Britannia ESB
Siding 14 Brewing Company
- From:
- Siding 14 Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.69 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 16, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 15, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - once again, nothing about the liquid inside on the label, but still the long, rambling story of the railroad in Ponoka.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and biscuity cereal malt, some indistinct dark fruitiness, faint earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, herbal, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and crackery pale malt, wet breakfast biscuits, a hint of free-range smokiness, bruised apple and pear, some damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with just a touch of wispy ash maybe making a minor dent in the proceedings here. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity Alberta malt exhibiting its lingering fervour.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough rendition of the old-school style, one which happens to count itself among my favourites. Siding 14 does well to emulate the subtly required (and expected), as opposed to hopping the hell out of it. Good stuff!
Oct 16, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and biscuity cereal malt, some indistinct dark fruitiness, faint earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, herbal, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and crackery pale malt, wet breakfast biscuits, a hint of free-range smokiness, bruised apple and pear, some damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with just a touch of wispy ash maybe making a minor dent in the proceedings here. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity Alberta malt exhibiting its lingering fervour.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough rendition of the old-school style, one which happens to count itself among my favourites. Siding 14 does well to emulate the subtly required (and expected), as opposed to hopping the hell out of it. Good stuff!
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