Gales HSB (Can)

Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Horndean, England

Serve in English pint

Can from Waitrose. Pours a deep brown colour with a thin but dense white head. Aroma is of a premium bitter rich in sweet malt and fruit. To taste there is loads of caramel, malt, dried fruit. Notes of toffee and fruitcake, some hop bitterness in the finish. Thick mouthfeel, not bad condition for a can but lacks the fresh feeling a cask gives.

Can, from Waitrose. Copper bronze, good fluffy white head and moderate condition. Low caramel and gentle fruity hops in the nose, sweet burnt treacle and caramel tempered by bitter hop in the mouth, lingering bitter sweet finish with treacle and hops both noticable. Not bad for a canned beer.

Clear copper / brown. Dense beige head.Clean peppery, bready smell. Very "English" - Understated bitterness with hint of plum jam and toast. Not bad.

Ruby brown. Fluffy and sustained head. Nice mild hops with more malt coming forth. Very satisfying.

Can from Waitrose. Dark amber with a long-lasting head. The aroma was mainly malt with a little fruit, possibly date, in there too. Very malty taste, shading into a slight bitterness at the close. Carbonation is about right, but there isn’t enough going on here to take it above the average.

can (thankfully no widget!) hazy, yellow- orange appearance. very creamy palate...very fruity apricot element, sweet, nicely balanced. Good!

(Can) Thin but creamy and dense head of fine bubbles. Low carbonation. Reduces to a thin foam with decent lacing. Roasted malt aroma. Dusty and dry with some hops presence. Color is a dark amber brown. Flavor has more roasted character. Slightly metallic and bitter. Some nuts in there also. Finish is a little bitter and creamy. A decent ESB but needs more hop bitterness.

Being as this is the first Gale beer I could actually finish, it’s not all bad. An ESB in a can? Well ok. A decent ESB. I heard this stuff was about .35 per can so it’s worth that. Thanks JF_Grind for sharing this.