3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22oz bottle from Phil
Appearance: Pours clear brown/copper with a medium sized off-white head and some lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, caramel and spices
Taste: Toasted malts, caramel, yeasty with some hop bitterness in the finish
A nice ESB, easy drinking
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Tap at the source. Clear chestnut color. Aroma of caramel and light summer fruit. Taste is bittersweet, but a bit unbalanced. Average.
1.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 5/20
Bottle. Thanks to BMan1113VR! Pours lightly hazy caramel amber, thick persistent off-white head, spotty lacing. Nose is citrus hops, spice, earth, caramel/toffee, light tropical fruit, some odd yeasty/estery notes that I’m not exactly digging. Flavours of earth, swert toffee and fruit, some real boiled vegetables throughout... You know, the more I drink this, the less I like it. I’m a HUGE Alesmith fan, but I kinda hate the shit outta this. This is genuinely unpleasant. Ass, I’ll pass.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark brown thin head slightly hazy. Very strong hop aroma. Very English hops in the aroma. Wow! Now that is a bitter . Lots of English hops grassy, malty and sweet. With lots of caramel. Very nice beer. Not a typical ESB. More like an ESB on steroids but i like.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
How is this a 100 in the ESB style? I was all geeked up to try this brew, but it let me down! First off..."sparkling clarity"? It’s a ruddy iced tea color. Foam retention? Ya know what, I think I got the wrong beer.
Anyway, aroma is quite appealing, with heavy toast, caramel/sugar, and pale sweet fruit. Flavor is wild ride, and not at all what I was expecting. Mouth-puckering bitterness comes along with champagne yeast and fruity hops. Balance seems to be way off on this one, lacking the malty backbone alluded to by the smell.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Full bodied beer. Lots of toffee and a little chocolate. Bold english hops. Like a craft Old Speckled Hen.
3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours amber color and has a huge light tan head. The aroma is a strange mix between tang and brown sugar with an awkward weirdness. Taste is sort of stale and apple-y but has a very apparent extract note. Medium body, but pretty true to style. Got better as I drank more. Still not great.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Secret Summer Santa. Bad band-aid nose, oxidized and astrigent. Stale and Extracty, a touch of fruit, bitter, mildly. After breathing a bit, the flavors mellowed, lots of caramel with some fruit, a mild toastiness. Not bad. A little put off by the initial nose.
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