Bitter Earth ESB
Arkose Brewery

 

 

The appearance was a decent looking light bronze/amber color that has a nice transparency about it. Light carbonation is seen rising at a moderate pace. There was a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute. There was barely any lacing. The aroma smelled like a normal ESB at a lighter level (definitely not a true ESB like the British do). But this one still had a nice roasted "apple-like" quality with a nice sweet malty nuttiness rolling about my nose wrapped all up into a nice conglomeration. The taste was the dry sweet maltiness that hits the tastebuds fairly hard like a good ESB should. The aftertaste is right on par for the dry and sweet part and so is the finish. On the palate, this one sits light and comes across pretty sessionable, perhaps more sessionable than most ESB’s or at least the ones the British do. Overall, I like this as a session ESB as it seemed to fit the style for the most part.

Somewhat bland and lacking flavor & body.