This is another old favourite of mine and was my bitter of choice for a number of years when I was younger. It has won the World champion bitter award twice and numerous other awards for the reason that it is a very fine beer.
The taste is a balance between the strong malt flavour offset by the bitterness of the hops and it slides easily over the tongue, comes in at a brain damaging 5.9% abv and is dangerously deceptive. It does not taste like a strong beer and if you are not careful with the pace of the first 2 or 3 pints then you can find your evening coming to an early end due to “user incapacity”.
Oh, and ESB is Extra Special Bitter – a name that this one certainly deserves.
2 comments:
Every time you post a picture of the beer you are discussing, it looks so tempting and yummy. :)
rt, Generally speaking they taste even better than they look.
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