Climax Extra Special Bitter Ale

Brewed by Climax Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Roselle Park, New Jersey USA

Serve in English pint

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Bottle. Dusty, extremely fruity nose with a thin base layer of caramel, touch of apple juice. Pours clear orange with plenty of carbonation and a large, foamy beige head. Taste lightly sweet with floral fruity-yeasty tones, smacks of homebrew. Light bitterness, medium body, doesn’t have the crispness or guile that I’m looking for.

Cask pour at the Khyber. Cloudy blonde amber pour with a frothy white head. Yeasty. Bready. Egg whites. Banana. Pecans. Wheatgrass. Tree gum. Golden plums. Light vanilla caramel with some mild hop bite and a hint of Brett.

Poured at home from a 12 oz bottle. Both sweet fruit and sour yeast notes in the nose. Sour cider flavor. Perhaps off? Not real tasty.

Cloudy, deep amber appearance with a large, cream colored head and good lacing. Sweet, malty aroma backed by herbal hops. Sour notes distracted from the moderately bitter, tart, subtly hopped flavors. Maybe got a skunked 6er.

Not bad ESB, knocked another MJ 500 Classic Brews off my list. Amber in color with an off white head that lasted for a little while. Caramel malt and floral hoppiness. Nice relaxed ESB with a very balanced flavor, nice.

Slightly hazy orange coloured body with an amber glow and a ridiculously large, ten centimetre tall soapy tan head. Aroma of yeast, wort, sugars and a quite a bit of hop pellets - not much more. Medium-bodied; Strong grassy and floral notes up front with some lighter hop notes, but showing a bit of malt and way too many soapy type flavours - not very complex. Aftertaste shows a lot of malty and earthy notes with some english hop flavours and even more grass and especially clean soap. Overall, way too carbonated and not complex enough to be a good beer, but the flavours don’t remind me of a good bitter or ESB at all. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle from a six pack, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey for US$8.75/6pack sampled at home in Washington on 08-June-2012.

pours a cloudy amber color with an outrageous off white head. aroma is of caramel malts and some nuts. taste is the same... very pleasant rendition of a traditional English beer. very well done and really easy to drink

Draft at grace tavern with Vinny. Pours an amber body with no head or lacing. Aroma is vanilla. Mouthfeel is thin with notes of malty carbonation, vanilla, grain and sweet malts.

12oz bottle pours a light amber with a thin white head. Aromas of malt some slight nut and calmer toffee malt. Flavor is slightly bitter with a honey sweet finish. Body is medium light

Bottle from Blue Dog. Pours turbid early pumpkin orange with 1-finger white head. Nose is caramel malt, orange marmalade, hops, mild spice. Tastes citric, hoppy, with caramel malt, orange, spice, and a medium palate. Not terribly complex, and more of an APA.