Greene King Abbot Ale (Cask)

Cask: Regular.

Ingredients: Pale, Crystal and Amber malts; First Gold, Challenger and Fuggles hops - late-hopped with Fuggles.

First brewed in the 1950s.

360 reviews

Bury St. Edmunds, England

Community reviews

3.4 Half pint at The Reservoir, Earlswood, Solihull. Clear amber with nice consistent top. Its malty, very smooth with a nice nuttiness to it, and a hint of fruity hop. Good balance between sweet and bitter. Simple but effective.

3.6 Classic landmark Ale

3.1 Pint on cask at the Hain Line JDW. I can't believe I've not ticked this. Medium creamy white head clear light Amber pour. Light bitterness.

3.6 Better than a few years ago. It used to have an overbearing artificial hop extract flavour. No longer. A smoother ale with a good balance of malt and hop. A traditional English ale the way it should be. Good stuff.

2.7 Quaffed this plenty of time in spoons when it was the only ale of any substance. Now enjoying for 99p pre lockdown 2. Pretty rough and only marginally better than the standard greene king ipa. Malty, sweet. Worth 99p for sure.

3.3 {August 2020} A British classic, looks like an old fashioned British beer and by Jove tastes like one! Pours a deep, clear amber, approaching brown colour, with a frothy white head. The aroma sits in between fruity and malty, with a certain sweetness to it, and that sensation carries on into the flavour, with a nice amount of bitterness in the finish to round it off. A relatively heavy beer, with a creamy mouthfeel and a nice blend of flavours

3.2 Pours a clear amber colour with a small mostly lasting creamy off-white head. Aroma is malty, some caramel and fruity. A moderately sweet taste, caramel, malts and fruity with a long hop bitter finish.

3.3 Pours an amber colour ale with a white frothy head Notes of sweet malty caramel and orange fruit Cask

4.5 Buonissima, fruttata e luppolosa

3.1 Amber, clean, white beerhead, with frothy, thin foam. Ok retention. Clear toffee, caramel malt flavors, also having honey, biscuit and fruity cake hints (may from hops). Light sweetness, soft carbonation, low bitterness, smooth touch. Slightly alcoholic, Not bad.

2.5 Cask at The Moon Under Water (JDW), Watford on 20/11/2005. Drank quite a bit of this back in the day (and when I worked in a GK pub). It wasn’t amazing, but it was solid and had an ok depth of flavour. As time went by, I became convinced it was the same beer as GK IPA, just with extra Brewing sugar added in. It either got progressively worse, or I got progressively more distinguishing.

3.1 It pours a dark amber hue with a thick, dense, head that stays put. The nose is of honey and toffee. The taste is fairly sweet upfront followed by a lingering bitterness. This is a very typical British ale. It could be easily identified as a UK beer in a blind tasting, in my opinion.

3.7 Аромат немного горький, по большей части хмелевой по английски. Немного пряный и травянистый. Цвет красивый, очень плавно переходит из белового кремового в темно коричневый. Вкус начинается очень кремово-сливочный от пенки. Далее совсем легкая копченость, даже дымка от солода. Неплохая и приятная горчинка на протяжение всей пробы. Послевкусие суховатое, и снова кремовое, хмелевое. В целом порадовало.

5.0 The best ale I've ever tasted

3.7 Wonderful malty hoppy beer with deceptive strength My current cask ale of choice, beating all these newcomers hands down Rooted in history and brewed by a fine Suffolk brewer. Not a session ale, more for savouring. Mind, I cannot stop at one. Hope it always stays true to its recipe.

2.9 Creamy ale, slightly above avg

2.7 Van tap bij The Horse & Groom in Londen. Banaan, malten, toffee, zoet, licht weeïg, wat droog. (8-2-2019).

3.1 Cask: Poured an amber with a beige head. Aroma is light fruit and malts. Taste is similar with fruit and malts.

2.7 Cask @Le Bon Bock (Rome). Ambrata intensa, abbastanza limpida, schiuma bianco-sporca media. Al naso note fruttate, di mela grattuggiata, malto, leggero floreale, diacetile. In bocca è dolce con chiusura amara inconsistente. Corpo leggero, carbonazione soft. Decisamente no.

3.2 Cask @Windmill (JDW), Aeropuerto 02/12/2018 Color ambarino corona de espuma blanca, aromas maltosos, caramelo cuerpo ligero.

3.1 Pint from cask at The Outlook (Reading). Sweet, malty and warm. Bitter and bready finish

4.6 Best at swan

3.1 V metropolitan bare. Zemitosladova vona. Chut velmi podobna na konci do horka. Farba pekna jantarova.

2.5 On Cask at The Rake Hall, Little Stanney. Perfectly okay pint. Thick, creamy head, Ruby/amber body. Aroma of warm malt fruits. Rather fruity taste. Although overall quite a muddled palette. Decent if nothing else on offer from local brewers.

3.2 Cask Pours hazy amber with off-white head. Fresh, yeasty aroma. Taste is med hoppy, stays on the ground. Some caramel. Okay.

2.8 More mediocrity from Greene King. Has a slightly hoppy, slightly fruity, slightly caramel taste. Finish is mildly bitter with some bready notes. Palate is a bit thin and is ultimately unsatisfying.

3.6 Great Ale, drinkable, ready available most spoons in Manchester. Go to pint.

2.5 Cask. Pours a pale orange gold with a white head. Aroma: biscuity malt, pine, nettles, grain notes. Taste: biscuity malt, grain, pine, nettles, very mild orange peel flavours. Mild to moderate bitterness. Watery consistency. This is pretty average.

3.3 Half at Velvet Coaster. Dark amber with creamy head. Sweet, malty aroma. Taste is also malty, brown bread, caramel. Cask makes this smooth and full.

4.3 Absolutely wonderful beer. I'm surprised at some of the other reviews about this beer on this website. Abbot Ale is an amazingly full bodied fruity beer, with a nice aroma, a lovely creamy head out of cask, and a controlled light bitterness and fruity aftertaste. It's a mainstay beer for me.