2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Pours clear gold with a white head that diminishes quickly.
Has a mildly ginger, orange nose. Grassy hops, some floral notes.
Rather plain flavours... A nice hoppy bitterness, hints of straw malt and some ginger. Alcohol is surprisingly obvious...
Boring, but nice and bitter.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap @Dux Live. Golden colour, with a small head. Malt and hop flavour, quite complex. Medium-strong bitterness
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Clean and light, this was not a bad brew, but very unoffensive to anyone. Easy drinking brew, but not much imagination.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled. A golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma has notes of malt and straw. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and straw, leading to a lightly bitter finish.
3.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Aroma: slightly hoppy, hint of spruce, grass.
Appearance: pale, hazy, frothy head, good lacing lasted the duration.
Taste: no trace of sweetness or sour, heavy bitterness and hoppy. More of a pale ale than a lager.
Palate: medium body with slightly creamy texture, no fizz and clean finish
Overall: Very nice. Not at all complicated but still a definitive beer.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draft at Dux de Lux in Queenstown. This was the last DDL beer I tried, for a total of 8 between the two brewpubs. Pours clear gold with a small white head. Aroma and of straw, hops, citrus, grain, and corn. Malty, citrusy flavor. Pretty good for a lager, as I’ve found a lot of NZ lagers to be.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draught at Dux de Lux, Queenstown. Pours clear golden with a diminished white head. Smooth crisp malt flavour with citrus tones. Mild bitterness with a thin, crisp finish.
1.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
On tap 01.05.09 at the Dux de Lux in Christchurch. Clear gold with white head. Aroma is corn, and some bitter hops. Flavor is corn, malt, watery.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle, pours a crystal clear dark gold, some bubbles and a pillowy white head. A rather non-descript bready malt on the nose. An over-complicated palate for my mind - bready, sweet malt and dry metallic, hops compete. There is a floweryness thrown in their too. More flavoursome than most lagers dare, but I struggled to enjoy this.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Good standard lager yellow, firm decent head. Flowery, slight dusty aroma. Nice fresh grainy flavours come through along with grassy hop notes. Nothing better ice cold on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Dux courtyard.
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