4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
I love this beer. Whenever I want a good ESB I pick this up. Smooth beer with nice deep golden brown color and great taste!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 oz. bottle. Huge malty and hoppy aroma...way too big for the "style." Taste has huge notes of caramel and a finish of sharp citrusy hops...a stray roasty note as well. Great beer! I’ll call this an amber ale, an american pale, or even an English IPA...but this is not an ESB.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle- Pours a slightly hazy dark reddish brown color with a fluffy head that slowly fades to nice lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, bit of caramel with bit of mild fruit and bit of citrus. First taste is of roasted malt and some nuts. Then there is a citrus bite with a mild bitterness than lingers just a bit. Fairly medium body, crisp with a decent balance. Nice offering but nothing special. Seems to be more of a brown ale than an ESB.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tasted at the 2012 St. Louis Centennial Beer Festival. Poured a clear, dark brown color with fluffy white foam, long-lasting with some Belgian lace. Emphasis on English-style aroma hops, nice bready malts underneath. Solid malt bill: pale, caramel, toast, hints of apricots and nuts. Light-medium body, tart and fruity aftertaste. Good stuff.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A hazy, reddish-brown pour with a rocky, tan head. The malty aroma is filled with bread, chocolate, and some roasted grains. The full body has a thick and somewhat sticky texture with average carbonation. The semi-sweet initial taste is slightly roasted and followed by a dry, bitter finish.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
The first time I had this beer I wasn’t into "hoppy" beers. I was a little surprized how well I liked it any wase. The name is a little off putting but the liquid makes up for it:)
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark reddish brown colour with brown head. Aroma is malty, corn, citrus. Taste is nicely balanced hops and malts...more on the bitter side. Quite nice.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep muddy dark brown coloured body with a touch of a ruby hue and a thinnish, one cenitmetre tall tan head. Aroma of earthy floral hops from england or germany with a good malt note and some caramel and raisins added for sweetness. Medium-bodied Assertive, biting hoppiness up front with a nice smooth malty flavour and some earth and caramel and perhaps even coffee at the end that shows a touch of the piney and floral hops near the end. Overall, a nice and surprsingly complex beer - perfect for the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Tustin, California on 06-December-2011 for US$1.79 sampled at home in Washington a few hours before leaving for California again on 13-January-2012.
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