Great Divide HotShot ESB

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

Ok, so nothing really special about this beer, but nothing bad about it either. Very average ESB. No kick, but no aftertaste either.

Hazy copper colored liquid. Thin white head. Medium malty nose. Tangy medium dry with some fruit type kick. Finishes herbally and mildly sweet.

Somewhat hazy orange/amber color with a thin cream colored head. Bright nose of candied orange peel, pine and honey. I wouldn’t call this an English ESB. Lots of citrus hop flavors, orange peel, apple juice, with a grassy finish. Okay beer. May be better with food.

Not anything to write home about. Tastes like a slight variation of the big three of Great Divide, which are the pale ale, ESB, and amber. A strong hop presence with low/ medium malt levels. There is always a earthiness in all three. IMHO, the IPA is the only beer I would bother with if is not one of Great Divide’s "big beers".

Clear honey orange hue. Almost rocky almost white head, mostly lasting, leaving nice creamy lace. Herbal, sweet, faint citrus, pine hop nose. Caramel malts stand up in front, medium bodied palate, light fruit, citrus and juicy herbal hops through the finish. Clean and simple, a bit on the boring side, but quite quaffable nonetheless. This goes well with pub fare, especially spicy stuff. These guys produce some awesome beers, and some mediocre ones as well.

clear gold, floral ester nose, water palate, nice and dry bitter finish, and a whole mess of words that i cant make out in my note pad

In the tradition of Rogue’s Brutal Bitter, this one is an english style bitter in name only. A blast of citric and piney american hops greets the nose, tingles the palate, washing down with a fairly clean and lightly caramelized malt character.

Pours med. amber w/lite head. Aroma is slightly oxidized w/some cookie malts and lite hops. Med. Lite body. Oxidized flavors w/ some lite hops and lite diacetyl. Drying bitterness. BLAND.