Lord Rear Admiral
3 Floyds Brewing Company in Munster, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.51
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled in 8/2011. Pours slightly hazy deep golden/orange/amber/light copper color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy cream colored head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lasts. Nice dense spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big orange, red grapefruit, lemon, golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, red apple, wood, cedar, mint, peppercorn, pine, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crust, toasted biscuit, light toffee/roast/nutty, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts, fruity yeast, and earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of big orange, red grapefruit, lemon, golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, red apple, wood, cedar, mint, peppercorn, pine, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crust, toasted biscuit, light toffee/roast/nutty, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, floral, woody, minty, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of orange, red grapefruit, lemon, golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, red apple, wood, cedar, mint, peppercorn, pine, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crust, toasted biscuit, light toffee/roast/nutty, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, fruity yeast, and earthy hop flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance; and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and lightly resinous mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is an excellent ESB. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, fruity yeast, and earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish; great soft feel and not aggressive. Great balance of nicely rich dark/bready English malts, fruity English yeast, and earthy English hop flavors. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive well made style example as expected. A lot more dark malt/melanoidin qualities from the age; but held up extremely well for the style/ABV. No complaints.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
It's really good, I guess, but from an American perspective. Great body, good hopping, and appearance. But I like the British better with fuggles hops and lower carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
0.65l bottle shared with The Tasting Crew. Only my cat like reflexes saved this from fountain ingen over the table. No gusher, but wants out and it has a massive really good looking near fluffy everlasting off-white head. All this on top of a cloudy deep orangey warm body. Looks nice and smells really nice as well. Lots of malty and fruity nuances. Hard to describe this aroma. It's almost yeast nutty with a rush of red berries and sweet melon. Yeah, wish every enn could smell like this. This is tasty. Super car smelly and somewhat sweet all this without being too much. It's spot on the carbonation and it has a fantastic feeling in the mouth as well. Lots of ripe fruity touches with minerally rocks and earth. There is lots of wet rocks and even a little bit of spicy licorice here. So much flavor! My expectations were quite low before popping the cap on this, but wow. This is one amazing esb. 23.10.2013
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at a tasting. Dark orange pour, hazy, thin tan head. Smells like malt sugars and burnt caramel. The taste is bitter-sweet, with notes of malt sugars, citrus hops, some pine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Bottle: (Labeled as Lord Rear Admiral....3-19-15) Pours slightly hazy amber with a thick beige head. Spicy apricot, orange....herbal hop aroma. Flavour is herbal bitter, light fruits, caramel malt, hay/grass. Really enjoyable....a very nice, hopped-up bitter.
Kraddel (15451) reviewed Lord Rear Admiral from 3 Floyds Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thnx to belgbeergeek Pours fuzzy orange , big white foam Smells sweet , hoppy Taste is bitter , rather hoppy . Sweet , ok
Deanso (15008) reviewed Lord Rear Admiral from 3 Floyds Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75cl bottle at An ipa tasting. Thin white head. Hazy amber pour. Lovely fresh bitterness. Yummy.
Kermis (23414) reviewed Lord Rear Admiral from 3 Floyds Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Beer Temple. Slightly cloudy golden pour with small white head. Citrus hops with biscuit in aroma. Flavour brings in some caramel and fruit. Carbonation seems a little high but still a great example of the style
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Vollmundiger Hopfenantrunk mit süß blumigen Noten. Diese festigen sich im Mittelteil, in dem das Bier zudem herb wird. Das vorhandene Malz unterliegt dem Hopfen so deutlich, dass es kaum auffällt. Auch später ist der Hopfen angenehm blumig, bleibt aber der Intensität eines amerikanischen IPAs deutlich zurück – es ist wirklich die amerikanische Version eines Bitters, auch wenn das Original deutlich alkoholärmer und geschmacklich entsprechend schwächer ausfällt. Super Bier! 6/11/11/12/14/12
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Sweet apricot/orange malt and light grass/grapefruit hops aroma. Cloudy amber color with moderate head. Slightly sweet light toffee malt and moderately bitter green grass/citrus hops finish. Nice body. Excellent.