Green Man ESB

Brewed by Green Man Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Asheville, North Carolina USA

Serve in English pint

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Draft @ Jack of the Wood. Asheville, NC. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Name: Extra Special Bitter
Date: 09/13/2002
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Hazy orange, slightly sweet malt aroma, medium malt body with a hint of sweetness, nice lasting long low bitter flavor,
-------- /> Name: Extra Special Bitter
Date: 09/13/2002
Mode: cask
Score: iiii

Wow! Creamy velvet body, hops, hops, hops, great hop aroma, lots of mild esb hop flavor, but not ’hoppy’, fantastic until the cask was kicked, one of the top 5 casks of all time. Wow!
-------- /> Name: Extra Special Bitter
Date: 08/12/2005

lots of carmel sweetness balanced by the wnderful esb bitterness, still a great esb, body is tweeked up a bit to the optimum level

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Score: **4
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(draft) Crystal clear amber body with beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, chocolate, toffee, some caramel, peach. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, caramel/toffee, light peach, earthy. Light-medium body.

on tap-pours a light tan head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel/roasty, nutty, earthy. Taste is medium malt-caramel/roasty, nutty, earthy, musty. Some detractor.

A reddish amber ale with a thin moka head. In aroma, light grassy malt, faint hops. In mouth, a nice grassy nutty malt, faint British hops, not bad. On tap at Twin City Brewfest, August 13 2011.

Draft. Very dark brown, murky. Aroma of pure sugar and caramel. Taste is sweet and malty. Totally off style.

Draught. Pours clear mahogany with a small, fizzy, white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (straw, bread, chocolate), average hop (grass), average yeast (dough) with notes of pear and apple. Medium bodied, slick texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity, and heavy bitterness. Light chocolate, caramel notes in the flavor.

On tap at Jack of the Wood, Asheville NC, 6 July 2006. Copper colour. More malt than hop on the nose and palate. Caramel in the flavour. Restrained, earthy, UK style hops. Smooth mouthfeel. Pleasant enough but not one of the more striking of the Jack in the Wood beers.

Tap at the brewpub on 2/3/08: Transparent copper orange with a wispy-lacing white head. Aroma of sweet toasty caramel malty notes and some earthy piny English hops. Body starts with good fullness and sweet toasty caramel maltiness balanced with a resiny hop bitterness. Smooth, true to style and enjoyable, a good ESB.

Served on draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear copper color with a medium head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of grainy malts, caramel and some nutty notes. Taste is caramel, toasted grain, floral hops. Medium bodied.