Great Expectations
Cabin Brewing
- From:
- Cabin Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.14 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 16, 2022
- Added:
- Jan 16, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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There's something special about malt-forward British beer once the weather turns. The sweet malt. The fruity yeast. The earthy hops. It's definitely our cup of tea, and we have high hopes that you'll feel the same way about Great Expectations ESB.
We'd never claim to be able to make a true British bitter - its taken hundreds of years to perfect that deceptively simple blend of malt, water, hops and yeast - but we're secretly excited about our interpretation of the style.
We've blended British and Albertan malts , with nothing but the finest East Kent Golding hops. You get notes of sponge toffee and golden syrup from the malt, with some earthy hop notes and faint plum and blackberry yeast esters to round it out.
Jolly good? We think so.
We'd never claim to be able to make a true British bitter - its taken hundreds of years to perfect that deceptively simple blend of malt, water, hops and yeast - but we're secretly excited about our interpretation of the style.
We've blended British and Albertan malts , with nothing but the finest East Kent Golding hops. You get notes of sponge toffee and golden syrup from the malt, with some earthy hop notes and faint plum and blackberry yeast esters to round it out.
Jolly good? We think so.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
4.14/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Beautiful clear deep copper amber pour with three plus fingers of tight puffy off white head.
Aroma is deeply rich and malty - toffee, caramel, brown sugar with fruity and floral notes on the nose.
Taste is sweet with fruity notes of plum, dark fruit admixed with prominent flavours of toffee, caramel malt and earthy and floral hops bereft of bitterness.
Smooth medium bodied - initially worried carbonation a little low but actually maintained decent throughout. Tasty and exceptionally smooth.
Jan 16, 2022Aroma is deeply rich and malty - toffee, caramel, brown sugar with fruity and floral notes on the nose.
Taste is sweet with fruity notes of plum, dark fruit admixed with prominent flavours of toffee, caramel malt and earthy and floral hops bereft of bitterness.
Smooth medium bodied - initially worried carbonation a little low but actually maintained decent throughout. Tasty and exceptionally smooth.
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