Score
6.88
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Où, Quand, Comment : Bouteille, dégustée le 7/5/2013.
Visuel : Couleur : orangée-cuivrée. Apparence : voilée.
Arôme : Caramel, biscuits, léger de fruits (petits fruits) et de houblon herbeux aux notes terreuses, notes de pain.
Goût : Entrée de bouche : Léger goût fruité (marmelade) avec quelques notes épicées. Une dominante maltée de caramel sucré est présente avec une légère amertume de houblon herbeux aux notes florales, citriques et terreuses ainsi qu’avec des notes de biscuits et de pain grillé.
En bouche : Corps : moyen. Effervescence : moyenne. Texture : légèrement huileuse. Finale : moyenne, composée d’une légère amertume de houblon herbeux, légèrement floral et terreux avec des notes épicées.
Bottle. Caramel malt, spicy rye, and light piney orange hops aroma. Hazy amber with a large ivory head, suspended flocculation. Bready malt, rye, and herbal hops flavor. Medium body and carbonation.
Tap @ Schlafly St. Louis. Pours a clear, dark orange appearance with a tan head. Sweet grapefruity, lightly floral, orange aroma. Sweet orange blossom, toasted malty, slightly floral flavor. Pretty good.
Draft. Deep golden color, small white head, solid lacing. Aroma of white pepper. Taste is bitter and peppery, a proper bitter, but with fuller body.
Bottle. Sweet apple, cherry, and barley malt aroma. Amber color with moderate head. Sweet apple, barley malt and moderately bitter hay hops flavor. Okay.
bottle thanks to Creedon, pours hazy purple/reddish brown with a medium fluffy white head, lots of nice lacing, head is persistent. Nose is full of noble hops, toast and nutty malts. Flavor is rich upfront with pepper, toasted malts, citrus juice sourness, some rye coming through. Ends with a pepper and grassy hop finish that lingers with more of the malty character. Good stuff.
Sample from someone at HBF, thanks someone! Murky amber body. Malty, somewhat hoppy aroma, jam-like malty notes in the taste. As rosenbergh said, this wasn’t all that fresh and it showed in a way. I guess a rerate is pending.
Bottled@HBF2009 (Thanks Tomas Czarnecky!). Hazy golden colour, mediumssized white head. Grassy and hoppy aroma along iwth some caramel malts, biscuits and mild fruityness. Flavour is grassy/fruity hops with big dryness to it. Also caramel malts giving it some sweetness. Wellbalanced and drinkable ESB.
Hop in the City: The rye flakes are noticeable in both the aroma and flavor and I wasn’t so sure they added much to this flavorful bitter. But they did add another dimension and that’s always interesting. The aroma, besides the rye, was filled with floral hops and malts. The flavor, below the rye, was of malts with a nice bitter aftertaste from the hops.
Bottled. Amber coloured. Grassy flowery hop aroma. Very malty. Saltyand resiny with really bitter finish. A more than solid ESB.