ESB

Nine Locks Brewing Co. in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦

Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular

Score

6.45

ABV: 5.6%

IBU: 35

Ticks: 6

This classic English pub ale has a burnished copper colour with an aroma of toast, honey, and pear. A broad malt body featuring kilned coffee and toffee. East Kent Golding and Fuggles hops give this English style ale a subtle spiciness, which compliments its strong malt backbone.

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6.1

Quick3Beers (3144) reviewed ESB from Nine Locks Brewing Co. 8 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours a rich copper from a can. Bready, toffee aroma, similar flavor, nice English hop notes and bitterness. Good beer.

Tried from Can on 27 Aug 2017 at 22:34

6.6

deyholla (22839) reviewed ESB from Nine Locks Brewing Co. 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a deep amber with a near white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of bread, sweet grains and a bit of hay underlying. Flavor is full of smooth bread with some sweet grains supporting.

Tried from Draft on 11 Dec 2016 at 16:09

6.8

fiulijn (28383) reviewed ESB from Nine Locks Brewing Co. 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tasting at Matt’s, canHazy amber color. It has some caramel and biscuity malt quality, and moderate character from the yeast.
Nice.

Tried from Can on 04 Oct 2016 at 18:27

Ferris (26026) reviewed ESB from Nine Locks Brewing Co. 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can - Light sweet caramel. Clear copper with a small white head. Caramel and light bitterness with a decent finish.

Tried from Can on 27 Sep 2016 at 21:20

6.6

mcberko (47797) reviewed ESB from Nine Locks Brewing Co. 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

473mL can, pours a hazy amber with a small white head. Aroma brings out bready malt, toasted caramel and subdued English hops. Flavour is fairly robust for the style, with toasted caramel, English hops, some resins, and bready malt. Dry finish, with a lean mouthfeel. Nice stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2016 at 21:13

5.9

Oakes (33770) reviewed ESB from Nine Locks Brewing Co. 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Amber colour. This has a caramelly, earthy aroma. About right for the style, but not exciting in any way. Some earthy character, but mostly sweet. Caramel. Medium body. Low bitterness, so not really dry enough in the finish to claim good balance. A bit disappointing, could have brought more to the table.

Tried on 27 Sep 2016 at 21:07