 JDUB (170), Beautiful Venice Beach, California, USA
Jun 20, 2005 A strong bitter. Very good and worth trying. Floral hops and sweet maltiness. Does have a prominent bitter presence.
Pailhead (2572), Allen Park, Michigan, USA
Jun 15, 2005 Bottle: Courtesy of Foolish Mortal thru a trade. Lots of caramel in the aroma with a nice flowery hop balance. Pours a hazy reddish-orange with a small white head. Flavor is mostly caramel with a nice flowery hop balance, just like the aroma. A light citrus character in the background in the finish. Caramel malt lingers into the aftertaste more so than the hop finish.
bu11zeye (5430), Frisco, Texas, USA
May 20, 2005 (Bottle) Pours a lightly cloudy amber body with an average creamy off-white head. Aroma of toffee, pine, and alcohol. Flavor of caramel malt and mild hops. Nicely balanced.
atpayne (615), Zionsville, Indiana, USA
May 3, 2005 Nice copper color with a creamy off white head. The aroma is a mix of malt and hop. Some sweet and slightly roasty malts and mild piney hop aromas. The flavor has a distinct creamy malt profile which is followed by a mild bitterness. Malt develops with some roasted character. The finish is light to medium bodied.
Sahlholdt (276), Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 30, 2005 Amber with disapearing beige head. Hints of sweetnes in the aroma. Good balance bettween hops and malt. High drinkability. Soft and smooth with a good lingering aftertaste.
tomhenderson (126), Carolinas area, USA
Apr 17, 2005 22 oz bottle. Pours a pretty copper color with good (but not brilliant) clarity. Almost no head, which is typical of a good ESB. (See BJCP.org for style guildlines.) Rich in flavor, leaning more toward caramel malt, yet there’s a good balance of undetermined hoppiness. Overall, this is a superb ESB, just as I would expect from AleSmith.
quimist (3), California, USA
does not count  Apr 14, 2005 Smooth, honey, well balanced, goes down smooth. Thought it would be more hoppy. Would make for a good everyday beer.
SRBMOJO (6), ALISO VIEJO, California, USA
does not count Apr 14, 2005 very similar to an ESB I homebrewed, makes me feel a little better about my own brew. light head and lacing, nice copper orange color, not bad.
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