Portsmouth ESB

Brewed by Portsmouth Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Serve in English pint

Bottle at PPRBSG09. Pours a clear brown with a small head. Aroma is rich and malty with some diacetyl. Flavor is sweet and bland--not much going on here really. Not bad, not good, just a boring beer. 6/4/6/3/12 (3.1/5)

(PPSG09, 220z bottle) Large beige head atop crystal clear copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, floral, caramel, some molasses/candi sugar. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel/molasses, floral/earthy, light cherry. Light-medium body.

I was rooting for this one. Wasn’t a fan though. Metallic bitterness and almost rotten grain taste. Some brown sugar sweetness and not much else.

Bottle at PilsnerPeter’s Spring Gathering. Pours a clear cola brown with orange highlights and a light white head. Sweet malt with a touch of hops and caramel on the nose. Medium bodied and a bit malty. Finishes with a light bitterness. Definitely sessionable, but rather boring.

Bottle. Aroma of lightly caramel malt. Flavor really the same, kinda sweet, not much nuance, virtually zero hop presence. Dull.

Bottle from rpstevens. Thanks! Pours dark amber/red with very short lived small head. Smell is slightly nutty, a bit fruity, and a bit sweet. Taste is fruity, nutty and malty but has a nice enough balance for the style, I suppose. A bit soft carbonation, but enough that it is suitable. Decent beer overall.

(On tap) Hoppy for an ESB. Somewhat generic quality to both the hops and the malt. Hops dominate. The hops are extremely powerful, however, not extremely bitter. A perfectly drinkable beer, but not particularly complex, and overall, not all that interesting.

Amber in color with a small off-white head. Aroma of toasted.biscuit malt and floral hops. Flavor os biscuit,sweet malt,mild roasted malt, assertive bitterness and hop finish.