Can thanks to Vin. Pours crystal clear deep orange, medium creamy beige head, dissipates slowly, good lacing. Aroma is caramel malt, grain, biscuit, toast. Flavor is light sweet, light plus bitter. Grainy with toasted malt and noble hop notes. Medium body. Good enough.

16 oz. shared by Chalumeaux. Dirty orange/ Amber in color. Aroma shows bold amount of bread, citrus hops on top of a toffee and caramel base. The flavor starts bready with a toffee malty backbone with a slight sweet finish. The bitterness is weak strength and shows mostly sweet malts.

Overall, for the style it is exactly what it should. Easily drinkable, no problems what-so-ever.

Poured from can thanks Chris DeMont dated 10/19/17 hazy brown with a tan head. Aromas of brown sugar light roast dark fruit. Taste is nice caramel toffee light bitterness in the finish.

Can at joes.... Hazy copper.. Thin white lacing.. Soft sweet caramel toffee.. Soft woody malts nose.. Soft sweet toffee malts.. Light dry toffee fruit

Can from a trade. Somehow I feel like I was in the loss here. Poured into a snifter showing caramel brown with sparse white head. The nose shows tea but with light notes of orange. The palate is light bodied and lightly carbonated. Flavors of tea with a light astringency and light notes of orange in between.

Canned 9/9/16, drunk 9/9 and 9/11/16.
Beautiful, amber-chestnut body certainly looks the part and shows a good clarity (very light haze) and a medium-sized, beige head with low retention.
Fruitiness rises up immediately upon cracking the can and is followed by brown bread, light caramel, earth and very light spice (from the hops). I really thought this was going to be an American-hopped, juicy, amber pale ale, with just the ESB moniker but this is actually a very authentic ESB, just like trail magic and the Echelon series. Impressive. Malts seem nicely attenuated, yet still add good base malt honey and vanilla, with specialty malts adding no iced tea character that I hate and instead, plentiful toffee/caramel. Hugely fruity esters and peppery, lightly herbal hops help balance and there is no alcohol or flaw.
A full body for the style, with certainly a good malty sweetness full of plums, raisins, caramel, vanilla and honey still shows strong attenuation. Dries out considerably through the middle, with the help of some brown bread-like breadiness. Lots of ester and phenol on the end; a particularly strong peppery character from the hops. Low bitterness, though the spicy/peppery notes linger, keeping it dry on the finish. Carbonation is very expansive and fine, bolstering the body and the mouthfeel is, overall, very soft and malty.
My only complaint would be the lack of any real individuality; this is a superbly-executed rendition, but it doesn’t have a ton of personality. Though perhaps the ester profile is so nice that it doesn’t need much.

Can thanks to Alan. Pours a cloudy copper with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is earthy malt, grain, yeast. Medium mouth, caramel, bready malt, light finish, decent.