White Admiral
Old Chimneys Brewery

This is more-or-less the base beer that goes into Red Admiral. However, it is rarely brewed or available. I was lucky to get this on a visit to the brewery and it is bottle number 117 of only 180. Pours a brownish brassy copper with small head that surprisingly left little lace. Nose is caramel malts and brown bread with really earthy hops for a fairly classic English barleywine smell. Taste isn't as sweet as I expected, or perhaps the earthy character of the hops offsets the sweetness. Slightly herbal and certainly malty, but malty in flavor rather than sweetness. Nice mouthfeel that isn't too soft and certainly not cloying. Overall, very good and more English character than you normally get even from an English barleywine.