Golden with a white head - Malts in the aroma, with hints of hops - Malt body with hints of caramel and some hops with some bitterness - Malt and some hop bitterness in the finish - This was ok, a little bit on the malty side for an esb

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 6/20/2014. Pours slightly hazy deep copper color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings around the glass, with some moderate streaming carbonation. Aromas of caramel, toffee, toasted biscuit, plum, pear, apple, herbal, floral, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of dark/bready malt, fruity yeast, and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, toffee, toasted biscuit, plum, pear, apple, herbal, floral, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Fair amount of herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, toasted biscuit, plum, pear, apple, light pepper, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Nice robustness and balance of dark/bready malt, earthy hops, and fruity yeast flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and lightly metallic mouthfeel that is okay. Alcohol is well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very solid English pale ale. All around good balance and robustness of dark/bready malt, earthy hops, and fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A pleasantly enjoyable offering.

Oh yeah, this thing. I remember this one pretty well and am certainly glad to have just found some notes on this. Here goes:
Always been poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a decent hazy orange to amber color with a decent half finger-ed white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute. The lacing, well, it kinda trickled and sputtered a bit by sliding into the beer fairly quickly.
The smell was definitely that soapy/British sweet malty-like substance with what I believe to be and have learned to be \"fuggles\" hops (quite earthy, semi-rustic and soapy to some).
The taste was malty sweet with that decent leading edge of the fuggles hops trying to come through.
The palate, well, that was basically a light to medium in body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation is super subdued (but that’s okay since I’m reviewing this as an English Pale Ale).
Overall, I say this isn’t a bad English Pale Ale, though these beers don’t get the love they did at one time, I say this is good for the style and not bad for me, if anything, its a fish n’ chips sort of beer.

Brewed by William Bass & Cos, Baldwinsville, NY. Amber with a thick cream head; biscuity malt aroma; biscuity malt taste with some soft caramel; and a sweet biscuity aftertaste, with some very light hops. I suspect William is spinning in his grave back in Burton.