Magnumus Ete Tomahawkus ESB³
Pours a very nice looking slightly hazy copper colour with a mid-to big sized creamy off-white head that has a lot of stickiness to it. The aroma is a wonderful blast of hops which are balanced with a caramel malt sweetness. The hop aromas here lean toward the bread and/or pine variety and just make for some wonderful scents overall. The flavour is hoppy but not as hoppy as the aroma. It is cut through with some bitterness and a bit of sweetness. There's more of a dirty earth quality here and some hints of pepper and perhaps other spice as well. Caramel sweetness is still here but much less apparent than it is in the aroma. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, and very sharp to the tongue. I liked this one. I was expecting it to be a bit more mellow than it was (although I don't know why as the word extreme is plainly plastered across the front of the bottle) but was not disappointed at all for a bit of a jacked up brew. I'd say it needs an ever so slight tweaking in the balance department to keep the malt more in line with the hops, but it's current makeup is still quite nice and I really have no complaints about it. Recommended.