Schlafly Winter ESB

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint

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Poured a somewhat cloudy golden color with a fluffy white head. Aroma is caramel, toast, nuts, citrus, spruce, and a touch of black pepper. Taste is tangy like a melon rind, apple, cinnamon, toast, and a bittersweet finish.

Spicy and thick. Draft in St. Louis. No. Head. Golden pour. Not what I thought an esb would be. Very good

On tap at joey b in st louis...Pours brown light... hoppy aroma..taste is spicy pumpkin joy..good shit

Light copper gold pour from a bottle to tulip pub glass.Half inch head,leaving just some spitty froth. Pretty clear with very slight haze. Nose had some metallic right away that seems to disapear. Kind of oktoberfesty.Big nutty aroma with fruit and some spice I cant point out like corriander or something,celery maybe,light pepper or white pepper. Maybe some slight diacytal and dms contributing to that spice like note it seems to have. Taste takes on much of the same as aroma but with more carmel sweetness,nuttiness,some yeast,finishes kind of sweet and fruity like,maybe with a bit of spice. Some chewyness.Kind of a mild peppper like bittering.Some good smooth slickness. Malty and with a little bit sticky-sweetness,nothing cloying by any means. A bit maltier and less bitter than I was expecting.Fullish body,prettysmooth,pretty decent.

Bottle. Amber pour with a short, foamy white head. Aroma is spicy hops, sweet malt, light toffee and toasted grains. Taste is sweeter than expected with lots of sweet malt, toffee, light caramel notes, soft spicy hops, rye, and light bready notes. Soft floral hops here as well. Body is medium with a soft, creamy carbonation. Ends with more sweet malt, spicy hops, light floral hops, rye notes, light bready notes, and toffee. Nice!

Pours a slightly hazy copper with a 2 finger, creamy off white head that has great retention and leaves nice lacing. Aroma of citrus, planty and spicy hops, earthy spice, toast and a touch of caramel sweetness. Flavor is nicely spicy and citrusy up front, followed by some toast, biscuit, a little caramel, englishy yeast and some herbal, pine and bitter citrus notes to the finish. Surprisingly light and crisp body for 6.8%, moderate carbonation. Some boozy slickness comes out as it gets pretty warm, but not much and I may not have noticed had I not seen the ABV%. Damn tasty ESB, really hides its alcohol.

The appearance is copper with a thin white head, very carbonated there are bubbles coming up the glass the whole time ive been drinking it. the aroma has subtle smells of floral and citrus hops with a bread and biscuity malt aroma. The taste is sweet with malt and some hop bitterness on the back end, i am picking up a mild rye but not much. overall this is very well balanced and easy to drink.

Pretty decent sample of the Winter ESB at the Tap Room in St. Louis; nice copper color, just a hint of rye and really not very bitter at all.

12 ounce bottle from State Line. Pours a slightly hazy copper color with a large creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of citrus and herbal hops and caramel malts. The taste is caramel malts, floral and citrus hops, a creamy note from the oats. Medium bodied and refreshing. Quite a nice beer.

Poured golden color into a snifter. Once there it was more amber colored, transparent with a nice 1.5 inch white head. Muted dry hops and rich malt. Grapefruit and a bit of pine on the nose. Spicy and sweet. Great combo with a low profile of bitterness throughout. Finished clean. Great balance overall. Light to medium body and moderate carbonation. Great ESB. The rye comes through nicely and spices it up almost perfectly.