Burnside Stock Ale
Burnside Brewing Co.

Burnside Stock AleBurnside Stock Ale
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From:
Burnside Brewing Co.
 
Oregon, United States
Style:
Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
ABV:
5.8%
Score:
85
Avg:
3.75 | pDev: 8.8%
Reviews:
11
Ratings:
27
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Sep 05, 2014
Added:
Apr 07, 2011
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  1
"Burnside Stock Ale displays soft malt flavor with a delicate hop flavor and aroma. This is the perfect balance between both, creating a perfectly harmonious ale with a striking deep copper color. Made in the E.S.B tradition."

abv: 5.8% ibu's: 51
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Reviewed by mactrail from Washington

3.45/5  rDev -8%
Really distinctive nutty, woody, musty flavor. Color is just plain orange with a modest foam in the Glupener tulip. Smell of leaf mold.

Different from typical American-style ESBs. This has more of the Old Ale tang and a whiff of a German Altbier. The grainy flavor is intriguing. A touch of butter. Long bitter aftertaste is the familiar English-style spoiled fruit bitter hops. Walnut skin bitterness.

From the 22 oz bottle purchased at the brewery restaurant in Portland.
3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.0
Sep 05, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by BrewtalHonesty from Oregon

Aug 24, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by shelby415 from Oregon

Aug 03, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by chossboss from Oregon

Jul 31, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by jmccraney from Washington

Dec 27, 2013
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Reviewed by Fatehunter from Oregon

3.91/5  rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Pours a half finger of off-white frothy head on a cloudy dark straw colored body.
The aroma is a nice, if faint, grain smell. Really nice.
The taste has nice complexity and balance. Dry grain, lemon, apricot, more grain.
The texture is crisp with moderate carbonation.
A really good ale with some great flavor packed into a fairly low ABV.
Dec 07, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by jaydoc from Kansas

Nov 03, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by Kylemif from Oregon

Oct 03, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by loren01 from Washington

Aug 02, 2013
 
Rated: 4.25 by BJasny from Texas

Jun 22, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by Chris-MOC9 from Oregon

May 17, 2013
 
Rated: 4.5 by blurredline from Oregon

Apr 15, 2013
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Reviewed by Spikester from Oregon

4.02/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Clear reddish amber with a very good two finger white head. Clouds of lacing as the head recedes. Aroma is malty nice clean grains. Some earthy hops.
Taste is earthy leather hops with a nice complement of rich maltiness.
Mouthfeel is just right for this style maybe more carbonation than a British version but fine by me.
Overall an outstanding example of a style which is becoming very hard to find in the USA.
Finish is wet and moderately bitter. Well done Burnside!
Apr 04, 2013
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Reviewed by scottfrie from California

3.47/5  rDev -7.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
22oz bottle. Thanks Tim!

A: Pours amber with a short lived thin white head that faded into a faint collar.
S: Caramel, roasted grains, and lightly sweet stone fruits come through on the nose.
T: Mild taste, malty, not cloying or syrupy. I get notes of toasted and crackery malt, mild fruit sweetness, caramel, and a hint of red apple juice.
M: Soft carbonation, clean mouthfeel, medium-light body, drinks well.
O: Refreshing, no-frills. Solid all-around. I would drink this again.
Dec 17, 2012
 
Rated: 4.25 by havoc1 from Washington

Dec 06, 2012
 
Rated: 3.5 by CoryR from Oregon

Oct 05, 2012
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Reviewed by Reidrover from Oregon

3.67/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
22 oz from Capital Market,Salem. $4.99 Copper/amber coloured body with a large bubbly egg shell white head. Mainly malty aromas..caramel,hay bread.,chocolate a touch of floral hop. All the above are also in the taste..and all balanced well. Semi bitter finish. Good mouthfeel with low carbonation. Overall nice smooth beer
Sep 03, 2012
 
Rated: 3.75 by Mebuzzard from Colorado

Jul 21, 2012
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Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia

3.92/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Bottle purchased from Pearl Whole Foods in Portland Oregon.

Pours a pleasant and true-to-style burnished orange hue, with more haze than expected. However, the haze refracts the light, making the beer glow, which is rather pleasant. Head is filmy and bubbly—a soft off-white. Some lacing, but not all that persistent or extravagant. It looks decent.

Nose is mellow, but brushed with pleasant leafy, darkly herbal and earthy English hops, with a sense of nuttiness like EKG gives (they don't actually list the hop varieties on the bottle though, so that's a guess). It's fragrant for an English style, but still firmly in the tradition. Malty, grounded, almost savoury in its usage of the hops. Quite pleasant.

Taste is similar. Smooth entry, with plenty of neutral to slightly-nutty malt, before the earthy flourish of hops comes through leaving a herbal bite in the aftertaste. Bitterness is pronounced, but leaves a hole in the palate—where American high-alpha hops would cut straight through, these hops melt around the edges, letting the malt do more of the work. It's pleasant, and true to the tradition it's attempting to uphold.

Feel is a little bit weak, but it's almost there. To be honest, all it needs is to be pulled from a handpump and it'd be great.

Good stuff. I like it when American breweries do good examples of British styles without trying to Americanize them. Sure, they're duller than they might be, but let's face it: so are the Brits.
Jul 04, 2012
 
Rated: 3.75 by bluckbeyes from Oregon

May 11, 2012
Burnside Stock Ale from Burnside Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 27 ratings