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Empyrean Luna Sea ESB

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Serve in English pint

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RATINGS: 70   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.18   EST. CALORIES: 189   ABV: 6.3%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Our brewer’s pride and joy, that’s why we call it “Extra Special.” Big, sweet, caramel and biscuit flavors are delicately balanced with crisp, cedary, Noble hops.


3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 12/20
adnielsen (3108) - Denver, Colorado, USA - FEB 7, 2012
Bottle @ home. Hazy, dark orange appearance with an off white head. Mildly toasty, caramel malty, mild earthy, grassy hoppy aroma. Slightly citrusy, toasty caramel malty, moderate toffee, straw/grassy hoppy, cereal flavor. Nice to see Nebraskan brews finally make it to Colorado but this one is just decent.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
jcwattsrugger (8692) - Florida and, New Jersey, USA - FEB 7, 2012
12oz bottle-pours amber with a foamy offwhite head. Aroma is sweet grain/light/medium malt. Taste is sweet grain/light/medium malt-bready/some chocolate, some fruit/earth hops.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
BVery (1976) - Burnsville, Minnesota, USA - JAN 18, 2012
Bottle. Slightly hazy light dirty gold pour with a smaller white head. Aroma is a bit of aspirin and cough syrup, with some sweet caramel. Medium to lighter palate, with a nice carbonation bite. Taste is slightly medicinal, caramel, cereal, candy sugar, with a nice hop profile. I see someone referenced GrapeNuts as a flavor comparison - I like that, I also get that.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
jtclockwork (3434) - , New Jersey, USA - OCT 31, 2011
Bottle thanks to John. Pours reddish amber with off white head. Nose/taste of candy sugar, roasted caramel, gummy bear and grain. Medium body.

3.2
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
drjay44 (1614) - Salida, Colorado, USA - OCT 23, 2011
12 oz. bottle. Pours a medium, short lived, white head, over a hazy, amber (SRM 8) body....nose is light toffee/caramel, light cereal, light toast....taste is cereal (Grapenuts), light toffee/caramel, light bitter finish....mouth feel medium, carbonation medium. This is a fairly typical ESB, not complex, just pleasant. BJCP 7/3/12/4/7

2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
beaz1591 (72) - Omaha, Nebraska, USA - OCT 18, 2011
Poured a honey amber color with light head and some lacing and carbonation bubbles. Smells of grass. Can taste subtle hints of the biscuit but is too bitter for me.

3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
troyc (2014) - Oklahoma, USA - JUL 18, 2011
[Tap] Part of a sampler at Lazlo’s in Omaha. Dirty blonde pour with nice lacing. Crisp hops and grass dominate the nose. Actually one of the better smelling beers I had here. The taste is of hops, astringent grains and some odd sour notes. Low carbonation levels. A pretty pedestrian beer.

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 11/20
unclemike (1365) - Ft. Riley, Kansas, USA - JUN 4, 2011
Orange and light brown with little head and a little haze. Not much aroma, a bit of orange. Flavor is slightly malth and a little sour, but is lacking much of anything else. Eventually there is a minor bitterness


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