Brewery: Adnams [Adnams Spindrift – a blonde ale designed to appeal to lager drinkers and a recent addition to the Adnams bottled beer range – is that it’s an incredibly elegant beer.

Elegant packaging: bottle-glass a gorgeous shade of deep ocean blue with silver lettering and the artful curl of a breaking wave on the neck. Elegant appearance: a clear copper body with a pure white head and a slight effervescence; just enough to add sparkle, not enough to cross the line into fizz. Elegant aroma: fresh, green hops, bursting out of the bottle. Elegant flavour: crisp, hoppy and refreshing, with a bite full of lemon zest, apple peel, peach, green herbs and fresh grass and very well-balanced by a lingering, dry-biscuit finish (all-butter shortbread, of course). Even the ABV is an elegant 5%; just strong enough to make it interesting, not too strong that you couldn’t down a few 330ml bottles of an evening without feeling too much the worse for wear.

All in all: Adnams Spindrift is a rather lovely drop of pure Spring in a glass. All that needs to happen now is for it to appear on the shelves at my local supermarket and I’ll be a very happy chap.

Thank you very much indeed to Sean at Adnams for sending this one along!