Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite - Jersey City, 10/24/10

Aroma: The nose is caramel malts, a little bit of spice, and some light floral notes
Appearance: It pours a mahogony color with a creamy tan head and some spotty lace
Flavor: The flavor is medium (plus) sweet up-front, herbal and bitterness on the finish
Palate: The body is medium, it has a that British ESB feel to it, and a somewhat sticky feel
Overall Impression: This is an alright ESB. The flavor is OK, and there isn't anything particularly wrong with it, but it isn't so exciting either. Just a boring ESB. It drinks alright I guess, but something about it just doesn't work that well.

Amber pour. Clear. Nose is spiced malt. Has a hint of pumpkin in the taste. Rated 9/23/04

Bottle courtesy of Tony @ OTH. Pours copperish with beige head. Taste is light, sweet, malty with light butterscotch, lactose in aftertaste and very light coffee notes. Medium body.

Pours a deep amber into a shaker. Tan, medium to micro head looks like pancake batter as it quickly recedes. Sharp, sour yellow cake batter aromas (if it looks like batter, and it smells like batter...it better not taste like batter)...Upfront creamy candy corns turns to a lasting bitter hop finish.

2004 bottle. Well it pours a dark copper, burgundy brownish color with a rapidly fleeting beige head. Notes of light hops and dry nutty notes. Some yeast as well. Flavor definitely sticks with you; it’s bitter and has a light malt sweetness, but it’s faint and only appears on the finish. Mostly some yeast and lots of hoppiness and spiciness. Medium body, not too much carbonation, but still too filtered. A bit tinny on the end. Could use some more fruitiness from more of an Enlgish yeast apparency, as well as more malt.

October 28th 2005 draught at Grittys in Portland. Moderate amount of beige head atop a filtered deep brownish-ruby body. Smells of sweet malts, toffee, caramel, chocolate. No yeast, barely any hops. Simple texture, with draught carbonation adding most of the mouthfeel, just a light touch of sticky sugars otherwise. Didnt get any alcohol apparency out of this one, but I could see that happening on nitro. Boring and nowhere near close to any malt depth, but not offensive. 6/3/5/3/10

Bright orangey-amber; aroma is a mix of allspice & caramel. Fairly alcoholic palate, with fruity notes and the odd bit of caramel and earth. Decent brew, but why is this their smash hit?