Schlafly Winter ESB

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

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.

Bottle. Color is a copper/orange with a small head. Aroma is slighty sweet with a touch of a scotch like smokey peat quality. Flavor is really well done. There is a nice sweet malt body... caramel seems like a cliche description, but I can’t come up with anything better. This gives way to a full finish of bitter that has a slightly earthy peat flavoring to it. Hops are there but balance very well with the spicey and earthy tones. Supremely well done and hides its ABV well.

Nice amber pour with a decent head, quite carbonated. Sweet, with some spice to it, hopped finish, very drinkable. Thanks to Duane for the bottle!