Pyramid Alehouse ESB

Formerly brewed at Pyramid Breweries
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in English pint

Pours a medium pale amber, nose is light on earthy hops and taste is moderately bitter with bland grain body

Pyramid Ales--Alehouse ESB Ale--Brown 1998 12 oz. Bottle. 5.60% ABV (3.25 / 5.0) ESB--Good Malt, but a touch fruity. Pyramid Ales--Alehouse ESB Ale--Purple 1999 12 oz. Bottle. 5.60% ABV (3.0 / 5.0) ESB--Light clear caramel color. Pours easy due to light body. Light tasty malt body missing rich graininess of best ESB’s. Slightly fruity, but pleasingly so. Very mild hop character. Sampled 11/7/1998.

Had this beer on 6/23/2000. Aroma is a sweet malt scent. Color is a brownish orange with light carbonation and head. Taste roasted and bitter. Starting with a light/medium body it goes down crisp. Finish is a mild malt flavor with an odd hop flavor and bitterness. Overall I think it fits it’s category well but isn’t a beer I would not go out of my way to drink.

strong malty nose, maybe a little stale (my bottle might have been old...) deep copper color, good flavor of dark malts and hops. a little thin, and the finish is astringent and sour. not bad, but not great either.

A nice malty nose with some hop character. Well rounded flavor with a smooth finish.

That's a damn good ESB. Hints of chocolate malts, really good flavor here.

Faint aroma, some spicy, herbal British hop, orange citrus and lightly sweet maltiness. Dark amber color, some sedimentation, with a fading head. Flavor profile was a little plain, definite Goldings hop flavors and a touch of toasty, caramel malt sweetness. Finish sees a slight amount of hop bitterness, some tea leaf flavors. I didn't find this one very inspiring.

Decent bitter with a nice head. Good copper color. Nice bitters in the nose and in the taste. Finishes dryly. Nice finish.