3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
In the bottle. Pours gold with a reticulated white foamy head. Amazing web-like lacing coats the sides of the glass with enthusiastic adhesion. Aroma mild with a tea-like scent. Long, long bitter aftertaste. A slow burn, if you will. The palate is balanced- bitter, malt caramel, and gypsum. Not at all over the top, just darn good.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours clear copper with a white soapy head. Aromas strikes me as being sweet and citric. Medium body with a creamy frothy feel, but the carbonation is spritzy and sharp. Taste has sweet malt with spicy hops. Fizzy carbonation comes in - after the carbonation effect dies off what’s left is spciy hops with bits of woodiness. The taste seems to have traces of tea. An okay ESB.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Great frgrant floral nose, smooth malty characteristics, with a dry bitterness coming through after every swallow. Pretty well balanced, with not alot going on as far as flavor, but pretty easy to drink.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hoppy-flowery. Malty. .. .. Clear, orange, Med white head. .. Sharp (carbonation). Bitter w/ some malt. Malty Finish. .. . Prickly carbonation. Med / Lt body. .. .. Not too bad. Not terribly exciting, maybe too malty for an ESB???
3.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
This one was OK weak aroma can’t even really describe it. Taste is of floral hops but not but else. Again OK.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Clear bright copper colour. Small white head. Medium to high bitterness, slightly rough. The flavour has some bonbon. Rough aftertaste and thin mouthfeel.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Amber in colour with a medium sized white head. Slightly floral and hoppy. Fells very "clean" and has a mild maltyness.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Smokey, yeasty, vaguely fishy aroma. Orange-tinged gold, not one of their better labels. Lightly candied, vegetable, musty, moderately bitter. Bittering shows in the finish. I worry over the commercial description "simulate English hard water" clause - does "treatment" mean adding chalk to the water? Overall, a caricature of an English bitter, but without cohesiveness.
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