BridgePort ESB

Brewed by BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in English pint

Clear amber color with a thick and rocky white head. Aroma is lightly apple like with a hint of hops. Malty apple beginning in the flavor with a pleasant bitter finish. Enjoyable ESB. Not incredibly complex but tasty enough for everyday drinking.

Now this is an excellent sessoin ale. Murky, almost purple, orange copper ale. White head that dissipates. Nose is all cotton candy and powdered sugar. Sweet, sweet nose. A metallic, rusty edge completes the britishness of the malty aroma. Hops lie dormant but apparent in the nose. A very subtle bitterness that isn’t too fancy and not too much either. Well done for the style I think. Flavors are complex. The sweetness turns into a bitterness almost immediately. The sweet malts smash against your tastebuds and mix up into a mettalic and battery acid bitterness that is quite pleasing. Finish is all hoppy bitterness. Very earthy. Dirt-like hop bitterness. Good beer all in all.

Bottle. Pours amber with off-white head that quickly dissipates to lace. Herbal aroma, restrained carbonation, rather dry actually, a good serving of hops, dried fruit (plum and apricot) in the finish. A very good ESB.

Pours coppery red with a medium tan head. Nose is floral hops. Very flavorful with lots of hops character, well balanced with creamy wheat. Rather bitter for an ESB but not unpleasantly so, and not out of style. Mildly bitter floral aftertaste mixes with the good malt character. Pretty good.

Pours a perfect amber with a big head and lots and lots of lacing. Aroma is very floral (dandelion?) with a mild herbal note, perhaps a bit of honey. Flavor is perfectly balanced, sweet and toasty malt meets bitter and smooth hops. A bit on the acidic side, and certainly spritzy, but very nice. Very quaffable. Very good balance.

Nice carmel color with light head. Flowery and roasted aroma, very nice. Sweetness and flowery hops meet very well balanced. Almost creamy in texture, with a finish that just carries over the flowery beginning. Smooth.

Pours a cloudy pale copper under a one finger white head with lots of bubbles. The head fades quickly to thick film, but leaves lots of lace spots. The nose is coniferous, with a touch of malt fighting its way through the sap. The mouth is light and well-carbonated - a bit too much for the style. The flavor profile is about right, with mild sweet plum in the malt, chased by pretty strong pine bitterness. The finish is strong and dry, while the aftertaste fades quickly to a dry tickle at the back of the throat.

hazy amber. lots of yeast floaters. very hoppy aroma and flavor. bitter. tastes like a pale ale with bigger bready malts. light bodied.