Great Divide HotShot ESB

Formerly brewed at Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Denver, Colorado USA

This beer pours a glossy burnt orange, I poured softly and still put forth a thick 2 in head beige in color. The aroma is fruity, the smell is grapey a similar smell to the fermentation room in a winery with a bitter aspect. The taste is good, clean, light carbonation. The feel on the palate is tannic mildy bitter but balanced with a caramel malty sweetness that finishes mildy. Great beer fantastic style.

Bottle: Its got hops, like most evey Great Divide I’ve had. Thats the aroma for sure, although sweet smelling malts dominate it. There is also some honey maybe, wheat, pine/mountainy. The appearence is a deep gold, almost like a cider, could have been the shipping, the storing (at store), the batch or somethign, but WAY too much head (dirtyish brown)had to pour for a solid 15 mins. The flavor is sweet, in particular the finish. Quite nice. Some definite citrus in the flavor. Also some hops.

Copper in color, medium sized white head. Sweet malt aroma up front with faint hop bitters showing up. Falvor again sweet malt with a citrus hop bite taking over through the middle. Orange and grapefruit zest prevelant. Maybe a little hoppier than the standard esb, but decent nonetheless.

Bottle-It poured with an explosive, large foamy head, could have been the bottle, could have been me, don’t know. The color was a heavy yellow. It is an hoppped up ESB, but I like it as the hops were well balanced with the malts to give your lips and tongue a good feel with the good taste.

Pours amber with a two-finger white head. Hoppy aroma, with toffee and caramel notes. Bready flavor, with a sharp hop finish. Not bad for the style.

Highly hopped version of the ESB. Very nice hop aroma and some basic citrus hop flavors, backed with decent malt. This could be a crowd pleaser, but tastes pretty much like any other American ESB. Standard fare, but tasty nonetheless.

This beer has a good strong hoppy smell with the presence of grapefruit being detected in the background. It is an orangish corn color with a good head. This beer offers a dry bitter taste of hops that dries the tongue out and tingles the palate. The flavor of hops lingers well leaving a mild bitterness in the throat.

Poured a hazy orange with a fluffy white head. Hoppy nose, mostly of pine. Very easy drinking, with fresh orange marmalade and biscuits on the front with a clean finish. Really fresh and enjoyable session beer.