Bitter Peace
Holy Mountain Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
7.02
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A very traditional Extra Special Bitter. Brewed with the best English malt and hops we could get our hands on. Malty, hoppy, and easy drinking.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Aromas are malt, rye bread, toffee, metallic. Aromas are similar to nose, losing the metallic. Mildly sweet up front going to bittersweet. Goodbody and carbonation. Nice ESB.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 12 Mar 2026
at 23:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can from Tavour. Pours darkish amber with a moderate tan head. Aroma of amber malt and floral hop. Med body. It's malty but not very sweet. Enough bitterness to balance. Flavor is slightly roasty caramel with floral and grass/spice for hop. Fits the style.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 12 Feb 2026
at 01:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Tap. Pours clear orange Amber, large tan head, ultra creamy and long lasting. Aroma is malty, caramel, toast, cracker, Noble hop. Flavor is light plus sweet, light pls bitter, classic. Melon body soft silky mouthfeel. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2017
at 17:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Beautiful crystal clear Amber brown. Powerful earth forward hops, toasted malt, light lemon. Quite bitter. Medium bodied. Finish is medium dry and bitter. A real bitter ESB. Enjoyable.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2017
at 19:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. Pours a cloudy orange with small off white head. The aroma is toasted malt and rye. Medium body, bready malt, rye, caramel, light dry finish, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2016
at 16:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Holy Mountain, pours a dark amber orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of English hops and toasted biscuity malt. Flavour brings out lots of English hops upfront upfront, with a dry toasted biscuity malt character. Almost a dry peanuty character to it. Decent and above average for the style. Solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Nov 2016
at 14:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Draft pour at Holy Mountain. Accidentally ended up here to try a beer that I wouldn’t expect to find here. So much fun playing this game! A glowing orange pour with a rocky head. Dense malt aroma. Flavor is extremely nutty, in the best way possible. Like a peanut, caramely malt. Late bitter, but covered with a flavorful linger. Very good beer, but most importantly, I beat the monster HM raters to the new beer. A new model ESB if you ask me. Yum!
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Sep 2016
at 16:42