Redhook ESB

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Woodinville, Washington USA

Clear dark orange with a thin white head. Aroma is thin grainy maltiness, some caramel. Taste is strong caramel sweet malt, bready with a strong hop finish. Nice beer but more like a hoppy amber than an ESB.

pours a light copper colour grainy apple juice aroma, some maltiness. Medium malt flavour with a bit of cardboard and a light bitter finish. Bit of a let down for me.

Cloudy golden color with a medium off white head. Not bad but a little lacking on flavor and aroma. Doesn’t really taste like an ESB.

Salt...that is my main descriptor of the beer. It was not a bitter as far as I could tell. It pours beautifully and had an intriguing hop aroma but tasted like someone had dumped a pound of salt in the fermenter. Strange overall.

Ironically enough, not a very bitter beer at all. And I know from bitter, that’s why they call me bitter beardface!

Cask (gravity) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Light unclear light to medium red amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramle, fruity, vanilla notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (070808)

Meh flavors I did pick up were kind of lacking. Would be a good summer beer for grilling. Metal soapy tinge in one bottle (and I clean my glasses with hot water thats it)?

Not that bitter of a beer. An alright beer to drink. Aroma is malty, caramel and oranges. Flavor is about the same. Kind of yeasty. Light bodied, kinda boring...