Grand Teton XX Bitch Creek Double ESB

Brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale
Victor, Idaho USA

Bottle. Pours clear tawny with an average, fizzy, light brown head, mostly lasting with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel, toffee), heavy hops (flowers, perfume, pine), average yeast (sweat, leather) with notes of grape, apple, peach, and pear. Medium bodied, sticky and mineral texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness.

1 litre swing top bottle poured a clear dark reddish brown with a lasting tan head. Aromas of toffee, burnt carmel, pine and orange zest. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of burnt carmel, toffee, cocoa, pine and light citrus with a smooth dry lingering bitter finish.

Thanks to Josh for sharing at Hopdogs. Medium deep amber with a thin lasting head and some sticky lace. Aroma is herbal and floral english hops iwth a slight hint of citrus pnw hops. Slight sweetness- some caramel and toffee flavor with a blanace of tea like and floral hops with more of that citrus orange zest note and turns a bit earthy (plastic and leather) and herbal in the end but still nice. Good malt backbone stands up to a nice earthy bitterness in the end.

Poured a dark amber color with a small, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of floral hops, pine, citrus, caramel, brown sugar, and nuts. Taste of caramel malts, tobacco, nuts, citrus fruits, molasses, grapefruit, and alcohol in the finish.

1 liter, flip top bottle, shared courtesy of Josh. Poured a deeper amber, almost brown, color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of toffee, citrus, caramel, floral, and some nuttiness. Tastes of toffee, citrus, earthy, and I was getting some chocolate. Nice. My only beef is these 1 liter bottles!

Thanks to Josh for sharing this one. Pours a nice brown with ruby notes and a large creamy off white head that left lacing. Aroma of dark fruits, caramel, molasses, nuts, orange peel and toffee. Flavor of toffee, tobacco, citrus, moderate bitterness, light earthy notes and brown sugar.

Poured dark brown with a lot of tiny grown bubbles and a massive, rocky tan/off-white head. Thick lacing. Heavy caramel and toffee aromas, some wood, licorice, and hay. Thick, viscous mouthfeel for the style. Borders on the "imperial porter" in terms of mouthfeel and taste. Lots of caramel and earthy hop resins, blended with grain and dark chocolate flavors. Bitter, yes, but not in the expected overly-golding hops way. More of a resiny-wood bite. I liked this a lot, but don’t find this to be the ESB it claims it is. More of an American SA.

1Liter bottle-pours a rich frothy tan head that laces and cloudy brown/orangy color. Aroma is great northwest resin/citrus hops, background medium malt. Taste is great northwest resin/citrus-tangerine hops, earthy, secondary medium/dark malt-roasty/slightly burnt/chocolate. An enjoyable cross of American and English, a little thin on finish.