San Diego House E.S.B.

Brewed by San Diego Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
San Diego, California USA

Serve in English pint

from a 22 oz bottle. Nice mild hop aroma and a pleasant blend of malt and hops. a very nice session beer

Draft at the brewery. Aromas of bready yeast. Copper in color with a smallish head. Flavors were bitter and still yeasty bread. More of a citrus finish. Just OK.

on hand pump-pours a ? head and amber color. Aroma is musty malt, earthy hops. Taste is musty, light/medium malt-some sweetness, secondary earthy/metallic hops.

At SDBC. Light amber pour smooth cask head. Not much on the nose. Metalic almost sulphur. Then a funky after taste followed by a decent bitter. Smooth palate but thin. A very different beer that just didn’t set well with me. Not terrible but lacking.

On tap (cask) @ San Diego Brewing brewpub. Pours a nice clear deep copper with thin off white head. The aroma is very mild with some malt touches. The taste begins with mild caramelized malts followed by mild hops that are tough to pin down but become moderately bitter toward the finish. Tasty brew with solid malt backbone for the style.

Date: 12/04/2007
Mode: Firkin
Source: Brewpub

clear copper, headless, sweet crystal and caramel aroma, sweet caramel malt flavor, nice light earthy bitterness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4