Flying Fish ESB Amber Ale

Brewed by Flying Fish Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Serve in English pint

Smells okay. Very little carbonation in the beer; looks stale. Flavor is a little malty. Mostly plain and boring.

The aroma is not bad but not right for an ESB. It’s a bit malty and a bit grassy but not much of anything. The appearance is golden with a tiny amber hue. The head is medium. The taste is like the aroma and not bad but not an ESB. The palate is average for the style. Overall I am not that impressed.

12 ounce bottle from Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia. Welcome to Georgia (or, more specifically, Total Wine stores in Georgia), Flying Fish! Appearance: Pours a clear, copper-amber body with, despite a hearty pour, only a thin, white head. Smell: Lightly sweet-scented, lightly spicy aroma of irregularly-sliced, delicately toasted white bread topped with dried apricots, a pinch of lemon peel, and dusted with spice. Taste: Pale malts marked with light bready, toasty touches to it and given sweet additions of toffee and honey candy. Fruity accents of ripe apricot but also some lemony citrus. Predominately spicy-minded hops with a soft, balancing bitterness. A rebound of malty sweetness pushes back through the spiciness and bitterness, though things finish reasonably dry for the finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-plus carbonation with a minute prickliness to it. Drinkability: Not the most authentic ESB on the block, possibly the reason for tacking "Amber" onto the label, though possibly for a less baffling name for those not familiar with the style. Still, it’s tasty, easy-drinking, and sensibly light on the alcohol.

12oz bottle. slightly hazy orange under small white head. aroma is more malty than their pale or ipa. flavor is very similar to their APA that i tried earlier. more malty but very similar.

Bottle pours a cloudy amber with a thin lacing white head. Scent is sweet malts. Taste is an interesting caramel bitter. Nice

12oz bottle pours orange amber with minimal head. Aroma is malty and earthy some yeast detected. Flavor is malty up front and carmel malt notes too some flural hops in backround. Very smooth medium full body with a good bitter finish. One of the best 6packs flying fish offers

couleur léger ambre, mousse est fine et disparaît rapidement. Arôme, qcq traces de malt et de houblon, sans plus. Goût, malt avec qcq touche de caramel et une fine amertume quoique en dessous du style anglais qui est accompagnée par le côté caramel. La fin reste assez faible. En final je note plus un aperçu plus houblon avec de l’amertume (finement citronnée) et le tout est fini par qcq notes de malt grillé, effervescence est présente.

12oz bottle from JTclockwork. Pours clear amber with small off-white head. Aromas of sweet toasty malts, caramel, and some hops. Flavor was really off. Kind of metallic with caramel and malts. Meh.