golubj (1035), Redwood City, California, USA Oct 10, 2008 Can, thanks to kosko20. Amber pour, some white head. Aroma is lightly toasted grainy malt, and grass. Slightly sweet and fruity malt flavor, some more of the toasted grain, and grassy / earthy hops. Lightly bitter finish. Decent beer. DougShoemaker (2614), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Oct 2, 2008 Aroma is orange with some underlying malt, amber, pours a small custard head. Softer flavour of orange and malt than the nose suggested. Light bodied, well balanced. Very good example. Thanks Eric from Biergotter. fonefan (4871), Ulfborg, Denmark Oct 2, 2008 Can 50cl. @ chris_o’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008. Clear medium amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (020808) Two_Dudes (25), Louisville, Kentucky, USA Oct 1, 2008 Not sure how to take this one. Thin body with hops in the forefront. But, the hops seemed...off somehow. Had this right after a can of Furious, so I am not sure how anything could have held up. Drnk_McDermott (1564), Downers Grove, Illinois, USA Sep 24, 2008 16 oz. can, gotta love that. Pours a healthy head over a bright orange beer, with a few active columns of bubbles. Nice apricot and grass hop smell. Foam settles to a rocky head as I write this. Certainly the hoppiest tasting ESB I’ve found in my relatively few tastes of this style. A more grassy taste of fresh hops in the front of the tongue, basic bitterness in the back. Yet the malt base seems to me a little lacking. Sure, that’s partly due to its lower alcohol, but it kind of turns watery and metallic. A few other raters noted this, I see, and put it down to being served too cold, and I did pull this from the fridge. I can’t bring myself to rate this too highly for now, but I have more I can try under different conditions.
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