Propeller Brewery ESB

ESB

 

Propeller Brewery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
6.74
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 30 Ticks: 34
Sweet caramel. Dry finish. Chocolate nose. Emulating an English style bitter, this copper coloured brew boasts complex flavours while maintaining its smooth mouthfeel.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from the Brewery store. Pours a solid dark brown with a decent sized off white head. Toffee, caramel, and dark fruits with just a hint of earthiness. Medium body moderate carbonation. One of the better ESB’s that I’ve had.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2014 at 21:24


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Thanks Geoff,
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy dark copper/light brown color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute. There was some light slightly sticky and foamy lacing.
The smell had a bitter malty dried toffee to slight caramel aroma with a slight nutty edge in the background.
The taste was mainly a sweet dry caramel/toffee toastiness. There wasn’t any aftertaste but a dry caramel/toffee finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation seemed good for the style and for me as it was smooth and slightly creamy.
Overall, good ESB I’d have again if I could.

Tried on 06 Aug 2014 at 22:59


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

1st April 2010
Clear dark red - brown beer. Not much head. Toffee malt on the nose. Palate is slightly crisp. Dark toffee reasonably well balanced with mildly bitter hops of a marmalade orange character. Finishes dry. Competent but unremarkable.

Tried on 09 Jun 2012 at 17:31


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Smells like syrupy malt., honeyed malt. Pours with decent head and mahogany colour. This has a bitter touch to it, classic English style carbonation. Not a whole hell of a lot of character, but good for the style. Aroma is a touch sweet for my liking.

Tried on 02 Apr 2012 at 12:42


6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Originally rated november 2005. Pours a dark amber colour with hardly no head and lacing. Aromas of sweet and roasted malts with some hints of caramel and apples. The taste is a good mix of chocolat malt and bitterness. Smooth and refreshing. A good example of a Extra Special Bitter.

Tried on 07 Dec 2011 at 19:48


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(bottle) clear dark amber with small brown head; faint aromas of fruit and roast; refreshing flavour with long medium bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2011 at 11:36


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Propeller in Halifax. Pours out amber topped with a small sand head. Aroma was of caramel, bread malts, nuts, sweetness, and some light hop notes. Taste was much as the aroma with a good malt mix along with the light hops. A very well done ESB.

Tried from Draft on 22 Mar 2011 at 18:30


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bouteille 341ml, courtoisie de SlovakSniper. De couleur brune-cuivrée et claire. Nez malté de caramel aux petites notes rôties, léger de houblon terreux et légèrement herbeux avec des notes fruitées (prunes, traces de pommes rouges), de noix et biscuits à la mélasse. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture moyennement crémeuse et aux faibles notes huileuses. Léger goût fruité (prunes, traces de pommes) accompagné de notes de grains de malt rôtis lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût malté de caramel tofffee ainsi que des notes de biscuits à la mélasse. Parallèlement, l’on retrouve une moyenne amertume asséchante de houblon herbeux et légèrement terreux jusqu’en finale, accompagné d’un léger goût de noix. Post-goût moyen et un peu sec, moyennement amer de houblon herbeux et légèrement terreux ainsi qu’un léger goût de noix, des petites notes rôties et fruitées (pelures de prunes).

Tried on 06 Jan 2011 at 19:34


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle thanks to savvy1982 (the bottle says to drink fresh but has no discernible best by date on it). Pours with a bronze to brown body and a slightly off-white head that fades rather rapidly. Pretty dark compared to a lot of other ESBs out there. Aroma is bready, dry, sweet grain, cereal, nuts. The grain smell is sweet and smells like mashing in on most brewdays. A touch of molasses and dusty chocolate. Flavors are dry, a bit too roasty (for the style and my tastes, it ends up a bit acrid), caramel, nuts. Bitter. Abrupt finish. Medium bubbles. Pretty dry.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2010 at 19:32


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Brown bottle, 650 ml, purchased at the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation, savoured on November 22 2010; eye: copper, clear, no effervescence, tiny ring of beige head, no lacing; nose: nutty, light malt, dusty; mouth: malt, nutty, dusty, light roast, finale in hops with presence of nuts, medium body, good carbonation, lightly bitter, light astringency, lightly grainy texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 650 ml, achetée à la Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation, savourée le 22 novembre 2010; œil : cuivre, claire, pas d’effervescence, petit anneau de mousse beige, pas de dentelle; nez : noix, léger malt, poussière; bouche : malt, noix, poussière, léger rôti, finale en houblon avec présence de noix, corps moyen, bonne carbonatation, légèrement amère et astringente, texture légèrement granuleuse; en résumé : bien

Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2010 at 12:03