The 47 ESB

Lot 30 Brewers is a new beer builder located in my greater neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end. After a trip to their brewery and bottle shop, I brought home a 473mL can of The 47 ESB. It’s a 4% ale with a dark dull gold colour and very little head.

The beer has a sweet, biscuity scent with some solid malt notes. The flavour is fairly pleasant, with toasted malts, biscuit, and some sticky toffee. The read downside of this beer is its almost total lack of carbonation—it has the fizz you’d expect from a cask ale, but it isn’t a cask ale. There also isn’t a whole lot of bitterness, but it’s the fizz void that really hurts.

The flavour of this beer is, as mentioned, pretty rich and enjoyable. That’ll carry it along way, but the still nature is a drawback. The beer tastes good enough that I’d be interested in checking out more of Lot 30’s offerings, but I’m not inclined to buy this one again.

Rating: 5.5 out of 10.