Anderson Valley Boont ESB

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Boonville, California USA

Serve in English pint

12 fl oz bottle at Bishops Arms, Linköping, on January 7, 2012
Hazy amber color, big lasting white head. Malty, caramel, grainy, barley, fudge, straw scent. Some faint hops in the scent as well. Malty, sweet, bitter, hoppy taste. Moussy mouthfeel, high bitterness. Bitter, grainy, fudge aftertaste.
Nice and malty, a bit too bitter for me. I’d drink it again.

Bottle 355ml @ Patricks Pub og Restaurant, Kristiansand
Pours clear golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, grain and grass. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is light to medium, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.

Bottle. Clear, golden/light amber liquid with medium to big off-white head. Aroma of citrus, grapefruit and light cereal malt. Light sweet, medium bitter and quite hoppy. Medium bodied with OK carbonation. Nice esb.

Bottle@Patricks pub. Pours golden with an off white head. Aroma of woody, floral and grassy hops and some malt. Falvor is sweet and malty with some bitterness and a metallic note. Medium body, average carbonation.

Bottle. Translucent light orange pour with a two inch head that recedes to an inch and lasts the time it takes to drink the beer. Aroma is strong and includes red apples and a spice I cannot identify. Taste is a complex mix of sugary sweetness, apple, pear, peach, and hoppy bitterness that lingers on the tongue. Creamy texture, slightly syrupy mouth feel. Easy to drink.

A hazy, amber-orange pour with a thin white head. The aroma has floral and grassy hops mixed with some light, bready malt. The light body has an oily texture with soft carbonation. The taste is mildly bitter with a very dry finish.

Firkin. The beer pours to a brassy orange body with a crisp white head. It glows with an inner luminosity. The aroma is subtle caramel malts with some floral like hops. The flavor is your traditional ESB. Caramelized malts with floral hops and that difficult to pinpoint ESB character. The palate was silken smooth and super easy drinking at 6.8%. The beer is simply "good and well made". I’d drink this again.

12oz bottle pours heavy amber with a full head and good lacing. Aromas of bread biscuit and good malty sweet aromas. Flavor is on the sweeter doughy side and very layered. Incredible palate on the medium side with a hood beer malt after taste.