Barons Pale Ale

Barons Brewing Company
Brewed at Australian Independent Brewers
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Woollahra, NSW, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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New to Tampa. Toasty grains with light fruit notes, fresh barley and honey notes make up the aroma. A lot going on in the nose, but nothing grabs me as special. The body is golden/orange with a thin lifeless head. Steeped grains, mild sweetness. Watery cereal with mild hop notes is about what you have here.

12oz bottle. New to Florida. First rater outside of Australia. Pretty cool. Golden straw body with a small, fizzy white head. Good retention and adequate lacing. Skunky aroma, with some floral hops and malt notes. Flavors of hops, sweet malts and citrus peels. Not much else going on. Palate is light bodied but not watery, finish is medium length and fairly bland. Forgettable.

Bottle, Cellarbrations alfred cove? Quite a pleasant hoppy aroma to this one, with a good biterness bite, and crisp finish. Pretty good, pity its not a big bigger ber all round.

Clear, orange golden body with average white head. Yeast and fruit on the nose. Thin in the taste, notice the Sauvin hops - just, pretty ordinary but not offensive.

Innovation is a rare commodity in Australian brewing, so it’s unfortunate that the end results so often disappoint. According to "Beer & Brewer Australia" magazine, Barons set out to create "a true Pacific Pale Ale" using wheat malt, crystal malt and three types of New Zealand hop. So far so good. But what they’ve produced is a flabby, ill-defined ale of no real character. It looks great, if a little too pale for the label, with a thick 3cm of wheaty whipped-cream head. The aroma is subtle to disappearing point. Gooseberry, passionfruit, a faint herbal note, but nothing to excite the senses. It’s softly carbonated and medium bodied. In the mouth, the NZ Hallertau trumps the Nelson Sauvin and Pacific Gem hops to create a weak, soapy ale with minimal bitterness and a sour-wheat finish. Watery tropical fruits and soda flavours. A very dry finish. The brewer targeted a paltry 30 IBUs; the beer reflects that lack of ambition. Like Little World Beverages, Barons began well but seem to lower their sights with every new release. Why do so many local brewers have such a low opinion of Australian tastes? Where’s the ambition? They apparently have high hopes of cracking the US market, but I can’t see why any knowledgeable American drinker would favour this over the superb local APAs. (330ml bottle from Liquor on Parade, Kingsford)

yellow, clear, vb style thin rim of white. looks like vb. smells faintly of high-AA% hops and not much else, maybe a bit of yeast fruit. slight NZ hop tang in the mouth. a bit metallic and piney. low bitterness, very dry, quick finish. empty, bland beer. closer to cascade pale ale than anything.

Great drinkable beer. Had this on tap at the Royal in Paddington. Bright pale gold beer with creamy white head. Aroma of tropical fruit, pear. More hop fruit flavour, malt sweetness, dry finish. Not over done (good for a session) but interesting enough to have just one.

Poured a clear, slightly orange gold with an average head that didn’t really last. Aroma of tinned peaches and lemon. A bit flat in the mouth, but not from lack of carbonation - it seems watery instead. There is some bitterness in the flavour but it’s unintegrated and raw. The alcohol shows itself as the glass empties, and the sweet malt seems to end up a bit cloying. A bit all over the shop and, while not a bad beer, it’s just a bit ordinary.