ESB (Extra Special Bitter)
Verdant Brewing Co in Falmouth, Cornwall, England 🏴
Collab with: AdnamsBitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Special
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Score
7.20
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For the return leg of our collaboration with Adnams, it could only be one style of beer...an Extra Special Bitter! Layered malty textures intertwine with our expressive house yeast esters and some amazing and super fresh Kent hops from Antony Redsell. Definitely a special one for sure.
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7/10
Magus, mõru, karamelline, linnaseline, tsitrus. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jul 2025
at 22:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can from Benny’s place, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a mostly clear medium amber colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is yeasty, light mineral citrus. The flavour is moderate bitter and sweet, with a fresh, warm, smooth, dry, yeasty, toffee treacle, hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2025
at 17:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask (!) at the Hanging Bat. 5.8% Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Aromas of toffee and dried fruit. Taste is a little astringent, nutty, malty, mixed peel. Light bitter finish.
Tried
on 29 May 2025
at 09:27
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is toffee, caramel, red apple, jammy red fruits. orange marmalade. Same action in the taste. Jammy sweet red fruity malarkey. Lightly bitter. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
at
Star & Garter
on 12 Apr 2025
at 19:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Malty, bready and wet hoppy with some mild bitterness, caramel, toasted notes and toffee. Old skool stuff, quite balanced
Tried
on 25 May 2024
at 17:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can. Adnams Cellar, Holt. Soft haze on a copper colour. Slim clingy white head. Sweet fruity caramel malt. Background citrus hop. Touch of spicy hop. Whiff of tea. Taste is biscuit sweet up front with a generous spicy leafy bitterness. Smooth and tasty. Lingering bitterness to finish. Cracking bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Feb 2024
at 19:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at home in Hackney - sourced from Clapton Craft. Pours clear, rich copper-gold with a dense, frothy yellowish head. Light sweet flavour with notes of toasted leaves, sun-kisses grains, a little earth, bread crust. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, more leafy hops, earth, dried leathery berries. Tasty stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2024
at 21:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can. Nutty brown with a good white head. Malty caramel aroma, flavour is caramel with some citrus hop. Decent
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2023
at 23:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
This is what a beer should look like. Clear amber, just a little carbonation, thick white head., Smells malty with a little zest and something sweet. Flavour has a bunch of malt in there up front, a bit of biscuit, light hop, just a dash of zesty sweetness and pine. Good body and a nice lasting bitterness. I love it when I get my hands on a bitter by brewers who know what a bitter should/can be when there are so many average ones knocking about. They don't add much to this that you wouldn't get ordinarily, it's just a very good version of the style.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Dec 2023
at 21:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma of toffee, caramel, malts. Taste of toffee, caramel, nutty/biscuity malts, fruity esters, drying in the finish with a lingering bitterness. Medium bodied. Solid ESB, bet it was lovely on cask.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Nov 2023
at 17:26