Father ESB
Village Brewery
- From:
- Village Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 1.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 27, 2017
- Added:
- May 28, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by staubot from Canada (MB)
3.65/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.65/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Clean medium copper appearance with some carbonation showing. Head was rather flat but kept a film which lasted awhile and would give lacing. Scent was rather, well, not much of anything unless you wanted to take creative liberties. Bit of a metallic dactyl scent. Taste comes up front with a maleness but quickly hits on hops and leaves a nice breadiness after. Feels smooth with some creaminess. Great job on the style but a bit lacking in balance and the head and scent lacking as well leave it short of the highest marks for me. Presentation and ideal for the bottle gives a bonus.
Aug 27, 2017
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Overall, this is a decent looking beer. Nice colour with a tawny head that hangs around happily. The smell is a bit tinny for my tastes, but I often find that the case with an ESB. Overall, the malt and hops meld nicely into a tasty brew, with caramel malt and a saison-like spice dominating the taste. The mouthfeel is creamy and absolutely on point for an ESB. This is a tasty brew, worthy of many dads I've met.
Jun 07, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.72/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - this year's ode to Father's Day, and dedicated to something called the 'Airdrie Dads'.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves a spatter of sudsy islet lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of indistinct pome and citrus fruitiness, mild yeasty notes, and some very plain leafy, weedy, and musty floral noble hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a lesser bready caramel sweetness, some mildly edgy and peppery yeastiness, underripe red apples, and more tame earthy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hops.
The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, just a wee yeasty incursion maybe marring the fresh paint job a tad here. It finishes trending dry, the crackery malt and muddled old-school hops joined at the lingering hip.
Overall, this is an agreeable and approachable version of the style, with a reserved take on the hoppy side of things, which I suppose is more proper than overdoing it in aping an IPA. At any rate, straightforward, and easy to put back, all the while sending thanks to the good Dads of the world (pats self on back).
May 30, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves a spatter of sudsy islet lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of indistinct pome and citrus fruitiness, mild yeasty notes, and some very plain leafy, weedy, and musty floral noble hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a lesser bready caramel sweetness, some mildly edgy and peppery yeastiness, underripe red apples, and more tame earthy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hops.
The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, just a wee yeasty incursion maybe marring the fresh paint job a tad here. It finishes trending dry, the crackery malt and muddled old-school hops joined at the lingering hip.
Overall, this is an agreeable and approachable version of the style, with a reserved take on the hoppy side of things, which I suppose is more proper than overdoing it in aping an IPA. At any rate, straightforward, and easy to put back, all the while sending thanks to the good Dads of the world (pats self on back).
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