Propeller ESB
Rich, full-bodied English-style bitter made from a blend of two-row malts, including pale malt, crystal malt (for body and residual sweetness) and chocolate malt (for its rich flavour and colour). A last small addition of malted wheat helps deliver its pleasing head.
Hopping is done to 30 IBUs using a combination of North American Williamette and Fuggle varieties, and English Goldings. Water is softened for this brew in the manner of southern English bitters, making it very smooth and refreshing.
Hopping is done to 30 IBUs using a combination of North American Williamette and Fuggle varieties, and English Goldings. Water is softened for this brew in the manner of southern English bitters, making it very smooth and refreshing.
3.5
240 reviews
Halifax, Canada
Community reviews
Pour is a clear dark Brown whith an off-white head. Nose is sweet and malty with some roastiness. Taste is caramel malts with chocolate notes. Light roast bitterness. Medium body and carbonation. Well balanced beer with a great malt profile!
cask. Ruby/amber with bubbly head. Very rich malt flavours, with wood, cherry, breads. Well balanced and a pleasing mouthfeel. Very good ESB.
Draft at Tide & Boar. Slightly hazy bright golden orange amber color. Aroma of mixed citrus. Taste is fruity and bitter. Nice.
Poured from bottle. Aroma is a nice mixture of caramel, chocolate, and coffee. Appearance is a clear amber with slightly off-white head. Taste is a medium bitter. Body is somewhere between medium and full. Creamy texture, with average carbonation, and a bitter finish. A very drinkable ESB with just the right amount of bitterness.
Bottle from the Brewery store.
Pours a solid dark brown with a decent sized off white head. Toffee, caramel, and dark fruits with just a hint of earthiness. Medium body moderate carbonation. One of the better ESB’s that I’ve had.
Thanks Geoff,
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy dark copper/light brown color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute. There was some light slightly sticky and foamy lacing.
The smell had a bitter malty dried toffee to slight caramel aroma with a slight nutty edge in the background.
The taste was mainly a sweet dry caramel/toffee toastiness. There wasn’t any aftertaste but a dry caramel/toffee finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation seemed good for the style and for me as it was smooth and slightly creamy.
Overall, good ESB I’d have again if I could.
Great bitter that you can just drink and drink. Pours a dark copper with a quick dissipating head. Aroma is of toffee and caramel. Tastes of toffee, caramel, and biscuits and it does it so well. Has a medium slick body and low carbonation. Finishes off with a refreshing tiny bitterness. A nice sweetness to this beer, but not too much. Best bitter I have had in a while.
I wanted a better Bitter so I’d better not be bitter towards the bartender. Maybe he’d pour me this pretty rusty brown booze-o with it’s thin but lacing head. A nice whiff of caramel malt, earthiness, leather, nuttiness and roasty malts. What a wonderful taste, some light smokiness mixed with a mild sweetness balanced by a dry bitter finish. Handsome medium body, slightly oily and an average carbonation. The nice classic English bittern finish lasts a long time.
Pours brown with a foamy light head. Aroma of rum and port, floral and sweet. Taste is delicious, mildly bitter, slightly sweet and slightly malty. Lovely.
Pint at split crow. Clear amber. Roasted caramel and nutty malt. Taste is same with a little nut bitterness. Good stuff
Excellent Beer. I have tried on-tap, bottled and filled a Growler directly from the Brewery here in Halifax. All are very consistent for a relatively small Brewer. Rich malty taste with just the right bitterness. Great colour and head, and remarkably smooth.
Couleur cuivre/rouge avec une mousse moyenne beige/blanche. L’arôme est des fruits, un peu du blé et un peu du malt. D’abord, le goût est du fruits et du malt, puis un peu de blé, ensuite du chocolat noir (plutôt du cacao à cause de l’amertume). Tout est très bien équilibré dans la finale avec un amertume léger mais quand même assez present.
pours a dark brown with a medium off white head. Disappears quickly with little to no lacing. Aroma is quite malty with a toffee sweetness, notes of honey. Taste quite sweet, roasted malts an undertone of tree nuts. Bitterness takes over rather quickly leaving a long lingering aftertaste, and a nice dry finish. Very good!
Appearence: Copper colour with off white head. Good lacing. Smell: Dark fruits, caramel, and light earthy hops. Taste: nice and malty upfront, rich toasted grains, some caramel and nuttiness. Slight hop profile and finishes nice and bitter, as it should.
Quite enjoyable over all.
Pours clear, deep copper with a diminishing cream head. Aroma of toffee, caramel malt, fruity yeast. Taste is bitter up front with light toast, medium-light body leading to a firm, herbaceous hop finish.
Pours sort of a chestnut brown with a nice big foamy head. Aroma is lightly hopped but lots of rich doughy malt. Sweet toffee and rich malt flavour, slightly nutty with a light floral hop and a medium body. Great example of this style.
Toffee coloured with a full creamy head and fine lacing. Sweet malt aroma, complex taste of malt, chocolate and sweetness. Slightly bitter palate with nice hazel nut finish.
Tap offering. Much cleaner than pils. Soft raisin. Dough. Easy drinking. Low bitterness. Better than expected.
a beautiful beer, and way less bitter and more complex that modern hop explosions.
Great dark amber colour with a creamy white head. Weak on aroma but smooth in flavour. Subtle chocolate and malt flavours.
330 ml bottle. Pours a mildly hazy chestnut brown with a moderate off-white head. Aromas are bread, earth, licorice, and sweet malts. Tastes are caramel, bread, nuts, and mild bitterness. Medium mouthfeel with a consistent taste from start to finish.
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Pours a clear dark copper amber with a light brown head that last for a while. Aroma of grassy hops, caramel, earthiness and some light floral esthers. Taste is grassy earthy hops, with a light caramel and a night smooth light bitterness throughout. Excellent sessionable bitter, one of the best I’ve had in the style.
Pours a dark copper colour with a long lasting thin off white head leaving some good lace. Aroma is toast, toffee, and grass. Flavour is toffee, caramel, toast, medium bitterness, grassy, earthy and a dry finish.
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The beer pours a murky brown color with an off-white head. The aroma is full of toffee with a hint of grass thrown in. Definitely a malty beer. The flavor is similar. I get some toffee and biscuit malt, with a bit of grass and earth mixed in. Low bitterness. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. A nice ESB.
Pours a deep copper/amber with a nice 2-finger head and thick white foam. Nice chunky lacing. Heavy aroma of citrus and caramel sweetness. Heavy nose of yeasty earthiness as well. Medium carbonation followed by floral bitterness, resinous notes and a strong malt foundation. Medium bitter finish. A nice beer and a proper English ESB.
Poured from 12oz bottle at Stout in Toronto. Clear amber colour with a slight foamy head. Nicely balanced flavours, very drinkable.
341ml bottle. Coppery brown with small head. Created good lace. Ample fruity, malty aroma. Tastes great! Robust malts and equally generous treatments of sweet fruit hops. Rounds out to a burnt/roasted flavour on the finish. Superb palate - great carbonation. A spectacular ESB
Amazing bitter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Extra Special Bitter is a good every day beer with good personality and taste.
Aug 29, 2012. 341ml bottle pours clear, bright mahogany with an inch off white head and good carbonation. Head diminishes to a ring but manages to leave good lacing. Aroma is all malts, more roasted than sweet, with hints of nuts and grains. Taste is same up front settling into a sweet chocolate coffee and earthy oats, and finishing with a slight bitter mouthfeel. Roasted nutty malts are dominant throughout. Palate is watery and a tad thin but very well balanced and enjoyable. More flavour than better rated ESBs but lacking in body.