 jkaiser (227), Orlando, Florida, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 18/20 |
Aug 19, 2009
This hoppy beer is not overbearing like dogfish. It’s lite but bitter character adds some body to an otherwise likeable entry.
alobar (1056), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 Dark ruby amber color with a white head that disappears quickly. Aroma of caramel malts, dark fruit, and hops. Flavor of caramel and dark fruit with a hop bitter ending. One of the best from this brewer.
shadey (1501), Rochester, New York, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Sep 16, 2009 Bottle.Deep red pour. Nicely fruity hop aroma. Flavor is caramel malt with a nice spicy, fruity hop finish. Good stuff.
smcolw (389), Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
May 30, 2009 Beige color rocky head with excellent lace. Ruby-ish dark amber color and slightly cloudy
Mild aroma of chocolatey malts and yeast; nearly no hop.
Tastes very much like a hoppy homebrew brown ale. The body is surprisingly thin with moderate carbonation. Some strong yeast flavors.
This is a flavorful beer. If a friend made this as a homebrew, I’d be very excited. As a store bought beer, I find it to be slightly flawed but tasty.
Acknud (794), Morganfield, Kentucky, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
Jan 31, 2009 Started out well but finished poorly. Something in the end taste put me off. It ended with a sort of metallic quality.
RIXbeer (102), USA
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 2/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Nov 28, 2008 Pours a light amber brown with a thick tan head. Smells like barnyard funk with a huge smack of funky old stale hops mashed with a sewer. Hops are boring. It’s kind of nasty actually. Something in this beer is very stale. Smells like a pile of wet hay. Thin and thin. Flows smoothly and easily down the throat. Drinkable? No way, I can’t even finish the one glass I got.
BelgianBeerGal (1330), Sabbatical in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Sep 26, 2008 Bottle during sampling at the brewery. Holy grapefruit hops batman! Definitely more hopped up that I expected. Like biting into a citrus rind, not in a bad way. Great balance between the bitter hops and the malty backbone. Very nice.
DarkElf (2681), La Jolla, California, USA
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
Sep 6, 2008 05-Sep-08 (22-oz bottle: Purchased at Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, DC) This toasty and even slightly roasty ESB shows quite a lot of hoppy flavor and bitterness, but with some red apple skin flavor and astringency on the palate that seems to pick up in prominence in the finish with each sip and eventually resembles bitter medicine when the beer has warmed to room temperature. It’s evident that this is an American interpretation of an English ESB because the hoppy bitterness is fairly strong for the style. Malty and appley nose. Medium-bodied with moderate carbonation, dry on the palate, but astringent in the finish. Clear, dark-amber in color with a full inch of fluffy, light-tan head, but retention is quite impressive, holding a quarter-inch layer for the session and leaving dense patches of foam on the glass. Would probably be a decent beer to drink, but it certainly seems to be a bit off, being marred by the medicine-like apple skin. Could use a rerate and hope for a healthier bottle.
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