Natty Greenes Bayonet ESB

Brewed by Natty Greenes Pub & Brewing Company
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Greensboro, North Carolina USA

Date: 12/19/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

cloudy orange, fine cream colored head, can’t get much aroma, could be the fish cooking in the adjacent kitchen, creamy body, lots of great subdued hop flavor that leads to a long easy bitter finish, just enough fruity sweetness to keep it balanced and add interest, the fruity character continues to grow, the perfect ESB

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 10/10
Score: **4

on tap-pours an off white head and gold color. Aroma is mild medium malt-some sweet. Taste is medium malt-some sweet, peat, nutty, roasty, secondary/faint hops. Mild carbonation.

This pours a hazy amber body with a creamy off-white head. Like the other brews that I had at Natty Greene’s Pub, it does some lasting lacing throughout the drink. It delivers a mixed floral bouquet over a fruity, malty base. The flavor begins with sweet malts, apples, and a cherry or two. The bitter hops return and dominate with wildflowers, grapefruit and pine. The finish is a prolonged bitterness that scores solid points with this hophead. Good, good stuff.

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Poured a clear dark golden color with an off-white head. Light floral hop aroma with some caramel malt. The flavor was malty with a good stiff long moderately bitter finish. The finish was dry with a medium body.

Draught at the brewpub. Clear golden-orange color with foamy white head that laced the glass. Pleasant grapefruit hop nose and flavor that is complimented well by the toasty, fruity malt flavors. Bitterness lasts throughout, but is more intense than I expected for this style. More like an IPA, actually. Good beer.

Tap at brewpub. Gold color and sweet malty aroma. Malty taste (molasses) balanced with a fabulous bitterness. Well carbonated, very well balanced. Supremely drinkable.

Pint @ brewpub, Good aroma. Sweet, bitter. Citurs hops, little caramel and or honey. Fruit, Apple, cherry. Clean brownish orange color, good head that faded quickly, minor lacing. Bittersweet flavor, like aroma little more grapefruit about it and a plastic streak about it. Medium body, lite creamy mouthfeel, bitterdry finish. Very nice Esb. Aroma had a nice change about it as it warmed. First sweet then the citrusy bitterness toward the end.

On tap at the brewpub. Clear copper color. Was a little disappointed in the hop profile here. A bit of a sweet caramel malt flavor with a finish that is faintly bitter.