JesseM (660), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Aug 22, 2007 568ml bottle. Pours the typical deep orange-red, with a small cap, that’s dense and lasts. The aroma is mostly malts, fruity, with some alcohol. The taste is pretty much the same with a fruity after-taste and a minor hop presence. It’s dry for sure, and the ever so slightly higher alcohol content is actually sort of evident. Decent but not out of this world. The aroma is actually pretty unpleasant. I don’t understand the high score, maybe I’m just not a fan of this style. cab (861), Denmark Aug 18, 2007 Can.50cl. Realy nice Esb, it got all that it takes to be real nice, fine head, right color, good bitterness, long after taste. mar (1740), Rowlett, Texas, USA Aug 12, 2007 not any real flavor at all and not really much of a smell. tasted more like water than anything. Furseth (1328), Kungälv, Sweden Aug 10, 2007 Bottle: Clear deep amber/red colour, nice creamy head. Aroma of malt,citric,caramel/burned sugar. Flavor has a smouth coffee,dark choclate,and caramel mouth feeling.Thin to medium body,and has a medium finish. Nice gilvanblight (390), Windsor, Ontario, Canada Aug 9, 2007 Nice clear redish brown pouer with a bubbly light tan head. Malts and spices in the aroma. A bit of an earthy nose. Very rich taste. Very thick, lots of flavour. Strong malts, caramel, grains, spices, some sweet fruit in the aftertaste. Rather complex ale. Rather good as well. Not sure I could session this. thornecb (1735), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA Aug 7, 2007 Pours dark amber into an English pint. Offwhite micro head subsides to fully skim surface. Fig and caramel aromas. Thin caramel with a dry, lasting bitter finish. jacobwennbom (274), Uppsala, Sweden Aug 5, 2007 (Notes from memory). Very refreshing. Bitter, malty, balanced. I thought it tasted a bit as if remains of yeast was still in the bottle (a sort of sourish sensation), allthough I am pretty sure that in fact was not the case. However, I liked it and I liked the beer a lot more than I thought I would. mephisto (1144), Taiwan Aug 2, 2007 copper hue with beige head, the aroma is dominated by chocolate with caramel tone blended in alcohol. fruity flavor and coffee in the background, the body is firm enough to balance the relatively high hop rate. a beer to nurse on.
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