Schlafly Winter ESB

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Maplewood, Missouri USA

This is one of my FAV’s!! Pours a bronzy orange whit a thick head. Very smooth taste with an excellent balance of malt and hops. Not as ’stong’ tasting as other ESB’s, but Schlafly has created a really great beer! Highly recommended!!!

Bottle courtesy of Duane, sampled on 1/10/07: Pours a transparent orange bronze with a wispy white head. Aroma of sweet toasty caramel malt with a touch of English hops. Body starts fairly full and sweet with a lightly fruity toasty caramel maltiness and a well-balanced bittersweet finish. A pretty good ESB.

Review from a sixpack. Pours a hazed amber body topped by a small offwhite head. Nice aroma of toasted malt, floral and citrus hops, and spicy rye. Taste is floral hops, balanced by toasty malts and toffee. The rye flakes add a pleasant spicy bite. Not exactly an English style ESB, but very nicely done and highly quaffable.

12oz bottle (thanks to Indra) poured a clear copper color with nice lasting white head. The aroma was sweet caramel, hops and some fruity esters from the yeast. The taste was smooth with no one flavor standing out. As it warms a small amount of the rye comes out.

Poured to a hazy reddish-orange color with medium thick, off-white head with decent lacing. Aroma was a pleasant mix of hoppy citrus fruit and a sweet earthy smell. Flavor was tasty, although I had trouble picking out anything in particular. Mouthfeel was tingly, and the palate was smooth and refreshing, but nowhere near the biter that I would expeect from an ESB. This was a good beer, although I struggle to call it either a winter beer or a bitter.

12 oz bottle via trade with someone that I can’t remeber, perhaps Duane, not sure. Using my new cooper cooler chilled the bottle in 6 minutes flat. Anyway Pours deep amber with a nice pillowly white head. Aroma clearly has a rye touch with a bit of malty hops. The taste is really very good and surpringly complex for an esb. Yum.

12oz bottle from Duane! - Thanks! - Pours hazy amber with a short offwhite head that leaves a little lace. Aromas of caramel, slight toffee, and some earthy notes. Flavor is caramel, toffee, orange, and some earthy qualities. Rather fizzy on the palate but overall a pretty drinkable brew..

Bottle from Party Town, KY. Poured hazy copper color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate sweet malty aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium sweet malty flavor with a smooth tingly bitter finish of average duration. Solid drinkable flavorful brew.