Gales HSB (Can)

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

Serve in English pint

Poured a hazy copper color with a thin off white head. Lightly spiced, and sweet malt aroma. Lightly hopped citrus taste, lots of malt. Just below average.

Can. Poured a light brown with an averaged sized tan head. Subtle aromas and tastes of malts. Nothing overpowering. Thin and somewhat watery body. Nothing special but not bad.

UPDATED: AUG 3, 2004 Two Englishmen come in the pub where I bartend and informed me a local Jersey liquor store was running a deal on Gale’s HSB ($12.99 USD 14.9 oz. cans). These guys are good blokes and a premium bitter can be a good summer beer. I’m happy to say it was money well spent. HSB pours dark gold with excellent lacing, surprising for a plain old can of beer. "English" scent, adequate carbonation, caramel flavor, slight malt character. At 4.8% alcohol and its drinkability this bitter is a great summer session beer. I already bought a second case for camping in August.

Nice orange color with a white head. Carmel fruity aroma. Fruity aroma with some hops too. Full flavored beer. The hops linger throughout the beer. Good.

0.5 l can. Nice orange with a whitish head. Carmel fruity aroma. Some hops too. Full flavored carmel hop palate. Hops linger. Lots of flavor for a light beer. Too bad Boddington’s isn’t this good.

Nitro can, snifter. Caramel malt (M); earthy hops (L); toffee aroma. Deep brown color. Tinny, Sam Adams taste. Moderately sweet throughout with a moderate bitterness in the finish. Too much carbonation! Medium body, oily/creamy texture, heavy carbonation. The bottom line is: good, for a can, I guess.

A bitter that is really bitter, and not in a good way. This is a low alchohol bitter, that you can taste all the alchohol, very bland and boring.

Deep copper color, poured from a can. Full flavor bitter with a strong finish. A little too powerful on the back end for my tastes, but still not a bad bitter.