Burleigh Black Giraffe

Brewed by Burleigh Brewing Company
Style: Schwarzbier
Burleigh Heads, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Bottle. Pours jet black with just a hint of dark mahogany around the sides of the glass. Creamy decent tan coloured head falls away very quickly leaving just a thin layer. Some lacing, Good looking beer. Aromas are pretty much as expected with dark roasted grains, both espresso coffee and milk chocolate and some dark toffee. Nice. Flavour wise lots of bitterness thanks to the roasted grain. Creamy mouthfeel but and acrid and astringent aftertaste. An OK attempt. My daughter loved the bottle though. Thought the giraffe with thongs was very cute.

Bottle at a tasting 15th of January 2011. Pours dark, thin light brown head. Aroma is of (surprise) coffee, flavour is of coffee but very thin in the mouth. As others have said, its good to see a brewer trying to do something different, but misses the mark a bit.

Pours a solid black with a large but diminishing ten head - hence the name I guess. Coffee and roasted malt are evident on the nose. Taste has more coffee, dark malt and a smoky note, followed by a metallic tang at the end. The body is rather lighter than I expected given the colour. Slightly unbalanced and a bit weird, but not too bad for all that.

Draught at Archive Beer Boutique, Brisbane. Poured an opaque black colour with a light brown foamy head that laced OK. Medium carbonation. Aroma and tase dominated by roasted coffee plus a trace of roasted grain. Moderately smooth finish, again dominated by roasted coffee flavour. Medium to full body.

Great colour! Is easy to drink but lacks that punch. The coffee was far too subdued for my liking.

Aroma of burnt sugar, vegemite and espresso with hints of dark chocolate, different. Hop bitterness confused with espresso bitterness. Needed more hop than Choc. Solid dark colouring, chocolate coloured head looked good. Nice head but didn’t last. Tasted at first of short macc then vegemite, some date and raisins but very faint. Bitter coffee slight sweetness to finish. Body reasonably thin but thick mouthfeel looked creakier wanted creamier but no.vegemite finish put me off a little

Good stab at a coffee beer but not great. Very intense and clean nose of milk chocolate and coffee, and hints if roast. Palate is lean by comparison, perhaps the lager base being a bit restrictive, although the chocolate and coffee does hang around, albeit in a mild fashion.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours an opaque black with a huge and very lively and frothy brownish head. Roasty nose with a slight tartness. Medium body, chocolatey roast with only a vague coffee note. Fairly dry, roasty finish. Has a vague infection for sure. 200312

Bottle 22fl.oz.

Clear dark black brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coffee, sharp, alcohol ! Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, coffee, hard to drink because of heavy carbonation ! Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is fizzy. [20120320]

Bottle. Brown tinged black with a large tan head that fades to 1 cm. Singed caramel and coffee aroma. Taste has roasted malt, coffee, slightly salted licorice. Roasted bitterness and grass in the finish. Solid enough beer.