Grand Teton XX Bitch Creek Double ESB

Brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale
Victor, Idaho USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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Sam Kinison said it best. Oh, Ohhhhhh! This brew rocks, or is it coffee? Dark amber in color with a thick head that just sits there like a lead pancake floating on my beer. Strong aromas of bitter cocoa, roasted coffee bean, and a bit of brown cake bread with some pine resin. Full nectar with superb carbonation. This beer is not thick and gooey like most full bodied beers. It still has a bit of pliability to it. It goes down easy yet is quite creamy on the tounge. Flavors of roasted coffee bean and bitter cocoa speak to me in tongues while this superior hop component slaps my face forward. This brew is not sweet at all. Rather a dry specimen that drinks like black coffee. The finish is bittered with an ingenious use of hops that keep the user coming back for more. Excellent brew guys.

UPDATED: MAY 12, 2010 Upon reconsideration, this beer really is everything I remembered the first time...glad to have a couple extra of these! (1 Quart 1.8 fluid oz.) Murky brown with orange hue. Under light looks just like caramel. Head is melted coffee ice cream. Under certain lights, the murky brown almost hints at purple (wild looking). Aroma is burnt semi-sweet chocolate, espresso, boozy, fruit esters (berry). Flavor starts sweet syrupy and fades to bitter dark chocolate with hints of caramel and fruit sweet berry. Finish is bitter dry biting beautiful long lasting.

( 1L flip-top bottle dated 9/25/2008 thanks to mar) Pours chocolate brown with nice oily bubbles. Nose of brown sugar, alcohol, sweet gains and quite complex. Taste is sweet malts, alcohol, and fruity. Loved this beer.

wow, a surprise here! opened by myself asssuming it would be lackluster as best, boy was i wrong! pours a dense deep ruby red to light brown with a 2-3 finger orangish tan head in a pint glass. truly beautiful, consistent lacing. the aroma is very nice, and the taste is great as well. this is already drinking more like an old ale. spicey, slightly funky, awesome stuff, much better than expected. if you have any of this i would honestly suggest aging it a few more years. its seems as though some bottles are not as nice, but this one i just popped at over 2 years old is drinking very well and definitely would have held up at least a couple more years, and possible even many more. it reminds me of third coast and old horizontal with the slightly cheezy musk to it. excellent, i will probably drink this entire litre to my head tonight. quite a gem in my eyes.

1 L swingtop bottle purchased at Pole Line Nugget in Davis, CA. Bottled 10/21/08, consumed on 11/19/08. This has an annoying wax covering the swing top. What’s the point of that? Took me 5 minutes to open this fucker. The beer has a very nice piney, orange, and citrus c-hop nose. Quite quaffable. Moderately hazy cola-colored body with a pretty frothy yellow-tan head. Fair lacing. A very attractive beer. Starts a bit peppery before a lot of heavy roasted maltiness takes over. Very chewy with some tobacco notes and a little cocoa. Rich. Finishes lightly sweet with herbal, piney, and peppery hop flavors. I like this a lot...surprisingly. Drink this now, as the hops balance this very nicely. I did subtract an overall point because of the fucking wax.

Minus 10 points for the fight with the wax to get a ceramic cork out. Dark brown with a very thick creamy perpetual head. Lots of cork-like residue in the bottom of the glass. Woody malty hop nose. Great creamy thick body. Lots of hops and surprisingly coffee in the flavour. Its like a coffee IESB.

Some hops and some caramel in the aroma. Wow does this have some intense flavor. Peaty, a bit smoky, quite a lot of malt. A flavorful sipping beer, this is easily the thickest richest beer I’ve ever had at this low of an alcohol content! Crazy thickness.

Big Bottle. Aroma roasty coco, coffee and some molasas in third pint. Chocolate milk colored head with some good lacing. Was little bit of a gusher opening the fliptop. Good lacing more on last glass. Crabinated brew with coffe roast the some chcocolate and some caramel thick molasas. Bready notes along with a mild shugar in the mix. Dry coco and coffee bean palate. Good brew intriging from start to finish.

Bottle. Dark reddish brown with a dense light brown head. The aroma is fruity, barley, hops, toffee, caramel, ripe fruit and overall very intense. The flavour is barley, hops, intensive dark fruity and molasses. Creamy texture. Very good.

Huge bottle. Note to the brewer: a swing-top should not be dipped in wax! Pours a beautiful dark red-orange with a huge tan head that collapses into rocky flotsam and generates heavy lace. Aroma is very malty: lots of toast and toffee, some chocolate, with nice hop accents of citrus and flowers. Chewy malty palate, rich toasty malts, toffee, chocolate with fruity accents and a moderately bitter finish. Big and malty and very tasty. I thought this was delicious!