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Bridgeport ESB
BridgePort Brewing Co. / Brewpub
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- From:
- BridgePort Brewing Co. / Brewpub
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 9.44%
- Reviews:
- 143
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 22, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 14, 1998
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 1
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Offa:
Reviewed by Offa from California
4.68/5 rDev +19.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.68/5 rDev +19.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
I finally got this cask conditioned at Bridgeport itself.
It is copper with a medium, solid pale tan head shrinking very slowly to a very foamy ring and some nice lace.
Aroma is mellow but very firm, very peppery-spicey and citrusy with firm caramelly toasted grain and bread underneath.
Taste is fairly complex, well-rounded, balanced. It is very leafy-woody with caramelised toastiness and light malty sweetness up front soon joined by more spicey-peppery bitterness, juiciness, and hints of citrus, cherry, and yeastiness, all married nicely together in the finish. It is flavourful but highly drinkable. Fell is firm but lively.
Aug 18, 2010It is copper with a medium, solid pale tan head shrinking very slowly to a very foamy ring and some nice lace.
Aroma is mellow but very firm, very peppery-spicey and citrusy with firm caramelly toasted grain and bread underneath.
Taste is fairly complex, well-rounded, balanced. It is very leafy-woody with caramelised toastiness and light malty sweetness up front soon joined by more spicey-peppery bitterness, juiciness, and hints of citrus, cherry, and yeastiness, all married nicely together in the finish. It is flavourful but highly drinkable. Fell is firm but lively.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.5/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a hazy burnt orange almost light brown color with a cap of a little white foamy head. Sly roaming speckled lace. The aroma had the Fuggles sweet to estery floral/herbal qualities coming across the malts somewhat in an acceptable "soapy" fashion. Biscuit sweet malts plead their case for the balance. The flavor blends all of the previously aromas together mostly sweet with that smooth soapiness coming into flow in the aftertaste and finish. The palate was almost medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine. Pretty smooth all around. Overall, as an ESB, it works, I get it and don’t mind it.
Jun 22, 2017Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.78/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
One of the more orange colored offerings in the ESB department. Comes in at a full one inch in height, the retention is phenomenal. Not only was the color orange, but the aroma was citrus orange like as well.
Taste had good bitterness, but caramel also helping to give the orange appearance from those malts here. A little thicker and more bitter than a traditional esb.
I'm plenty fine with this beer, good price, good format, would bang again.
Nov 14, 2016Taste had good bitterness, but caramel also helping to give the orange appearance from those malts here. A little thicker and more bitter than a traditional esb.
I'm plenty fine with this beer, good price, good format, would bang again.
Rated by OKCNittany from Oklahoma
3.87/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
3.87/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
from old notes
May 18, 2016
Bridgeport ESB from BridgePort Brewing Co. / Brewpub
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
162 ratings
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