ESB (Best Bitter)
Boundary Bay Brewery in Bellingham, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.32
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omhper (44752) reviewed ESB (Best Bitter) from Boundary Bay Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
Draught at the brewpub. Cloudy pale amber. Medium sweet with hard, syrupy crystal malt character and only some vague resiny hops to try to cover it. Raw and harsh.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed ESB (Best Bitter) from Boundary Bay Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught pint at Redbones, 11/22/05. Pale-copper and grapefruit skin colored body, moderate chill haze with a foamy white head, moderate retention and clumpy lacing. Aroma is right away grapefruity and very dry, making me at first wonder if this was not actually an IPA. But not much like a west coast IPA in malt profile. From the nose it is dry, with just a even, clean pale malt character, hints of dough, with more citrus and floral nots from the hops. Flavor is not as bitter as the hops might suggest from the nose. Not heavy on the bittering hops, but still a fair amount of citrus flavor, light biscuits, pale grains and a gentle, but consistently present bitterness. Malt complexity is lacking and it really leaves the hops to do most of the work, giving mostly orange, grapefruit, light melon and floral notes. Mouthfeel shows moderate carbonation, small bubbles giving an engaging texture, but the body is only medium to light in sweetness and substantiality. Smooth, to lightly watery texture. No alcohol apparency. We ought to just start a new style. These intensely citrus-hopped low-malt sweetness mid gravity beers made predominantly in the west don’t seem to have much in common with the Premium bitters of England.
Oakes (33493) reviewed ESB (Best Bitter) from Boundary Bay Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught, at the brewery
Golden-amber colour. Woody, toasty aroma with honeyed malts. Crisp, minerally body. Balanced - the style is done very well here. It’s just not to my personal taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle Pours a clear light red/amber with a small sandy head that laves very little lacing. Aromais hops and sweet malts. Rather piney. Flavors are woody and bitter. Somewhat sweet and easy going down. Feel is a bit thin and aftertaste is a pleasant grassy hop bitterness. Not a bad selection from my old stomping grounds, Bellingham Wa.
crit200 (5324) reviewed ESB (Best Bitter) from Boundary Bay Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
No head. Good hop nose.Finish is a little brief, but good nonetheless.......