Beer Works Bay State ESB

Crystal clear copper body with beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, light cinnamon. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, light nutty, cherry, chocolate. Watery light-medium body. Seems like an amber.

Tap@Beer Works, Boston, Ma. Strange one. Toasty, with berry fruit, chocolate and ash, citric hops, kind of odd for an ESB, but the flavouors worked somehow, don’t ask me me how, but they somehow molded together.

(Draught) Pours a clear deep amber body with a moderate off-white head. Aroma of caramel, nuts, light fruitiness, and toasted grain. Flavor of pine hoppiness, caramel, and nuts with a dry finish.

22oz cask pull at Salem location on 5/20/06. Deep burgundy-violet-cranberry red body is bright, with a very well-retained ivory head that is dense and leaves wispy lacing. Nutty, English hops are dusty, and very light in the nose. Creamy, modestly sweet malts (pale sugars, buttercream). Fruitiness is actually rather tame, some black cherries and light tangerines. Some mild roast and peanut brittle, but the creamy-pale malts smooth things out. Creamy malts show nuts (walnut paste, with some vanilla cream) and very nutty hops. Some minimally bitter hop bitterness on the end. Crystal malts enliven things, somewhat and are well balanced by the pale malts. Cherries and almonds build up quite well on the finish. Very creamy texture, not overly watery with low carbonation. Too strong (in alcohol, even though you can’t taste it) and a little muddled by the amount of malt notes, but the texture is very impressive, as is the clean, fairly-crisp finish and overall condition of the beer. No diacetyl or alcohol.

Clear amber color with a thin offwhite head. Mild aroma of hops, malt and caramel. Flavor of hops, smoked malt (strange for an ESB) and caramel with a bitter finish.Light body, watery texture, soft carbonation.