Capitol ESB
Great Waters Brewing

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Great Waters Brewing
 
Minnesota, United States
Style:
Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
ABV:
Not listed
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.26 | pDev: 5.21%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 2
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jun 28, 2003
Added:
Jul 19, 2002
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by tavernjef from Minnesota

3.43/5  rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
On Cask: Super nice deep copper color with a inch high head of dark creamy puffy oatmeal, settles slow to a nice ring and lace in tiny rings and spots. Smell is dullish fruit salad, peach, melon, and grapes, with a slight note of fresh floral hops. Taste is quite mellow, slightly sweet malts and gringy hops that favors floral freshness and piney bitterness thats very subdued. Feel is a bit empty, thin start leading to medium-light body and a bit of a light grainy texture, weak finish for a ESB, no strong bitterness, slightly lingers of what it does offer. Another Great Waters brew that needs a pep.
Jun 28, 2003
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Reviewed by ADR from Pennsylvania

3.09/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Spot-on pale brown color for style. Downward cascade of bubbles is nice. Head is a pale 1/4 inch of medium-bubbled foam. Really, almost no aroma, a little sweetness. Just the slightest hint of a hard-roasted bitterness and some hop but there's practically no other flavor to speak of. I sucked hard on this just to get something of a malt profile. Missing a lot of flavor characteristics for an ESB. Disappointing, the Porter and Bitter remain the winners at Great Waters to me.
Jul 19, 2002