Jack of the Wood Green Man ESB

Brewed by Green Man Brewing (Jack of the Wood)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Asheville, North Carolina USA

Name: Extra Special Bitter
Date: 09/13/2002
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Hazy orange, slightly sweet malt aroma, medium malt body with a hint of sweetness, nice lasting long low bitter flavor,
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Date: 09/13/2002
Mode: cask
Score: iiii

Wow! Creamy velvet body, hops, hops, hops, great hop aroma, lots of mild esb hop flavor, but not ’hoppy’, fantastic until the cask was kicked, one of the top 5 casks of all time. Wow!
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Date: 08/12/2005

lots of carmel sweetness balanced by the wnderful esb bitterness, still a great esb, body is tweeked up a bit to the optimum level

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Score: **4
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(draft) Crystal clear amber body with beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, chocolate, toffee, some caramel, peach. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, caramel/toffee, light peach, earthy. Light-medium body.

on tap-pours a light tan head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel/roasty, nutty, earthy. Taste is medium malt-caramel/roasty, nutty, earthy, musty. Some detractor.

Tap at the brewpub on 2/3/08: Transparent copper orange with a wispy-lacing white head. Aroma of sweet toasty caramel malty notes and some earthy piny English hops. Body starts with good fullness and sweet toasty caramel maltiness balanced with a resiny hop bitterness. Smooth, true to style and enjoyable, a good ESB.

Draught. Pours clear mahogany with a small, fizzy, white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (straw, bread, chocolate), average hop (grass), average yeast (dough) with notes of pear and apple. Medium bodied, slick texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity, and heavy bitterness. Light chocolate, caramel notes in the flavor.

Draught at the brewpub. Had the carbonated AND cask versions. Both are a clear copper color with off white head that laced the glass. Sprucy hop nose. Flavor is a bit more balanced with the addition of earthy note and light skunky tone. Eh. The cask version smells a bit better with no improvement in the flavor.

On tap at the Jack of the Wood. They now rate this at 5.3% abv with 32 IBU’s. Amber color. No head. Extremely earthy. Tastes like worms. Not a good beer. Supposed to be fuggles hops here, but you can neither smell or taste them.

Cloudy brown - woodsy and grassy aroma, with a nice smokey edge. Flavor is toasty and smokey, with an earthy edge, plus a pleasent hoppy finish. Nice session ale.