Snug Cove ESB
Bowen Island Brewing Co. Ltd.
- From:
- Bowen Island Brewing Co. Ltd.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 11.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 16, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 06, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
355ml can poured into tulip 21/10/2016
Looks good with three fingers of tan foam on top of a clear copper amber body, great retention with spider web lace. lots of caramel, herbal hops, metallic notes, some sweet bread, OK but nothing special.
Oct 22, 2016Looks good with three fingers of tan foam on top of a clear copper amber body, great retention with spider web lace. lots of caramel, herbal hops, metallic notes, some sweet bread, OK but nothing special.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml tall-boy can, a new packaging format for this contract brewing operation, at least for we Prairie-adjacent folks.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and ebulliently bubbly ecru head, which leaves a few broad swaths of chunky hoar frost lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of bready, doughy, and semi-sweet caramel malt, wet breakfast biscuits, a generic dark orchard fruitiness, some faint ashy notes, and leafy, weedy, and lightly grassy hops. The taste is grainy, crackery caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, overripe red apple skins, and weedy, herbal, and still underwhelmingly grassy hops.
The carbonation is quite soft, and yet indulgent in its supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, a slight, kind of hard to pinpoint edginess taking its proverbial ounce of flesh. It finishes well off-dry, the somewhat complex malt keeping it real, in between the ditches - solid, as it were.
Not a bad rendition of the style, and though the hops could be more pronounced, that is a long-running complaint of mine against this brand's offerings. Easy to drink, nice and cheap, and a good candidate for gateway status - yep, that's a Bowen Island brew in a nutshell.
Jun 07, 2015This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and ebulliently bubbly ecru head, which leaves a few broad swaths of chunky hoar frost lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of bready, doughy, and semi-sweet caramel malt, wet breakfast biscuits, a generic dark orchard fruitiness, some faint ashy notes, and leafy, weedy, and lightly grassy hops. The taste is grainy, crackery caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, overripe red apple skins, and weedy, herbal, and still underwhelmingly grassy hops.
The carbonation is quite soft, and yet indulgent in its supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, a slight, kind of hard to pinpoint edginess taking its proverbial ounce of flesh. It finishes well off-dry, the somewhat complex malt keeping it real, in between the ditches - solid, as it were.
Not a bad rendition of the style, and though the hops could be more pronounced, that is a long-running complaint of mine against this brand's offerings. Easy to drink, nice and cheap, and a good candidate for gateway status - yep, that's a Bowen Island brew in a nutshell.
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