Motor Boat
Sweetwater Brewing Company in Atlanta, Georgia, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.85
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Our titillating version of an ESB!
Built for speed and comfort, this baby will slap you silly as soon as you hit the throttle.
Dive in with your eyes wide open, you old sailor you!
Built for speed and comfort, this baby will slap you silly as soon as you hit the throttle.
Dive in with your eyes wide open, you old sailor you!
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4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle. Served without a glass, so I can’t see the color - and no head, of course. Aroma is a tough one too, maybe light grass? Taste is lemon, straw. Inoffensive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2013
at 20:53
8/10
Tried
on 14 Oct 2012
at 16:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap. Pours hazy amber brown with a small tan head and some lacing. Aroma is grass, hay, caramel. Taste is about the same, herbal and with a light rye spiciness, lightly sweet, light bitter, lightly astringent.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2012
at 12:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear amber orange with a tan head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has some earthy citrus hops with notes of earthy grain and hay. Flavor starts with earthy hay and grass with a hint of grapefruit in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Aug 2012
at 14:51
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle. Red-orange. Respectable steady beige head. Big caramel/amber malt aroma, thick crystal/specialty malts. Kind of watery, soapy, with no real follow through. English yeast..fruity/fishy. Really quite an amateur production, not impressive as a US or UK ESB. Sweetwater certainly seems more and more like a gimmicky brewery from the 90s.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2011
at 23:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On draught at the Sweetwater ATL bar. Pours a clear amber color with a medium thin and somewhat fizzy white head that evaporates steadily to a film. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel and mild hops. Medium body with a sweet caramel malt character and notes of grassy hops and citrus. The finish is malty with a lingering sweetness left behind. Decent ESB overall.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2011
at 10:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours amber color with off white head. Aromas of caramel and floral hops. Sweet caramel flavor with some hop bitterness. Medium body with average carbonation.
Tried
on 12 Nov 2011
at 07:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at the Atlanta airport
Appearance: Hazy amber with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, caramel and pine
Taste: Toasted malts, caramel and bitter pine
Very nice, I like this one.
Appearance: Hazy amber with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, caramel and pine
Taste: Toasted malts, caramel and bitter pine
Very nice, I like this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Aug 2011
at 19:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Received this from my Secret Santa KarrHeel03, thanks for the opportunity. Pours a slightly hazy red orange color with a two finger fluffy beige head that persists forever. Smells of citrus right off, I’m thinking grapefruit, but that aroma disappeared quickly. Some caramel and a bit of spicy, minerally esters waft up towards my nostrils as well. At first smell it was a dead ringer for an American IPA, but as it sat the nose definitely morphed into a more English bitter leaning animal. Taste is malty with caramel and brown bread, minerally with that English hop flair but an almost citrusy hop bite in there as well. Medium to high carbonation, medium body with a watery/syrupy mouthfeel. This is a weird little beer that I really enjoyed. It’s like an Americanized version of an esb that is still true to its English roots.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2011
at 19:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pour is a dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma is earthy and alcohol. Flavor is a decent earthy malt with nice hoppy backbone. Finish is of heavy malts that leaves a caramel on the tounge. A solid example of the style.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2010
at 17:12