2° Below Winter Ale
This is a very tasty, balanced beer with both strong maltiness and strong hop flavour yet a great sweet-bitter balance. Light amber, it has a medium, dense off-white head pretty nice lacing. The aroma is both malty and hoppy, with a complex perfumy quality of grain, caramel, cypress, pine, and cake batter. It is full bodied with well-rounded, nicely complex flavour. It has toasted grain, cream soda, hints of caramel and pineapple, and a hop quality that is very aromatic flowery citrus and pine giving a lot of hop flavour but mild, balanced bitterness. It's oily and silky as well. Ultimately, it is very flavourful yet highly drinkable with nicely balanced malt and hop qualities and bitterness with sweetness. It is also rather interesting, having a lot of the flavour traits, especially hops, one might find in a more malty double IPA, but with much more restrained, balanced bitterness and without the rough feeling on the tounge that very hop-leaning beers can have. Seeing that it is classed as an ESB here makes sense to me: it's got a robust body with plenty of flavour and both malt and hops, sweet and bitter, with great balance.