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Hey there, have you ever had a sticky toffee pudding? I should clarify; I mean the dessert. We’ll get into Wells Brewery’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale in a bit. Sticky toffee pudding is kind of like plum pudding in texture, sort of more like a cake you see, than a pudding. It’s made with dates and sugar and vanilla and flour and smothered with toffee sauce.
It’s that toffee sauce that I got the most of in Wells Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale. I didn’t get any dates mind you. Anyway, this beer seems all the rage these days and lots of people are drinking it and talking about it. It’s from the same folks that brought us that other wonderful dessert beer, Wells Banana Bread Beer and Young’s Luxury Double Chocolate Stout.
Wells says about Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale on their website:
“This is very much a beer first and a dessert second, it is brewed with our trusted pale ale malt and a secret blend of complex sugars. The initial sweetness of Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale is tempered by a gentle bitterness from two of England’s most traditional hop varieties- Fuggles and Goldings. This delivers the sweet taste of caramel and toffee along with a smooth and robust aftertaste”
Wells Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale was introduced in December of 2013. It has an alcohol content of 5% by volume. My bottle is marked as best by 12/11/2014 on the bottle neck. I paid $2.29 for an 11.2 ounce bottle here in the Atlanta area.
Wells Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale pours to a deep brownish color with a thick creamy head formation and a simply sinful nose of toffee and nuts. Taking a sip, the beer really delivers that delicious toffee, burnt caramel flavor that the nose promised. There's a gentle flintiness here as well and a firm sweetness, and just a touch of diacetyl. The finish is balanced with perhaps a gentle grassy English hop aroma and bitterness, not what you'd expect in a pudding but definitely what you want in a beer. Sticky Toffee Pudding finishes without any cloying sweetness.
I think given the "sticky" portion of the name I was expecting a bit more body (and I know it’s part of the puddings name, and what pudding isn't sticky, but there you go). Still, this one lives up to the name overall and makes for a very satisfying beer, indeed. Yes, I would buy this one again.
And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.
*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.
(B)=Bottled
(D)=Draft
