultivated itself since the 1940s. Cask bitters and strong ales sit beside the Ghost Ship family of pale ales, keg lagers and a 0.5% pale ale from which the alcohol is removed after a full fermentation. A distillery, pubs, hotels and shops belong to the same business.
Beers by Adnams
33 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Adnams brew a broad range across 10 style families.
Across these 33 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Broadside
Their beers place in the Top 24% of the catalogue on average, across 2 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Adnams
Adnams brews in Southwold on the Suffolk coast, on a site where brewing is recorded as far back as 1345. George and Ernest Adnams bought the Sole Bay Brewery in 1872; the company that followed is run today as a public limited company. The beers are fermented with a dual-strain house yeast that the brewery has cultivated itself since the 1940s. Cask bitters and strong ales sit beside the Ghost Ship family of pale ales, keg lagers and a 0.5% pale ale from which the alcohol is removed after a full fermentation. A distillery, pubs, hotels and shops belong to the same business.
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