Extra Special Oak (ESO)
Element Brewing Company in Millers Falls, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.56
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the Beer Shop, East Longmeadow, MA during a meet the brewer event, 19/05/13. Clear copper with a thin off white head. Nose is woody, dark malts, faint suggestion of bourbon and vanilla. Taste comprises wood, toffee, dark malt, biscuit, light booze, dark bready tones. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, light boozey finish. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2013
at 04:33
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
14th April 2012
Light haze on this amber beer. Good pale cream coloured head. The head tastes of dry raw wood!! Crisp and dry palate. Minerals, creamy malt , vanilla cream and citrus. All battered in to submission by big dry wood and even a trace of sap! Very dry finish. The woodiest beer I’ve ever had - raw wood at that.
Light haze on this amber beer. Good pale cream coloured head. The head tastes of dry raw wood!! Crisp and dry palate. Minerals, creamy malt , vanilla cream and citrus. All battered in to submission by big dry wood and even a trace of sap! Very dry finish. The woodiest beer I’ve ever had - raw wood at that.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2013
at 07:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle passed onto me by Jan & Charlotte, many thanks to a very generous couple. Consumed 30.12.11 Pours dark amber with a slight haze. Woody and spicy on nose and also in mouth. A little appley tang also picked up. Gentle warmth throughout, good beer. b] A6 A3 T7 P3 Ov13 3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2011
at 08:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours hazy golden, no head. Aroma of malt, caramel, oak, vanilla, some sourness from the oak. Taste is malt, caramel, vanilla, spices, oak. Medium body, low carbonation. 161111
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2011
at 09:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy and weak caramel aroma. Sweetish malty woody oaky caramel flavor with weak smoky hints. Has a sweetish malty woody caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2011
at 05:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
750 ml corked and caged bottle shared by John. Pour is a slight haze orange gold, with a somewhat loose head that falls with pretty lacing. The aroma is fresh oak, caramel mild roasty malt and a touch of some vegetal / plastic. Taste is toasty vanilla oak, sweet caramel malt and a faint hint of the plastic / vegetal nature from the nose - which does nto detract too much. Overall, nice integration of wood. Palate is a spritzy fine carbonation, medium to light bodied, lingering sweetness and a touch of warming in the finish. Thanks John.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2011
at 07:06