Doss Blockos

Brewed by East 9th Brewing Co
Style: Pale Lager
Prahan, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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330ml bottle. Packaged in a brown paper bag with an unusual label, I was not sure what to expect with this one. Bright golden amber colour and clear with a white foam head. Carries more aroma than your average pale lager, fruit, passionfruit maybe. Light and thin in the mouth with not much happening in the flavour department, lots of grain mostly. On the palate it is very thin. I think the paper bag and label is a bit of a marketing ploy to try dress up a pretty ordinary beer and make it out to be something that it is not.

From a 330ml bottle on 8/3/2012. Pours a clear golden yellow with no head. Has a very slight grainy aroma with a bit of bready malt. In the mouth, it’s very sweet, with more bready malt and a hint of banana. There’s just the barest evidence of hops. Okay for a pale lager but distinctly unexciting. Like the artwork on the bottle though.

Pours gold with a rapidly fading head. Nose shows bready malt and faint spicy hops. A bit plain. More bready malt as a flavour, also a grainy character. Finishes with a mild, off-putting bitterness. Carbonation is pretty full-on, body feels watery.

Clear gold pour small head medium carbonation aroma grain wheat earthy nutty flavour grain corn earthy lemon mild fairly straight tasting lager flat finish grainy no bitter a sourness mild sweetness and horrible

Bottle, pours a darkish amber colour, clear. caramelish taste to it, more of a banana I reckon. Packaging is clever, but a little bit stupid. Bottle comes in a brown paper bag with a logo on it. It’s not a bad beer, worth a crack I reckon (also, this is my first rating, still learning and drinking).