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Sweetwater ESB

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Serve in English pint

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RATINGS: 90   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.34   EST. CALORIES: 168   ABV: 5.6%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
A cutting edge English Style Bitter with a mellow hop finish. Experience this medium bodied ale with it's complex combination of six malts balanced by four hop varieties.

2.4
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
Oakes (9997) - Gibsons, British Columbia, CANADA - DEC 17, 2002
Light bronze; sour apple & medicine aroma; curranty hops late - centennial maybe? Uneventful.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Radek Kliber (5171) - Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), POLAND - DEC 16, 2002
White head, light brown with some orange scent. Average look. A bit perfumy high on hopps .Not that bad. Bitter. Uff

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
DougShoemaker (3149) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - DEC 16, 2002
Zesty orange hops aroma, amber, small vanilla head. Very hoppy, citrus flavours, touch of malt, lots of zing in the bitterness. Fairly nice beer, not sure it’s a Bitter though.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
mrkimchee (1414) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - NOV 17, 2002
pours amber with a fluffy, lacy white head. toasty, appley malt aroma. clean malty flavours with hints of caramel. mouth filling tangy hop finish lingers. nice.

3.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
jsquire (2461) - St. Marys, Ohio, USA - OCT 8, 2002
Golden yellow with a white fluffy head. Nice sweet malt profile with citrus hop flavors rounding out the flavor. Almost orange flavored in the finish. Very clean and tasty. I wouldn’t have identified it as an ESB though.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
DaSilky1 (2570) - San Diego, California, USA - OCT 5, 2002
UPDATED: FEB 22, 2003 poor hop buds drowning in carmel syrup..good looking with nice froth..but the style bores me..apples and carmel..apples and carmel..wippidy do da

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
Schroppfy (2319) - Łódż, Warsaw, Poland; Michigan, Ohio, USA - SEP 29, 2002
Far hoppier than expected, sweetly malty at the finish in a nice way...a bit nontraditional (well, not so English, anyway). The company was great at the bar by the time this one came along, and things were just beginning!

4.5
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 19/20
TheBeerCollector (599) - Woodstock, Georgia, USA - SEP 28, 2002
ReRate: The more I drink of this award winning beer the more I like it. Copperish orange color. Well balanced aroma and flavor. Yet another great beer from this Georgia brewery.


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Beer: Sweetwater ESB Rating Avg: 3.34 No. of Ratings: 90
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