Hales Special Bitter (Cream HSB)

Brewed by Hales Ales
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in English pint

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Nitro Tap at brew pub: Clear amber with a pretty tan nitro head. Smooth and sweet with some minor bitter notes in the finish. Pretty good.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden amber with a small,creamy and tan head. Aroma is toasted malty and light caramelish. Bitter, toasted malty and light caramelish to breadish. Ends bitter and dry.

Shinny gold color, nice big head, clings well. Nice nose, malt and hop and grass. Very clean finish. Yumm.

Nitro tap@ Hales. Clear dark amber color with rich ivory foam. Spicy caramel aromas with toffee, white cake. medium bodied. Lightly sweet spicy caramel flavor with mild pit fruit, and a mild metallica off taste.

Draught at Elk Public House, Spokane, WA. Clear copper colour, creamy head. Fruity with creamy balck currant. Sweet with medium body. Sugary and very fruity with canteloupe, red currant and green apple. Mild resiny bitterness.

2010-07-03. Crisp dark amber with a nice creamy off-white head. 3+ Flavour has very mild bitterness and very light citrus, muted malt is a touch grainy. Muted aroma, odd floral/hop character, oddly presented citrus. Surprisingly light palate. Meh. On tap at Hales, Seattle

[3095-20100703] Nitro. Creamy bread yeast aroma. Clear, orange amber body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. More bread yeast in the flavour with a long doughy aftertaste. Medium body. Nice, looks awesome.
(@ brewpub, Seattle, WA)

10 oz schooner draft at the brewery pub in Seattle, Washington. Nitro pour. Pour is big and frothy, tons of settling, deep copper in color, eventually a light tan head. Pretty, I like the look of a nitro pour, suck on that nitro haters. Aroma of not too much, touch of cereal grains, touch of sweet malt. Taste is sweet cereal grains, along with a weird chemical diacetyl which unsettles the balance and really flattens the beer out. Palate is the typical velevety flatish nitro, with mouth coating residual sweetness. Just ok.

Name: Special Bitter
Date: September 08, 2009
Mode: Draft, Nitro
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear copper, long cascade, creamy beige head, sheets of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma, light earthyness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of bready character, light balancing earthyness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

draft at naked city. why on gods green earth do i keep ordering beers on nitro? because i am an idiot with no capacity to learn from my mistakes? has to be. pours a crystal clear rubied dark amber with the usual vertically settling dense cream disc and sheets of thick lace. mild brown sugar nose. thick, creamy, flat, chalky, medicinal feeling, nasty ass body. mild brown bread mid palate. so little flavor. ugh. mild toasty resiny mid palate.

A quite creamy aroma. First taste was a bit weird but then this is great. Pretty malty with a thick finish.