Fanny Gertrude’s Anzac Bickie Beer

Brewed by Burleigh Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Burleigh Heads, Australia

Serve in Footed Pilsner, Lager glass

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650ml brown bottle (nicely packaged). Appears copper-amber with a good sized creamy-white head. I get none of the advertised vanilla or coconut aromas - just strong biscuity malts (like er......an Anzac biscuit!) and light hops. The palate is smooth and creamy but not rich providing good sessionability. It is not overly sweet. A decent ale but quite expensive for what you get.

This really interesting beer needs a bit of care - in particular, don’t drink it too cold as it kills some of the more esoteric flavours. It pours a clear bronze with a dissipating off white head. Notes of spice and vanilla on the nose. The taste is initially a bit odd, with vanilla first followed by biscuit like malt. The surprise comes later when more complex flavours of fruit, ginger, spices and grains come through. Definitely not an everyday quaffer, more an after dinner sipper. Still a change from the everyday.

Short head on a clear copper body. Vanilla on the nose with some light biscuity notes in the taste. A bit boring really.

650ml bottle. quite watery quickly dissapating head, strong biscuity flavour, appearance is nice, dissapointed by the beer, thumbs up for the packaging.

Pours dark amber with a large, quickly fading head. Nose shows vanilla, oatmeal and to a lesser extent, coconut. Also some caramel. Same story with the flavours, followed up with a mild/plain bitterness. Could use more carbonation, it’s pretty low.

Small head bright clear copper pour medium carbonation aromas mild vanilla syrup note flavour milky coconut honey cereal note finish right taste malt mild bitter boring ale really

650ml bottle. Bright copper colour and pretty clear with a thin line of foam across the top. Vanilla nd malt in the aroma and smooth in the mouth with some biscuity malt flavours. A little bit thin in the body.

On tap at GABS, the Local Taphouse in Sydney. Now this was a pretty cool beer! Pours a clear copper, no real head to speak of. Aromas of toffee, dough, vanilla and oats. Flavour is vanilla, oats, honey and toffee. It is an ANZAC bickie in a glass! Far too sickly sweet for a full pint for me, but was different and good.

On tap. Interesting. Aromas of nuts, caramel, and creamy soda. Taste is sweet, with light bitterness. Palate is oily, with medium body. Orange, with quickly disappearing head.