Climax Extra Special Bitter Ale

Brewed by Climax Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Roselle Park, New Jersey USA

Cask (gravity) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Light unclear medium amber orange color with a small, virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, moderate hoppy, old apples, rubber. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (050808)

Cask@GBBF08. Orangeish amber colour, not much head. Aroma is sour fruit and wood along with some mild grassyness and yeast. Flavour is wood, grass and yeast. Finish is a bit bittery. Dry palate.

Cloudy amber with tiny off white head. Sweet fruity aroma with floral hops. Sweet flavor with caramel and mild hoppy notes leading it to a bitter end.

Cask at GBBF 08. It’s got that washing up water flavour some American beers have. Yeasty, earthy. Just very very odd.

On tap at the 2004 Kennett Square BF. Poured a medium orange color with a small head. Subtle aromas and tastes of oranges and apples. Very lightly bitter.

on tap-pours an offwhite head with copper/orange color. Aroma is malt, caramel, nutty, secondary hops. Taste follows, nice. Good carbonation

(From growler) : Undercarbonated, orange-apple juice with shy resinous bitterness...Watery peaches exemplify the bland fruitiness and the lack of malt and hops is soon felt...Not worthy of a pint...

Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - GBBF2008. A dark copper coloured beer with a decent fruity hoppy aroma. The taste is also nice and hoppy. Quite English hops. Signs of freshness diminishing, and attempts at over complication but still ok.