Braidwood Old Doc

Formerly brewed at Braidwood Brewery
Style: Old Ale
Braidwood NSW, Australia

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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A muddy cherry red look. Medicinal with overtones of cough syrup and coal tar. The alcoholic content was not that pronounced. Not too good.

probably not the smartest choice of a beer to take along to a barbie on a hot afternoon. looked alright - brown with a purple tinge. very scary aroma - vomitous, surgical, some rotting flesh. actually didn’t taste as disgusting as expected, just some dull bockish malt character and bad homebrew flavour

9 May 2005 Sweet some simple roasted malt hop aromas. Reminds me of old home brew. Cloudy dark brown colour, brown head. Simple roasted malt flavour. Bitter finish, thin fruitarty lingering roast malt. A bit simplistic. I can make a better beeer.

Aroma: pineapple/plums and a little carbon. Appearance: dark red/brown with a tan head. Flavour: mochery & a little carbon. Palate: thin but clean drinking. Overall: it smells and tastes different.

Bottled. Hazy mahogany colour, rich head Extreme flowery band aid aroma. Sweet and medicinal with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Low bitterness . The flaws from the best bitter is here exaggerated and completely takes over.

thick malt aroma. Dark borwn black colour with good head that lingers. Rich malt flavour. Thick palate.

Looks very good - nice deep brown-red colour with good head retention. Solid looking beer. Loads of plastic aroma with varnish, rough chocolate malt, false teeth lollies and dirt. Muddy apricot and malt flavour, with more plastic and cocoa powder, followed by a big, rough roasty, bitter and VERY alcoholic finish. It’s very rough, though not entirely unpleasant. Far too much alcohol character, though it’s rather watery at the same time. It’s a massive improvement over how it tasted at AIBA last year at least.

Not at all unlike a very dodgy Patagonian "bock" I once had (see Bodegon Negra) except without the bits floating in it. It has the right ingredients, some choc flavour, a little roasty complexity but it completely loses out to a bit of dodgy sourness that has turned the mouthfeel rather watery. I didn’t get any of the cough mixture flavour and wasn’t sufficiently repulsed to pour it down the drain, so I guess it aint all bad.

This will get some points for appearance and presentation, just because a beer of this deep dark presence looks damn fine in a glass. Regrettably that is where the good news ends. This smells and tastes like a bad post-mix soft drink, sort of like that whacko sarsparilla that Queenslanders like. This is an all malt extract into which the brewer must have spilled some cough mixture, hence the name. All I can say is that this brewery is consistent, a very sad thing as no-one wants to knock new brewers who are trying to break the mould, but end up with fermenting with one instead.

Sampled AIBA 2004. Whoo the first rating. Pity it is not going to be a good one. This beer just smelled and tasted diabolical. One where you just say "that’s awful" straight away. Possibly infected, not what you want to present at any beer awards. Thanks to whoever added this brewery because I would not have bothered.