Hop Back Red Ember

Brewed by Hop Back
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Salisbury, England

Serve in English pint

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[on draught at The Hobgoblin, Reading] Hint of spices (chilli? cardamon?), hint of smoke, hint of autumn fruits but otherwise not that interesting a flavour. Smooth, easily drinkable. Overwhelming bitterness and dryness in aftertaste killed it for me.

Cask @ Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. Pours an amber color with a longlasting off-white head. Fruity malty aroma with some spicy hints. Sweet malty spicy flavor with some hints of caramel and hops. Sweet malty spicy caramel finish with some hoppy aftertaste.

Cask conditioned at The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Red amber with white head. malty bitter, some roasted notes with a touch of perfume, charcoal and a little smoked in character. A sweetish caramel note in the finish. Reasonable.

Cask at Charlie’s, Copenhagen
Hazy amber color; nice head. Perfumy malt and hop aroma. Quite nice, light malt flavor, a bit fruity, with a pleasant yeasty touch. Pleasant golden (?) Ale.

Cask at Charlies. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Fruity aroma of malts, caramel and hops. Fruity flavour of malts, caramel and hops. Hoppy finish.

Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. An amber beer with a bubbly light orange head. The aroma is sweet with notes of fruit and malt. The flavor has weird fruity, toffee, and malt notes, leading to a dry toffee finish.

From cask at Mulligans, Milan, Italy. Charneol colour. Earthy, fruity aroma, and slight oxidized. Very 1-dimensional with suggestions of toast malts, but thats very subtle.

Dec 06 Cask conditioned @ Hobgoblin, Reading. Toasty malts and delicious floral hops. Really well balanced and drinkable.

Cask, White Horse, Oxford. Dark copper, fine tan cap of foam. Cinnamon, marmalade, dark plumy fruit in both aroma and flavor. A pleasant pint.