Blue Ridge (MD) ESB Red Ale

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

A sort of red ale/ESb hybrid. Pours medium heady with a reddish color. Tastes bitter like an ESB but also with a caramel/toffee sweetness at the finish. Like sweet and sour pork. The first ESB/red hybrid I've had, and a wonderful style. Very nice.

Pours a light amber with lively carbonation. Aroma is earthy hops and light bready malt. Flavor is well balanced, if unexciting. Finish is relatively clean and smooth. No complaints-a well-made beer from the Frederick Brewery.

A decent beer in the sampler, not a great brew, it's got a good bitterness, but not a consistent product.

Although not as bitter as a typical ESB, I like this one alone or with beef. Dark amber to red in color, with only a thin head. Drank this one down so fast I have to open another. Sweet honey-vanilla aroma is balanced by a bitter tang. Overall I greatly enjoy this one.

An inviting reddish color, but after drinking a sixpack of this beer, I still can't decide if I like it. The beer didn't have the real bitter I expect from an ESB, but rather a slightly bitter, slightly sweet, mainly dry palate that caught me offguard. Goes well with popcorn or other greasy food that washes the dryness down, didn't enjoy it much by itself.

a pretty straight forward filtered session product. brilliant copper like a flag pole eagle; foam is like the wrapping paper on a christmas present: pretty for a second, then gone and forgotten. orange and vanilla highlight the modest updraft of aromas, some dough as well, to be generous. brisk carb, thin bodied. suitable for quaffing, some bitterness that could be called "extra special" only if you say it like mr. rogers. lightly cakey sweetness, like a fig newton neutered-- that is, without the figs, only the newton. very decent, i think i just craved something a bit more substansial.

Redish, copper colored with a head that crosses the glass. Not much of an aroma. Flavor is sweet, like carmel, I don't taste much of the malt and the hops were about right for my tastes in ESB. Somewhat dry finish for as sweet as it is. Good Beer.

Bright amber , small head . Very nice fresh hop aroma with light malty finish . Flavours got nice depth m not only hoppy but also nicelly made malt is found . Nice range ...