Atom Splitter
City Of Cambridge Brewery Company Limited
- From:
- City Of Cambridge Brewery Company Limited
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.31 | pDev: 7.55%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 18, 2019
- Added:
- Jan 30, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sam-VW from England
3.64/5 rDev +10%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.64/5 rDev +10%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle poured into London Pride Pint Glass
A - Foamy head, orange/amber coloured. Great head retention leaving lines of sticky lacing
S - Sweet malts with a pronounced hop character for a English gold ale. Very inviting!
T - Sweet malt and oily hops, citrus and a touch of grapefruit and pine. Finishes off with a grassy bitterness. I must stress that the malt dominates this, but for the style the hop character is more than most.
M - medium carbonation and a slightly dry finish
Jul 02, 2014A - Foamy head, orange/amber coloured. Great head retention leaving lines of sticky lacing
S - Sweet malts with a pronounced hop character for a English gold ale. Very inviting!
T - Sweet malt and oily hops, citrus and a touch of grapefruit and pine. Finishes off with a grassy bitterness. I must stress that the malt dominates this, but for the style the hop character is more than most.
M - medium carbonation and a slightly dry finish
Reviewed by charlatan from Scotland
3.15/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Half pint at the Ayrshire real Ale Festival where it was rather confusingly billed as a mild. It certainyl didn't llok ike a mild , being a dark straw to light gold colour with big bubbly head and a slightly yeasty, banana nose. It has a sweet honey to sweetcorn flavour allied to soem rather understated hops and a slightly acidic tang. Decent but nothing special.
Oct 16, 2012
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
3/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Very suprised to find this bottle in a shop located in North East Lincolnshire (Cleethorpes to be exact).
The original review has been lost on the site somehow, so this is a quick check of my memory.
Average throughout, I was disappointed with it to be honest. I'll review it again if i ever come across it, honest!
Oct 28, 2009The original review has been lost on the site somehow, so this is a quick check of my memory.
Average throughout, I was disappointed with it to be honest. I'll review it again if i ever come across it, honest!
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.7/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.7/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Purchased at the Cambridge Wine Merchants in Cambridge City. The website mentions that the beer is named in honour of Ernest Rutherfords work on Splitting the Atom, and it's won the 1st prize in the Old Ales/Strong Milds category at the 25th Cambridge Beer Festival. The name has been changed to "Atomic Ale" now, but the strength remains 4.7%abv. Bottle-conditioned, 500ml brown bottle, BBE Mar. 07, served cool in a straight imperial-pint glass.
A: pours a clear, bright, pale-copperish colour, the off-white beer head comes foamy but not thick, slowly settling down with unclear traces of lacing; very gentle carbonation.
S: deeply salty-sweet fruitiness abounds, like star-fruits, yet also smacking of prune-ish touch of wood barrels; a lightly roasty edge of malts and some grated spices (e.g. nutmeg) prevail, before being wrapped up by a surprising strong and slightly stinky note of musk (as shown in some Northern Italian dry muscat wine and some cave-aged chesses)! Can't be sure what the style it is, like an old ale indeed, but a very intriguing interpretation. Hops are reduced to the minimal level.
T: lots of chewy spices, fragrant wood-chips of sandalwood, phenol, "tongue-plucking" dryish-bitter dried herbs, etc. overwhelme the whole palate; as the spicy-herbal edge softens, a flow of Dark Mild-like inky and roasty edge of dark malts is unleashed, leading towards a semi-dry, clean finish.
M&D: the texture turns smooth in the second half of tasting, but the mouthfeel is really exciting at first, lending stimulating impacts from mixture of herbs and spices as recognised above. It might be a cross b/w old ale and mild, and its woody+musk touch makes it a distinctive and rather exciting ale in its own right, albeit not everybody's cup of tea, this.
Jun 02, 2006A: pours a clear, bright, pale-copperish colour, the off-white beer head comes foamy but not thick, slowly settling down with unclear traces of lacing; very gentle carbonation.
S: deeply salty-sweet fruitiness abounds, like star-fruits, yet also smacking of prune-ish touch of wood barrels; a lightly roasty edge of malts and some grated spices (e.g. nutmeg) prevail, before being wrapped up by a surprising strong and slightly stinky note of musk (as shown in some Northern Italian dry muscat wine and some cave-aged chesses)! Can't be sure what the style it is, like an old ale indeed, but a very intriguing interpretation. Hops are reduced to the minimal level.
T: lots of chewy spices, fragrant wood-chips of sandalwood, phenol, "tongue-plucking" dryish-bitter dried herbs, etc. overwhelme the whole palate; as the spicy-herbal edge softens, a flow of Dark Mild-like inky and roasty edge of dark malts is unleashed, leading towards a semi-dry, clean finish.
M&D: the texture turns smooth in the second half of tasting, but the mouthfeel is really exciting at first, lending stimulating impacts from mixture of herbs and spices as recognised above. It might be a cross b/w old ale and mild, and its woody+musk touch makes it a distinctive and rather exciting ale in its own right, albeit not everybody's cup of tea, this.
Reviewed by ToneControl from England
3.35/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A Bottle conditioned beer, commemorating Lord Rutherford.
The bottle says "an amber coloured beer bursting with "First Gold" hoppiness". To me, the malt was more dominant.
Quite a pleasant beer, although perhaps it is too heavy to drink several in succession.
Jan 30, 2004The bottle says "an amber coloured beer bursting with "First Gold" hoppiness". To me, the malt was more dominant.
Quite a pleasant beer, although perhaps it is too heavy to drink several in succession.
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