ESB
Capitol City Brewing Company

On tap, overall an unoffensive beer. Beer is orange and mildly hazy with a huge head of small off white bubbles. Some lacing, moderate to high carbonation.

Mildly malty, mildly hoppy aroma.

Beer is medium to light in body and overall mildly bitter. Minimal malt character, decent beer but nothing too special. definitely nothing extra special.

On-tap into pint glass.

Hazy copper hue with a thin light tan head that quickly settles to almost nothing. The aroma has some light toasty grain along with a bit of stale caramel. The flavor doesn't have anything that the aroma doesn't, and more on the lighter side. The hops added a little bit of a leafy herbal flavor. Medium bodied, lower carbonation.

Maybe this was toward the end of the keg? It fit into the guideline of an ESB by being sessionable, but it was also very bland. I hope this one was just at the end of its lifetime.

Appearance: Arrives at the bar with a cloudy amber color and a foamy head that leaves sheets of lace

Smell: Caramel and pears with a splash of apricot

Taste: Starts out very fruity with pear/apricot flavors and undertones of caramel; after the swallow, a fruity/earthy bitterness appears to balance the finish

Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with gentle carbonation

Drinkability: One of the best ESBs I have tasted; pushes all the right buttons

no head (stadium pour) but left webby lacing. muddy amber with touch of red.
sweet malty nose with hint of raspberry - very light and indistinct aroma otherwise.
sweet taste up-front with crisp texture and medium body - some cherry, raspberry, and pear with malty flavors and balanced hops that get aggressively bitter in the tail.
mouthfeel is unfortunately distractingly over-carbonated.
in terms of drinkability, the taste is well-done but the mouthfeel is way too tingly to make it desirable in any sense.

The pint glass arrives filled with a clouded amber beer topped with a short bone colored head of small and medium loosely packed bubbles. They dissipated at a moderate pace and left some, but not much lacing. The smell is of light, sweet hops with just a touch of grain. There are also some citrus notes, but these are reserved. The taste is initially bitter a plenty of malt filling the middle. It finishes bitter with an almost cascade-like hop bite. A bit too citrusy for my liking. Not quite the taste I was expecting. Medium bodied with smooth, modest carbonation and a gentle mouthfeel. I enjoyed drinking this one, but those hops just did not seem quite right.