Harpoon ESB

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint

A nice looking beer with a well balanced flavor. Not your typical party brew but very good for having one or two with friends.

Nice hopped ESB. Light hop aroma ixed with malt. A bit of a bite in the finish.

Clear amber in color, light beige head and fair lace. Nose is malt, top light, the finish is nicely hopped, dry, lightly acidic, and a good drinkable beer.

Pale orange in color; Fluffy, cloudy head. Appropriately dry in the back. Lacks the alcohol punch that I enjoy in an ESB.

One of the better ESBs I’ve had out of the bottle and not on a hand pump or something like that, kept a very nice head throughout the pint, very nicely balanced with a crisp malty flavor, a nice hoppy aftertaste, not quite as bitter as I expected, but still a pretty nice ESB

UPDATED: JAN 11, 2004 Re-rate: A solid session brew. Good hops in the aftertaste. First rating: A good beer to have ice cold on a hot day.

Appearance: tawny red/orange, decent-sized but fast-fading head, slightly translucent; aroma weak, but some nice fruit and hop notes. Flavor really pretty boring; there’s some hops, some malt, but it all feels like there’s nothing at the center, like its just a surface with nothing inside. Somewhat bitter finish; little sweetness, medium body. Not a good ESB.

I am not an ESB person.