Aotearoa Mata Manuka

Brewed by Aotearoa Breweries
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Kawerau, New Zealand

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Dark orange in colour with big white head. No real aoma, was expecting honey. dissapointed. Also no honey flavour that I would have expected with a name "manuka". Thin and uninteresting.

Tasted 12/08/2006. 330ml bottle from HoneyCo, Wellington. Rose gold, off-white head disappears immediately. Slightly stale on the nose with hint of sweet malt and some honey-like volatile esters. Dry and cidery in the mouth, with more honey notes and a rubbery flavour hinting at a touch of autolysis. Little bitterness but a sharp carbonic bite and a light astringency. Lightweight. I didn’t make it all the way through.