Harvest Ale
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Autumn Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Brewed in honor of the Harvest season this copper colored ESB is made with Cascade hops and the richest Midwestern malts. A fruity American hop aroma and a toasty malt character make Goose Island Harvest Ale an extra special beer worthy of your devotion.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a glowing orange with a mountainous white head. Light aroma of caramel malts and citrus hops. Nice flavor, quite hoppy, also fruity and sweet. Some earth in the finish, but clean, with more fruit and slight stickiness. Medium-bodied, a bit piney and resiney. Reminded of an IPA, much more than ESBs usually do. Perhaps this is the Ameican ESB? Regardless, I liked it a lot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2010
at 10:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Nice head with medium duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich hops, flowers, malt, nuts and caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2010
at 16:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from a trade with phaleslu. Pours slighly hazy copper color with off white head. Aroma is fruit and caramel. Flavor is slightly sweet caramel with some bread dough and mild hops. Medium body with mild carbonation. Thanks Peter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2010
at 17:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
From The Botle Shop, York. Copper coloured pour with a medium sized off white head .Aroma was primarily sweet caramel malt and juicy hop with toffee and dark fruit notes. Flavour seemed pretty malt driven at first. then some nice hoppage kicked in that mingled well with the prevalent burnt toffee character. Interesting balance to this one. Enjoyable stuff.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2010
at 10:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle. Brown/amber body with medium size off-white head. Flavour is hops, malt, caramel and fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2010
at 13:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Copper with a foamy head. Pine aroma with caramel, grapefruit and malt. Hoppy taste with pine, toffee and malt. Nicely balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2010
at 04:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from The Cave. Clear amber colour, large off-white head. Aroma is hoppy and fruity. Pine hops and orange. Flavour has a good malty body, with fresh hops, pine and citrus. Slightly bitter, slightly dry. Good drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2010
at 09:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Refrigerated bottle poured into a glass. Pours a deep amber color with nice thick head and nice lacing. The taste is dominated by spicy hops both aromatic floral (pine tree) and bitter. Not a bad beer, but not one of my favorite styles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2009
at 11:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Hj Hansen, Odense. Pours cloudy orange/amber with a small creamy white head and lacings. Aroma is hoppy and sweet malty. Caramel, bread and grapefruit. Freshly hopped flavor. Smooth and medium bodied. Fine balance. Ends dry and hoppy. Easy and drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2009
at 07:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home ... brown ... thin white lacing ... sweet bright hop ... over fizzy ... sweet summer fruits ... quite hoppy ... but very very light fruity... ok but not really hitting the spot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2009
at 12:43