Schlafly Winter ESB

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint

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12 oz bottle pour. Bottled December of 2008. Pint Glass. Pours very clear orange with a thin white head. Bubbles are rising rapidly. Aroma is very hoppy, slight citrus, grassy. Flavor is slight sweet malt, salty, hops. Excellent balance! Bitter finish.

Serving: 12 oz. bottle from State Line Liquors. It pours a deep, hazy orange with a pretty dense white head. The nose has notes of earth, pale malt, a touch of citrus (?), and bread. The flavor is bready with light orange notes, a bit of honey comb, and a very light bitterness. Medium to full body with easy carbonation and a fairly short finish. Nice brew.

This is light and crisp and a very easy drink. Has a light amber color with a moderate head. Slight hoppy palate and nose, but makes for a very interesting drink.

Not bad, but a little forgettable. Malty, sharp golden wheaty looking. Low hop character, and a wee bit astringent. This was my go-to beer when all other non-AB options were unavailable during a trip to St. Louis.

UPDATED: APR 27, 2012 Floral aroma with some citrus. Pours a golden amber with a nice white head. Not very hoppy or sweet. A good beer.

Hazy amber-brown, quick off-white head. Scent is sweet, bready,slight hop’ Taste is malty, some citrus notes...rye. Has an almost sugary feel to it, yet not overly sweet. The 6.8% ABV is not felt at all....you could get really nobbed by these if you made an evening of it. Overall, pretty satisfying blend of flavours and textures. Good one.

Easy drinking winter session beer. Smooth. Light caramel, Slightly roasty. Nice ale, but nothing too special.

On tap at Pi in DC. Served in a nonic pint glass. Pours a moderate caramel-copper color with a good white head and some nice lacing on the way down. The nose carries a nice bit of floral and earthy hops with some light breadiness behind that. Flavor was nice and hoppy and had a good backbone, though the latter wasn’t too heavy. Light-medium body with a semi-dry finish. Quite good.

Poured a lightly hazy, light copper amber with a fairly tall off-white head that dropped to about 1/4". The aroma was mostly caramel malt with a milder citrus aroma of apricot/tangerine. There were lots of carbonation bubbles rising up in the glass. The beer was malt forward with lots of caramel malt flavor with a good balance of citrus, but without much hops bite. All in all a very mellow, easy drinking beer with a slight hops bite on the finish.

Orange-ish tan and slightly hazy, had is so-so, as is lace. It’s very malt forward in every way, but also has plentiful hops character. This is more pronounced in the taste than the smell. It’s very tasty and easy to drink, well carbonated and relatively session-y in overall character. I quite like this beer, it’s really nice.

THOUGHTS: Decent beer, but not all that wintry. A good amount of citrus. It almost seemed more summery, but I guess it’d be a little thick in the summer. If you told me it was an orange beer, I’d believe you. Not very complex, but what’s there is nice. Even easier to drink than the ABV would suggest. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a light to medium, orangey amber with an average to large, off-white head that kept a nice sheet and left good lacing. There were also tiny particles of a thick density floating in the body. The aroma had light caramel; moderate to heavy orangey hops; and other citrus fruits. The initial flavor was light to mod sweet and lightly acidic; while the finish was moderately sweet, moderately acidic; slightly bitter; and ever so slightly sour. There was a little caramel, tons of orange, spicy rye and other citrus.The slightly more than medium body was a little syrupy with fairly soft carbonation and a slightly metallic and ever so slightly astringent finish.