3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at 2006 Chromefest: Poured orange with a medium sized white head. Mild malt and light coffee/chocolate aroma. Mild grassy hops in the flavor with medium bitterness int he finish. Odd for an ESB I guess but I did enjoy it.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Dark honey/light brown body with a thin ring of bubbles. Nose-fresh honeycomb. Taste-bitter, light malt, hay, seems top me like the bitter is out of control with respect to the malt. Not bad. A true bitter, I suppose.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
ESB but in the Northwest tradition--an aroma like an IPA. Caramel, floral, tea, more caramel. Drinkable.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
2006 Brewmaster Reserve - Pours hazy amber (looks like an ipa) with light head. Aroma has notes of sour citrus and hops. Flavor is malt and citrus followed by musky hops. Definitely not a traditional ESB but nicely put together.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Poured a clear orange-amber color with a small white head. Hoppy aroma that was soapy, perfumey and a light citrus. Malt came up quickly behind it. Malty flavor with a moderately bitter finish. Some lemon notes at the end. Low carbonation. Light to medium bodied.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours amber with a medium white head. Smells very odd yeasty smell of barnyard is present with some molasses notes and floral and grapefruit smells as well. Citrus and yeast flavors come through in the taste. Seems hoppy at first but flavor becomes very yeasty. Very weird ESB not my thing.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A good session beer. Reasonably priced, not too high in alcohol, and not too extreme in flavors. Hoppier than a traditional english ESB, but still well balanced between hops and malt.
Nice light body with a refreshig aftertaste. A good effort by Full Sail.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
I feel like I am a little too soft on these beers, but I guess I only pick good ones to rate. This ones lovely new penny in color with a pillowy head that fades quickly. Can’t smell much-- roast caramel malt, I guess giving away to a sharp lemony tartness. It tastes good. Wonderfully rich and round body that playfully gives way to a sharp but correct bitterness that refuses to linger unpleasently. I guess that is thanks to that soft malty sweetness that is always lingering in the background with this one. Really a nice beer, deserving of its high-esteem on this site.
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