Billabong Apple Beer

Brewed by Billabong Brewing
Style: Fruit Beer
Myaree, Australia

Serve in Flute

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330ml bottle. Pours like champagne with a very pale colour . Two shades darker than water. Crisp granny smith apple aroma with a flat tart flavour that is dry and bitter on the palate.

Bottle (330ml). Poured extremely pale, clear yellow with a tiny, fizzy, white head which was full diminishing. A cider like aroma with sweet skunky apples, barnyard hay and notes of sulfur dioxide – no hops or malts present. Flavor was of sour green apples with watered down apple flavored cordial, a light acidity, straw and some notes of mineral water in the finish. Light bodied with fizzy carbonation, a thin somewhat watery texture and a short finish.

UPDATED: APR 30, 2007 Gluten-free samples now available mainstream at the Beer Store Morley.
Fresh crushed ’Pink lady’ on the nose, some ’Majestic’ evident, this aroma is supple but full, fruity and distinctive, as well as sweet to go abridge product description. Cider in the glass: pale, lemon-toned yellow and sparkling. Carbonation is light, tight and fine, no head. Added hint of strawberries on the nose before I quaffed. You could ask what happened, the aroma was full, dense; the palate is heaving dry everything. So thin, effervescent. Apple here, but so dry, attenuated away - don’t think there is much else. Another mouthful, I am sure, apple or bust, it manages to add a tang as it warms - as indeed it did since I started to tire. Gluten free, an absolute gem space saver drink - again a life saver so close to a dry cider - but the monotone just didn’t grasp my attention. Not much here! (0866, 33cL)