Adnams Tally-Ho is a barley wine styled beer that has been brewed at Adnams since 1880. Its dark mahogany red is reflected in its richness and warming taste. Flavours of sweet raisins, dark chocolate and toasted bread combine to create a smooth, mouthfeel with a chewy caramel sugariness. Traditionally a winter warmer, Adnams Tally-Ho can be kept and matured in bottle like a fine wine to be enjoyed all year round. Watch out though, Adnams Tally-Ho has a kick like a drayman’s horse!
The Adnams Brewery was bought back in 1872 by George and Ernest Adams, when the Brewery was known as The Sole Bay Brewery. Since the company was incorporated in 1890, it has remained one of the UK’s most successful independent breweries. Adnams produces a range of great beers along with gin, vodka and whiskey through their Copper House Distillery.
L Kav –
This was thinner in body that I was expecting of a beer of this ABV. It felt light with a stickiness left afterwards on the tongue. It certainly didn’t feel its boozy abv of 7%
JanO –
Classic strong well balanced winter brew, shame we don’t see it in cask that much.
Chris Meechan –
A fairly typical English barleywine. Dark and sweet with a warming alcohol finish. Slightly thin for a barleywine.
JEFFREY HOEY –
First order and am extremely pleased with the taste and quality of Tally Ho
and amazed at the speed of delivery.Will be ordering again soon.
Sam Dutton –
Easy drinking, if a little ‘thin’ as someone else said.
I think the high ABV Fuller’s beers set the standard here, and this isn’t quite at that level for flavour and finish.
Kevie –
This is lovely: a boozy note combined with fruity notes (mostly grapes) with a sweet and malty flavour. Very nice, something different from the usual barley wine.
Matthew W –
Dark brown with a slight ruby light, small but consistent off-white top. Malty aroma with chocolate, biscuit. raisins, toffee, peanuts, light metalic hint. The last note isn’t discernible in the taste but the rest are to make a nice malt complex with fruity middle and a herbal punchy bitterness in the finish. Quite warming.
It tastes a bit like 1/3 barley wine 2/3 strong ale but its very balanced and tasty despite not being a full on version of the style. I cant decide whether I prefer this or Broadside.
TG –
good if predictable flavours, boozy but drinkable
FoggyMountainMan –
Xmas cake in a bottle, raisins, figs but in no way “syrupy” as one might expect.
Keith Bonser –
Very nice but not a typical barley wine flavour more like a light brown ale
Alan Sinclair –
Dark and very malty.
Not much of a head to it but a decent looking ale although it doesn’t really taste like a barley wine and is more of a strong ale.
I couldn’t drink too many of these but OK for the last drink of the day.