English Style Special Ale
Sand Creek Brewing Company in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.35
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 ounce bottle, 9/20/19. Hazy reddish brown, large foamy and fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of caramel, toast, cherry. Taste is sweet tea, caramel, cherries. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 11
Bottle. Deep amber body with a frothy off-white head. Aroma of caramel, apricot and toasted grain The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Some English characteristics, especially the caramel, but not a lot. Too sweet.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Nutty toffee malt and straw aroma. Amber with moderate head. Sweet nutty toffee malt and moderately bitter herbal hay flavor. Medium body. Okay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle: Slightly hazy amber with a thick, light tan head. Nutty, slightly roasted aroma. Flavour is caramel malt, nuts....a little toasty.. Mild, earthy-leafy bitter....a touch of a metallic note....... Pretty decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12 oz bottle purchased as part of a mix a six at the Festival in Onalasaka, Wisconsin. The pour is a clear golden amber with a two inch light tan head. The head is lasting, falls with nice lace. The aroma is caramel malt, some plum, and a bit of a dustiness. The taste is the sweet caramel malt throughout, with a bit of grass and hay in the middle, and mineral in the back. As the beer warms, the mineral gets a dirty earthy edge to it. The palate is medium to light bodied, very low carbonation, and the slightly dirty dry finish. The dry finish does help to cut the sweetness. Just OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle. Murky amber-brown color with a patchy fading head. Sweet butterscotch and syrupy hop aroma. A little underwhelming in it’s watery mouthfeel, light carbonation. Displays some respectable hop content, but it’s mostly covered underneath the sticky specialty malts. There are some odd tastes that border on off flavors, particularly the butterscotch. Not really bad, but a touch under par for an ESB certainly.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Thanks to buckybeer for this one. Produces a small off-white head over a cherry brown body. Rich malty, nutty aroma. Malty flavor profile with just enough hop bitterness to keep this nicely drinkable. Good feel to it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a cloudy brown with almost no head. Aroma is deffinatly hoppy. i had to look on the lable to make sure this was not a IPA. FLavor is nutty. malty and hoppy. Not real bad but the only thing i have wrong with it is this is not a real Engligh ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
I have never heard of this brewer and got this one through my beer club. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with a medium sized tan head. There was a light bitter malt aroma with some light tangy fruity notes. The flavor is sour, malty, a bit nutty and has a light floral hop presence The finish is bitter and reminiscent of a milder ESB.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From my Beer of The Month Club:
Very attractive in a pint glass...I was expecting this to be an ESB but now I see it’s really a Brown ale.
Some nutiness noted and for me, that’s a plus for a brown.
Pretty decent beer but not one I’d go out of my way to seek out.
Best regards,
Bill