Blue Ridge (MD) ESB Red Ale

Brewed by Wild Goose LLC (Flying Dog)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Frederick, Maryland USA

Sept. 2006 - Another good effort from the Blue Ridge folks. Pour was amber colored with decent head and some lacing. The aroma was citrusy. The flavor was caramel, bready sweet with a citrusy hop bite. Well balanced. Good bee

Found this offering at a wedding last night. Pours amber/red (go figure) with a nice thick head that takes a little time to die down. Smells predominantly of hops with a little fruit and malt. Starts out tasting of a little malt and fruity followed by a kick of hops. Finishes dry and bitter. Mouthfeel is very smooth with some nice body and carbonation. A seviceable brew, especially for a wedding. Worth a try.

Had this beer on 9/14/1999. Aroma is malty. Color deep amber. Taste tangy, crisp and bitter. Starting with a light body that goes down with a crisp malt flavor . Finish is a sharp bitterness.

Name: Blue Ridge ESB Real Ale
Date: 01/01/1994
Mode: Draft
Source: Capitol City, DC

Good strong bitter. Makes a statement.

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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Bottle. Aroma is caramel and biscuit, sweet and malty. Light flowery fruitiness. Pours a hazy, coppery amber with a short-lived tan head. Medium-light bitterness is slightly exceeded by a rounded sweetness. Mild fruitiness with light floral hops. Medium body with a smooth (almost creamy), lightly prickly mf that calls for attention. Dry, slightly hoppy aftertaste. Not bad at all!

A pretty good hometown beer, I sampled poured from the bottle. The color was a dark orange-reddish with a thin tan head. The beer tastes pretty bitter with a slight touch of malty sweetness; it is also mildly sour.The aroma is dominantly malty with a possible hint of fruityness. It had fizzy carbonation and a medium body with a slick texture. The most inventive and rewarding of the Blue Ridge beers I have sampled so far.

A pretty good ESB - I just had a keg of Stoudt’s Scarlet Lady ESB in my beer meister and I actually wish I had had this one instead. It has a nice reddish color and very good flavor. I don’t think ESB is one of my favorite styles anymore, but this one was rather drinkable, all the same.

From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with a short blurb on the left side of label and a unmarked best before date on the right side. Made a satisfactory appearance, poured an amber hued copper with a foamy, clingy white head that settled into a thin bubbly lacing, good carbonation. Had a piney, earthy, lemony grassy nose with a sweet grainy malt background. A smoothly bitter, crisp light bodied mouth feel, good drinkability. Tobacco and earthy grassiness with a touch of lemon, a gentle rolling hop bitterness, balanced by a sweet, toasted barley maltiness with a light butteriness creeping in and a sweet malty and tobacco grassy finish, very tasty. A decent ESB from Blue Ridge, a tad too light bodied for me, but very quaffable.