Redhook ESB

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

355ml bottle into schooner glass. More than a Cornflakes aroma, perhaps Frosties! Hazy amber beer with thin film on top. A few bubbles. Full bodied, sweet malt taste. Slight zing in the mouth. Alcohol and bitterness noticeable in the finish. Not great and nothing like an ESB.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

On tap at the Oakland airport
Appearance: Clear golden with a medium sized white head and good lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, bisquity and sweet
Taste: Toasted malts, bready with bitter citrus in the finish
Nice, much better than years ago

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

My second Red Hook. Very fresh, brewed on 12/19/06. Label is a little boring not like the one pictured here. Pours lighter brownish orange with a froth on top, no head. Smells a little sweet. Taste is like a cross between a lager and an ale. Starts off pretty gentleman-like then proceeds to give you a little bitter bite on the back of the throat. Creamy carbonation is present but much below average. Bitterness is medium strong and hangs for a while. Not as good as yards extra special but it is on par or better than ol speckled hen, #6, bass ale and Whitbread. I also had this on tap at the Coney Island in Slippery Rock lately.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

12oz bottle. Clear caramel colour with a small white head. Caramel aroma, malty and lightly hoppy. Sweet and caramely with some bitterness. Ok, but on the sweet side.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

About time I got around to rating this one. This is one of the earliest US craft beers I can remember trying back around ’90. I remember wondering if it would be too bitter since it is an extra special bitter. Pours copper with weak white head. The meek aroma seems to put out a whimper of spicy hops a sense of malt sweetness and little else. The taste holds up moderate notes of spicy hops, some floral hops and then a thin layer of straight up grapefruit hop bitterness. The grapefruit note grows to a tepid level by midway. It fades into the finish but allows for a bit of grapefruit hop bitterness to hang in there for a while into the after taste.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Small offwhite head, short lived with a touch of stringy lace left behind. hazy gold color. Yeasty, fruity nose. Light body, malt and hops. A small yeast bite? Finish is dry, lightly fruity. ZZZZZZZZZZ.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

September 2014: Sample from bottle at Vecturamesse. Brown colour, Some caramel in aroma and flavour. The flavour is otherwise too bland for an ESB, with too moderate hops. Will re-rate when I get a full bottle.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Review from old paper notes sometime 1998. brown Bottle with bottle date -1-30-97 and drank on 04-01-98. Brewed and bottled Redhook Ale Brewery, 35 Corporate drive, Portsmouth NH 03801. deep amber ale nice head and lacing. malt/caramel taste, hops, biter and citrus. abit of a bitter finnish

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

I picked this beer up from the Kroger on Brambleton in Roanoke, Virginia. It was part of a mixed case. This beer was a nice take on a very favorite style of mine. While it was good, the Brits OWN this style.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

pour was a medium amber with a yellow hue and an average sized white head that receded down to a thin layer and small collar of residue with poor lacing. The aroma was rather strong of toasted caramel malts and a mildly sweet yeast with notes of toffee, butterscotch and citrus. The taste was very malty and a slightly sweet with a hint of toffee early on and then had a mild citrus bitterness. The mouthfeel was light in body with a mildly syrupy texture and a lively carbonation.