Old House ESB
Townshend Brewery
- From:
- Townshend Brewery
- New Zealand
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.19 | pDev: 5.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 17, 2023
- Added:
- May 09, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.84/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.84/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
$11 NZD per 425ml handpull/cask pour @ Free House, Nelson, New Zealand.
Silky smooth, light, thin. Borders on watery. Low carbonation.
Taste underwhelms. Thin malt. Faint floral hops. A kiss of diacetyl. Scintilla of buttered toast.
Not a beer I'd get again, and I don't know that it being served from a cask is doing it any favors, though I've no doubt the navel gazing CAMRA wankers obsessed with so-called real ale will gush over it just because it ticks that box.
Certainly drinkable, but shallow, simple, and even a bit insipid.
C / AVERAGE
Feb 17, 2023Silky smooth, light, thin. Borders on watery. Low carbonation.
Taste underwhelms. Thin malt. Faint floral hops. A kiss of diacetyl. Scintilla of buttered toast.
Not a beer I'd get again, and I don't know that it being served from a cask is doing it any favors, though I've no doubt the navel gazing CAMRA wankers obsessed with so-called real ale will gush over it just because it ticks that box.
Certainly drinkable, but shallow, simple, and even a bit insipid.
C / AVERAGE
Reviewed by dgilks from Australia
3.45/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Lightly fruity with toffee, biscuit and bread notes. Nice but lacking the hops of a true ESB.
Moderately clear copper colour with a smooth, creamy, off-white head. Good head retention.
Smooth and malty. A bit of biscuit and toffee but lacking in the rich, rounded complexities of most ESBs. Not particularly bitter. Creamy.
Medium body with low carbonation. Smooth and silky.
A tasty beer but lacking the depth of the best ESBs.
Aug 28, 2010Moderately clear copper colour with a smooth, creamy, off-white head. Good head retention.
Smooth and malty. A bit of biscuit and toffee but lacking in the rich, rounded complexities of most ESBs. Not particularly bitter. Creamy.
Medium body with low carbonation. Smooth and silky.
A tasty beer but lacking the depth of the best ESBs.
Reviewed by femALEist from California
3.13/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.13/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Batch #118 and it had a best by date of 10/10/10. 5.3% abv. This poured a lightly cloudy reddish orange hue. On the nose you get: spice, malt and a touch of honey. It tasted of light malt, grass, herbs, light bitterness with a light grapefruit bitterness ending. It had great drinkability.
Mar 23, 2010
Reviewed by brendan13 from Australia
3.21/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.21/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A - A slight hazy dark copper colour with 3 centimetres of off white head that slowly falls away leaving rings of lace down the glass.
S - Grassy and herbal hops with some light toffee maltiness.
T - Much like the smell; a light toffee maltiness balanced by some grasy and herbal hop notes.
M - Light bodied with mimimal carbonation.
D - An ok ESB. I guess drinking it fresher may help but this just lacked character.
May 09, 2009S - Grassy and herbal hops with some light toffee maltiness.
T - Much like the smell; a light toffee maltiness balanced by some grasy and herbal hop notes.
M - Light bodied with mimimal carbonation.
D - An ok ESB. I guess drinking it fresher may help but this just lacked character.
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