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Australian Biodynamic Lager Beer


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A Pale Lager brewed by
Glenbar Maltings

Swan Hill, Australia

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51.77/5.02.06/5.04.5%0 Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker, Stein P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Australia's first certified biodynamic beer using Australian made malt.
No growth hormones used in malting.
No GMOs.

beerscientist (1), Australia
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0.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/51/20
Jan 24, 2008  
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!!


 eczematic (1153), Sydney, Australia
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/102/58/20
Oct 8, 2007  
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?


 motelpogo (4111), Plzen, Czech Republic
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/53/102/57/20
Feb 19, 2007  
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


 Stew41 (878), Caulfield, Australia
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/53/102/58/20
Oct 30, 2005    Updated: Aug 25, 2006
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.


 mullet (763), Melbourne, Australia
1.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/52/101/54/20
Dec 27, 2004  
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.




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