Taste 8/8 Bottle(12/21/06). What the hell...december 06. Damn rotate your beer TOTAL WINE. Looks: Iced tea body, with a tiny yeasty head. Aroma:Grain malt. Mild yeast/sour. Taste: Iced tea, bland, a little sour yeast. I think this beer is old. I’ll rerate with a fresher product. Has aged very well..bonus points.

Bottle sampled. Pours amber in color with a small off-white head. Aroma of light caramel, toffee, and bready malts. Flavor of caramel, toffee, spicy hops and a hint of chocolate.

Dark golden colour with slight tan beige head that leads too a small lingering lace. Caramel candy aroma is dominate in the aroma. Flavour again ... caramel candy with very light bitters. Body is fine but over all I found it all a bit confusing as to what I was getting.

12 oz bottle. A very confused brew. Not an ESB, not a bitter. Tastes more like an attempt at a Black’n’Tan that somebody mixed with last year’s old halloween candy leftovers. Balance of malt and hops is all out of whack for my tastes. There is simply no sense of adventure in this dud. Otter Creek has done better.

355 ml, bottled 1-31-07. Dark copper with a medium and lasting head. Nose is mellow fruit with some slight earthy spices. Flavor is big caramel malt on front with some cedar, pecan nut, sour fruit, chocolate, spiced honey, and more. Turns toward the bitter in the middle with more dry, sourish wood and earthy tones; almost some smoke in the aftertaste at times. Palate is smooth and tingly at the same time, with a medium body, and dry on the finish. Awesome balance and complexity, this ESB is way under-appreciated.