Extra Terrestrial Bitter
948 Brewing Company Ltd
- From:
- 948 Brewing Company Ltd
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2023
- Added:
- Jul 30, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beersnake from California
3.75/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a can at fridge temp. Pours a nice murky light brown with a LOT of head. Took about 15 minutes to actually pour the beer. Tons of lacing. The nose is bitter hops, leather, oak, an earthy note, grass, and some malts. The taste is subtle hops, some toffee, oak, and a bit of citrus peel. Really smooth and enjoyable.
Apr 07, 2023
Reviewed by Switz_007 from Canada (AB)
4.87/5 rDev +19.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
4.87/5 rDev +19.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
Bought a growler from Craft Beer Nation in Red Deer, I think I was the first person to get a pour from it.
This is probably my favorite example of this style I've ever had. Granted, I'm just an average guy, but the slighty fruity notes from the hop profile rather than sticking with the usual noble hops really elevates this beer to the top echelon for me. Perfectly balanced with the bready and biscuity malt backbone. Truly next level stuff.
Aug 02, 2019This is probably my favorite example of this style I've ever had. Granted, I'm just an average guy, but the slighty fruity notes from the hop profile rather than sticking with the usual noble hops really elevates this beer to the top echelon for me. Perfectly balanced with the bready and biscuity malt backbone. Truly next level stuff.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.58/5 rDev -12%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev -12%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store, who really need to re-assess the stickers that they use to seal these things. Contract brewed at Red Bison in Cowtown.
This beer pours a murky, medium copper amber colour, with two gaunt fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly tan head, which leaves some random streaky and splattered lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of bready and biscuity caramel malt, a bit of stewed pome fruitiness, faint estery yeast, and some earthy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, a touch of biscuity toffee sweetness, some damp minerality, muddled domestic citrus rind, underripe pears, and more leafy, musty, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a touch of yeast astringency taking a minor chunk out of the veneer at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the biscuity character directing the lingering traffic.
Overall - this is an enjoyable enough version of the style, one which at least brings the biscuity malt character any aficionado might be expecting. They could clean up the dusty corners (yeah, I'm one to talk), and then this could count itself among the best of the admittedly few ESBs being made in the province.
Jul 30, 2018This beer pours a murky, medium copper amber colour, with two gaunt fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly tan head, which leaves some random streaky and splattered lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of bready and biscuity caramel malt, a bit of stewed pome fruitiness, faint estery yeast, and some earthy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, a touch of biscuity toffee sweetness, some damp minerality, muddled domestic citrus rind, underripe pears, and more leafy, musty, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a touch of yeast astringency taking a minor chunk out of the veneer at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the biscuity character directing the lingering traffic.
Overall - this is an enjoyable enough version of the style, one which at least brings the biscuity malt character any aficionado might be expecting. They could clean up the dusty corners (yeah, I'm one to talk), and then this could count itself among the best of the admittedly few ESBs being made in the province.
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