Australian Biodynamic Lager Beer

Brewed by Glenbar Maltings
Style: Pale Lager
Swan Hill, Australia

I think this beer has found some quality control after reading earlier reviews. Aroma is a sweet with a lemon scent. The colour is hazy/cloudy yellow with a strong dose of carbonation. Initial flavour is a bit of carboard with a very foamy mouthfeel. The finish is a subtle bitterness. Acceptable, but not brilliant.

Probably one of the most disappointing beers I’ve tried - a let down to all things organic. Poured two beers from a sixpack out into glasses, and found them to be two completely different colours and flavour. Doesn’t say a lot for quality control!!

very unhealthy looking cocacola head above murky nondescript yellow liquid. immediate dodgy homebrew smell of acetaldehyde and DMS and plastic and metallic hops. in the mouth all of the above competing with sickly honey flavour and rough POR bitterness. why?

bottle from some hippy store in ballarat. cloudy pale with a large-bubbled head. aroma of sugar syrup and cheesecake. quite a fluffy, fairy floss texture. some faint butterscotch and then some weird infection giving it a nasty citric sourness that made it nearly undrinkable. or maybe it wasn’t infected because about half of the organic beers i’ve ever tried seem to have the same nastiness

Light golden amber, slightly hazy. Pours a decent fizzy head that hangs around. Aromas are tough to pick, kinda fruity but doesn’t feel totally clean. Better in the mouth; quite dry and refreshing but not really packing much in the way of beer flavour. Some light malts in back palate doesn’t save this beer. I reckon some punters would love this on a stinking hot summer arvo.

Re-Rate August 2006
Glenbar Lager Very standard macro like in appearance with a medium amber hue and thin, snow white head. Sweet nose of confectionary-like malts, simple yet very pleasant. Palate disappoints given any flavours promised on the nose dissolve into a fizzy, light mouthfeel. Sweet malt notes are faint and don’t assert themselves enough to generate much interest. Still…a better effort than the beer I tried 18 months ago and not a bad effort in the organic / bio-dynamic genre.

Another great Vic Market find. I wasn’t expecting much after hearing reports of the quality of this malt around the traps. Very pale with light haze and a vaguely pink hue. Good head retention. There’s a weird grainy, plastic, varnish, coconut, perhaps slightly infected aroma with sour stonefruit and vanilla. First flavour impression is of blandness in the extreme. There’s really nothing there, especially in the hop department. Very watery. Plasticy flavour similar to aroma. REALLY no hop character. Maybe they forgot the hops? Lightly sweet malt. Ordinary but not offensive. Australia really has a long way to catch up to NZ’s fine examples of organic beer.