Alaskan ESB

Formerly brewed at Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in English pint

Good, dense, nearly pink coloured head; red-chestnut colour, clear. Very perfumey, near almondy nose, malts abundant, cherry stones. Surprisingly bitter beer, hoppy taste, with just enough malt backing to feed it. Again something almondy retronasal, warming up. Very creamy, smooth MF. Medium bodied. Aftertaste yields dry hops. Best about it is its balance. It even can be refreshing, served cool.

From a short 12oz. brown bottle with a best before date on the lower right hand side of the front label, 04/22/06. Made a decent appearance, poured a clear bright amber with a foamy beige head that settled into a thin lacing, moderate carbonation overall. Sweet toasted, fruity malt nose with a fresh, leafy hoppiness. A crisp, textured, smooth medium bodied feel, very good drinkability. Buttery, toasted grainy and caramel malty taste upfront, a nice rolling citric hoppiness in the middle, crisp in it’s bitterness and a sweet toasted malty finish with a little citric bitterness lingering in the palate. A balanced and tasty ESB, if you like the style, I would recommend trying this.

Pours brown with a small white head. Refreshing, fairly smooth and crisp. Pretty good esb, it doesnt have that odd flavor that most of the ESBs do. Pretty good, I’d drink it agian.

12oz. bottle. Ruddy orange-amber with a tall off white head. Caramel, malt sweetness, and fruity hops in the aroma. Deep mellow caramel flavors with spicy/herbal and resinous/citrus hop components. Residual sweetness and some astringent bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium, somewhat dry.

Very clear light pale amber color with nice caramel flavor in taste and aroma. Nice bitterness and clean dry finish. Very drinkable

clear amber body with a nice white and lacey head, a weak slightly hoppy slightly malty nose, citrus, well balanced hop malt ratio, crispy and delicate palate, refreshing and clean, in my opinion it could use a some beefier hop bitters, but it is a pretty damn good beer just the way it is, and I will love it for who it is

This bottled brew poured a large sized head of finely sized mostly lasting off-white colored bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body contained soft carbonation, was transparent and caramel brown in color. Its aroma contained notes of medium malts hops and mild caramel. Its mouth feel is initially bitter hoppy with a lingering bitter palate and a hoppy aftertaste. Its flavor contained caramel hoppy notes. An above average brew.

Pours a nice hazy golden orange color. Aromas of nice citrus/grapefruit hops. Flavor starts malty and the hops kick in, nice crisp bitter finish.