 elnadeau (786), Laguna Niguel, California, USA
Sep 10, 2005 Taster at the Stone 9th Annversary Festival. Nice amber pour, malty bread aroma. A middle of the road ESB, good and something good to have when you are hopped out, but I can name several better in this style.
kumite56 (461), Cordova, Tennessee, USA
Sep 1, 2005 A nice beer. Attractive amber color with a nice off white and lasting head. Aroma is buisquit and floral aroma. Palate is a little light but for an ESB it is not overly bitter. Nicely balanced but not very robust.
fatty (363), Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 15, 2005 Ruby brown, caramel, copper body with medium carbonation and thin tan head. Sweet hoppy candy aroma. Bitter hoppy flavor, full body, clean finish.
Firemoose15 (540), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 15, 2005 On draught at the brewpub. Aroma of malt and apricot. Arrived to me a copper tinge with a thin head. Flavor was basic, sweet malt and buttery a light hop to finish. Palate was ok could have been a little more bitter.
MAP (1085), Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Aug 14, 2005 Here goes nothing, well $3.99 anyway. This 750 says best by 10-01-02. Thats like three years ago. If nothing else, this can be used as a marinade. Popping the cap...iyeailds not that pleasing of a scent. Nice enough pour, slow growing head and copper body. The pour-opened aroma is a soft banana and yeast, somehwat oxidized. Flavor is really not that bad for its age. The beer is somewhat subdues from the careless aging, but there still is some well rounded malt hinding back there. Sadly, this gets a bit sour rather quickly. Palate has suffered a good deal as well. Over all I would give this older version somewhere a 3.1, so a 3.3.6 rating seems reasonable for it.
MattShizzle (385), Bernville, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 30, 2005 So so ish. Very thin body, fairly decent hops. Not all that much flavor overall. Not the best from Stoudts.
jmuhops (663), Winchester, Virginia, USA
Jul 24, 2005 Pours dark amber with a very nice two-finger head. Sweet, fruity, and malty aroma with a dash of earthy hops. Very English flavor—biscuity, earthy, buttery, and a touch of hops to round it out. Good un-Americanized ESB. They did what they could with the style.
iwantalambic (1385), St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Jul 19, 2005 12 oz bottle: clear ruby-brown with a slowly diminishing ivory head. Sweet, plumy malt aroma, sticky with caramel, raisins, and lightly honeyed alcohol. A bit of dusty grain and sand noticeable as well. Soft, only lightly carbonated palate delivers a fair bit of chewy malt flavours accompanied by vanilla beans, slightly stale orange rinds, strawberries and hints of chocolate. A very tasty beer, even if it doesn’t remind me of other ESB’s I have tried…
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