Stoudts Scarlet Lady Ale ESB

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

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.

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.

So so ish. Very thin body, fairly decent hops. Not all that much flavor overall. Not the best from Stoudts.

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.

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…

12oz. bottle. Clear copper color with a medium off white head. Caramel malt aroma with some hops and a bit of biscuits. Flavor is mildly sweet malt, caramel and a touch of citrus hops.

Chestnut in color (pale brown). Creamy, tan colored head. Very english aroma= earthy hops with a woody character, some toasted caramel, soft bakers chocolate, milk, high-dried bicuity malt, and a diacetyl/estery aroma. Flavor is biscuity malt with some residual sweetness and a touch of toasted caramel. More malt dry than hop bitter. Total palate experience starts with an initial and noticable bitterness underneath the dry-biscuit, full-bodied malt, then the diacetyl/esters takes charge then turns to soft, rich malt and great hop flavors then finishes with an acute sense of itself as an English-style ale.

This was a beer that improved as it warmed. It poured with a decent head, albiet with large bubbles that foretold a short lived head. The aroma is good but not very strong, with hints of esters and caramel. The flavor is smooth and malty, with a dry finish- hops are in the background here. Less impressive than the Belk’s I had last night, but good.