Extra Special Ale (ESA)
Yards Brewing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.53
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at the brewery in Philadelphia. A clear deep amber coloured pour with a small halo of beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, burnt toffee, grass, burnt grass, butterscotch. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, jammy, layered nutty malts, sweet bread, toffee, butterscotch, grassy hop. Palate is medium sweet, sticky sugars, light tang, mellow carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours copper. Raisin, grain, sulfur, biscuit. Medium body. Fine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draft at the source. Clear gold, white head. Light malt, floral notes, hay. Not my favorite.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Strangelove in cask. Hazy brown pour. Nose is cardboard, floral, and pine. Taste sof florals, caramel, toast. Ok
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle. CLear copper color. Large rocky beige head. Spicy toasted malt nose. Soft, silky toasted malt flavor. Notes of caramel and herbal hops. Easy drinking and very "English". Earthy malt and spicy hops in finish round this ale out nicely.
djd07 (28898) reviewed Extra Special Ale (ESA) from Yards Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear copper brown with medium off white head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is bread and floral. Medium mouth, cocoa, toffee, grain, bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Citrus and a touch of nut in this. Malt has a big profile. Some light sourness. Pours amber with good head and great lacing. Tap at brewpub.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at brother Charlie’s bachelor camp-out - CT, October 2013. Pours red-brown with a creamy topping. Tasty, bready, simple. Touches of sugary malts. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. More basic bready malts on the finish, low bitterness, faint leaves and fruit. Basic but tasty and easy-drinking.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask offering at O’Neal’s Pub. The cask variety adds an element of sourness to the normally bitter nature of this beer. Nice woody, dried fruit aroma, more dried fruit in the taste. This is more of a sipper, bringing to mind dubbels and sours. Nice!