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Warming, Malty & Fruity.

Aroma

Ripe Fruit

Taste

Malty, Mature, Bitter/Sweet

Serving suggestions

English Cheeses, Sunday Roasts and many comfort foods.

  • 94 Reviews

    Abbot Ale

    £2.20

    5% Abv

    500ml Bottle

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    Brewed longer to a unique recipe using pale, amber and crystal malts, making it a full flavoured, smooth and mature beer.

    Awarded gold in the Premium Bitters category and silver in the Supreme Champion category at the Beer of Britain Awards 2023!

    Perfect to sip and savour, it's time to relax with an Abbot.

    Brewed longer to a unique recipe using pale, amber and crystal malts, making it a full flavoured,... Read More

    Brewed longer to a unique recipe using pale, amber and crystal malts, making it a full flavoured, smooth and mature beer.

    Awarded gold in the Premium Bitters category and silver in the Supreme Champion category at the Beer of Britain Awards 2023!

    Perfect to sip and savour, it's time to relax with an Abbot.

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    Aroma:  Ripe Fruit

    Taste:  Malty, Mature, Bitter/Sweet

    Malt:  Pale, Crystal, Amber

    Hops:  Admiral, Pilgrim, First Gold, Fuggle

    Perfect with: the Great British classic that is the Sunday Roast as well as good quality sausages and ribs. Not in the mood for meat? Try it with some English cheeses for a taste sensation.

    Additional Notes:  Warming, Malty and Fruity. Pale and amber malts contribute to a mouth filling and satisfying sweet and biscuity maltiness. A blend of English hops including First Gold give a base note of herbal hop and Fuggles a late hop contributes fragrant fruity, floral and spicy notes. Fermented slowly to give just enough fruity esters and a mature rich fruit cake finish, Abbot Ale provides a complex, satisfying and warming experience.

    Rich and malty with a smooth and mature taste, it can only be our very own Abbot, and as you can tell, he’s had quite the makeover! He might have a new change of robes, but rest assured, we haven’t altered the recipe one jot. Brewed for longer, with fruit cake character and superb hop balance, it’s the same beer we know and love.

    So if you're an Abbot drinker you will start to see cans and bottles with the new design dropping into your orders towards the end of September 2021. Once they arrive it's time to sit back, reflect and unwind, sip and savour, and most importantly; relax with an Abbot.

    Abbot Ale Bottle new design 2021

    Contains Malted Barley

    Energy kCal/ 100mls 36.0
    Energy kJoule/ 100mls 149.2
    Carbo- hydrate g/ 100mls 3.6
    of which sugars g/ 100mls 0.2
    Protein g/ 100mls 0.4
    Fibre g/ 100mls 0.2
    Fat g/ 100mls <0.1
    of which saturates g/ 100mls <0.1
    Sodium (as NaCl) mg/ 100mls 1.0
    Sucrose g/ 100mls <0.1

    In Bury St. Edmunds - the home of Abbot Ale - brewing can be traced back 1,000 years. In fact, the Domesday Book records “cerevisiari” or ‘ale brewers’ who served the Abbot in the town’s Great Abbey. 

    Inheriting their fascinating experience, our brewing process has hardly changed over hundreds of years. It takes seven days to craft the perfect pint of Abbot Ale. Brewed for longer, the ale has masses of fruit character, malty richness and a superb hop balance. 

    So where does the name come from? Well, in 1951 we ran a competition to name a brand new beer we were brewing and offered a prize of £20 (a lot back then!) to anyone who could come up with our new brew's moniker. A local publican submitted the name of 'Abbot Ale', in keeping with the town's tradition and just like that our world famous beer was born! 

    Abbot Ale

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    IL
    03/26/2024
    Ian L.
    United Kingdom United Kingdom

    Abbot Ale

    Very tasty and smooth full bodied malty beer always been a favourite in our family

    MD
    03/14/2024
    Mr. David Miller
    United Kingdom United Kingdom

    Abbot Ale is Divine - I Worship Regularly

    For my palate this evokes solid memories of room temperature cask ales which is bitter and refreshing on a summer’s day, and warm and malty on a winter evening. It my clear favourite.

    DF
    03/07/2024
    David F.
    United Kingdom United Kingdom

    One of my favourite ales...

    ... delivered to my door, what's not to like?

    JS
    01/23/2024
    John S.
    United Kingdom United Kingdom

    Abbot's ale

    Great drink easy to place an order arrived quick very reasonable price win win thanks

    CB
    12/28/2023
    Christine B.
    United Kingdom United Kingdom

    Abbots ale

    My partner will jot drink anything other than abbots ale that comes in bottles