Back Street ESB

Brewed by Back Street Brewery (Vista)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Vista, California USA

Serve in English pint

On tap at the Vista location. Pours with a clear, deep golden body with no head. Aroma of honey, biscuit, toast, and caramel. Flavors are caramel, grainy, husky and toasty. Medium bubbles. Pretty average tasting ESB.

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 13/10/2007 Malt and hop aromas. Golden coloured and smooth on the palate with a crisp malt finish.

Tap @ Vista location. Poured a hazed copper with an off-white head. Toasty caramel malt aroma. Caramel and citrus flavor. Light to medium body.

[Part of sampler @Vista, CA] Very drinkable beer. The best I sampled at Back Street. Light amber colour, hoppy with a sweet aftertaste. Warm. Nice.

From tap in Irvine. Light amber brown color with a thin layer of creamy white head and a semi translucent, syrupy appearance. Light aromas of english toffee, along with a touch of honey and some grassy hops. The flavor is quite a nice balance of cookie dough maltiness and bitter hops. Some floral marigold flowers and nutty almonds make a palate appearance as well. Final smack brings out the bitter hop characters more cleanly.

light brown color tiny white head, aroma is barly there, toffee & light grain w/ some other sugars. Palate is well coated and has an average body flavor is mostly toffee quite sweet and a light dry finish. Ok.

Pours to a clean brassy body with a thin white head. The aroma is lightly bitter and has hints of graham cracker. The flavor is subtle bitterness, yellow grapes, and graham crackers. I also get Hershey’s almond bars. The palate is medium bodied, slick, so-so.

Nioce aroma, decent head, little lacing. Very thin tasting beer. Not what I expect from an ESB. Mild hop aroma and finish, not really very bitter. Very mild malt flavor. I hate to say it, but this is probably the best this joint has to offer! A palatable beer, nothing to write home about.