Squadron Commander
Tucked Away Brewing

Pours a dark amber color with a nice head but little lacing
Aroma has bready malt and slight hop hints
The taste follows the nose with a bready malt and slight hop flavor
A medium bodied decently carbonated beer
A good ESB

From the can, it pours a cloudy coppery amber color with a nice off-white head that diminishes to a modest layer and leaves lacing. In the nose, it is interesting - tea comes to mind. In the mouth, it is bready/biscuity with some caramel and the faintest hint of hops.

16 ounce can poured into a nonic style pint glass.
Canned 10/26/20

Pouring cloudy copper and packed with suspended sediment. Nose is dominated by a “standing water full of leaves” aroma. Tasting earthy, woody and bitter with toast and bready malt. There is a bit of an off flavor that coincides with the funky water aroma. Body is medium-light with lowish carbonation.
Not a fan.

 

On tap at brewery:
Sits a burnt amber in the glass with a crescent moon gradient of an off-white head. Hot air balloon lacing float above the beer’s surface on the drinking side, random globs populate the other side.

Nose is of a bitter tea - a wet fall in a light forest with the brown leaves just starting to decompose. The pungency isn’t what that description implies, though. There’s a little honey and very light herbal note to lighten things, and I’m even getting the impression of a lemon rind in some whiffs, completing the tea impression.

Taste comes with a nice body of toasted malt with just a hint of the nuttiness that a toasted grain can bring. There’s a little sneaky sweetness on the sides on my tongue, but a clean to earthy/woody bitterness starts to wipe that aside by mid-taste. A little butterscotch note sneaks in before a leafy tobacco-like bitterness cleans things up.

I could use a little drier ending and an eradication of that slight butter/scotch asiento that has a brief interlude near the end taste, but a fair ESB overall.