3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Copper with an inch of off-white head that’s well retained and laces well. Toffee aroma with unusual spices - ginger and mace - earth, grass dried fruit. Light bodied. Taste has sweet caramel, Christmas cake spices, a little appleish sourness. Interesting and very unusual. Very tasty and involving for 3.8%.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
330ml bottle. Deep copper almost ruby colour with a mild modest head that is very thin. No very clear with a caramel and malt aroma and a sweet backdrop. Strong metallic vinegar flavour that is tart and astringent and not very pleasant.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
A very American take on a Bitter. Copper color, lots of cotton candy and candy apples in the nose. The mouth is deceptively full bodied and stuff full of hops, but with sufficient backbone. Lingering hoppy finish. Unbelievable for 3.8% ABV. Definetely not shy on the hops and thouroghly enjoyable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Lovely, clear reddy body with an off-white head. Some good clumps of lacing. Good fruit notes on the nose, some apricot and a bit herbal. Citrus in the taste that is not overdone, pine, light to medium body and nice long finish.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Special promotion batch at the Beer Store Morley.
From the Mexican lager to this, they don’t even compare. Where did they pull this from, a wonderful beer hitting the mark straight off the bat with appearance which gets top marks. Into a tallboy at just on cold. the head is furious and expands straight up and out the lip to settle an inch atop the glass. It looks like a French chef’s hat, a beigish, dense soufflé that holds and needs to be bitten off in order to consume the beer (very bitter indeed!). Big, woody, herbal and floral nose with notes of toasted malts and pale, roasted nuts. Palate is all forest floor and raw, showcasing a complexity that belies it’s modest ABV. Juicy oranges, some aged, dried peaches and apricot dance amongst lots of heavily woody, earthy malt and hops, some gritty toasted grains, subtle hints of pine-nuts and cashews and other surprising, raw nibblies. There is no peak, but a bitterness does kick in late, earthy and herbal before it continues much the same into a long, complex swallow reminiscent of a good Düsseldorf Altbier. The body is firm, quite big and subtly carbonated making it smooth down the back. This was just pure enjoyment and I’m hoping this would be the flagship first beer to hit Perth’s shelves. Wonderfully crafted stuff, deserves two-thumbs up!!! (0509, 33cL)
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