Buffalo Bitter
Firehouse Brewing Company (SD) in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.45
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours copper. Toffee, plum, apricot, hazelnut, pear. Overcarbed. This would be a pretty legit beer on cask. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Toffee malt and hay aroma. Dark amber with small head. Moderately sweet cherry, toffee malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Deeper dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, just off-white head, about a centimetre tall and a fairly clear brown glow, nothing opaque at all about this, not oily and not showing much depth in the look. Aroma of roasted and toasted malts with a little dash of lactose and caramelised sugars, but that's about it. Light-bodied; Fresh roasted malt flavours dominate with somet oatmeal and fresh yeast notes along with a bready dash towards the end and some crisp sweetness from caramel and toffee. Aftertaste is rich with some roasted malts, cream and a hit of oatmeal, all while being fairly-easy-drinking. Overall, a decent mild (I style that I really like) with some small malt notes and a bit more from the sugar and lactose department, but still easy-drinking but a good amount of flavour. One of the better beers from the brewpub on my visit at least. I sampled this four ounce pour on draught, as part of the full nine-beer lineup sampling, from the brewpub/brewery in Rapid City, South Dakota, just hours after landing in the state [for the first time, ever] on 25-June-2020 for US$12,25 (for all nine beers!).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy orange to light brown color. Bar pour doesn’t yield any head.
The smell had the normal \"soapiness\" of English malts extending throughout the beer. Light somewhat spicy hops are underneath.
The taste followed the nose.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionable aspect about it.
Overall, I say this was a good ESB worthy of having again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours gold with an offwhite head. Aroma is soft medium malt. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel/bready, some earthy/spice hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draft at brewpub - a fairly lackluster, overly sweet bitter - a lot of residual sugar and adjunct-y (corn syrup-like) sweetness - some toasted/burnt grains and faint earthy hops - not so much bitter at the end as it is acidic - a little metallic on the tail end - boring.