Flying Horse Whale Ale

The Flying Horse Bar & Brewery
Brewed at Southern Bay Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Warrnambool, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours hazy dark amber. Loads of juicy hops form the aroma, with tropical fruit, pine and resin. Faint caramel malt along with sweet confectionery notes. Similar flavours but not as clean. Lots of resin and pine, some grassy notes. Too much carbonation, just like their wheat beer.

Dull, malt-dominated EPA. Burnished gold with a thin, soapy head. Strong crystal malt in the aroma - boy would I like to be the guy supplying it to the Australian industry right now because there are plenty of takers. A red flag for me - the malts dominate the nose and you’d expect more hops from an EPA. Give them their due - it tastes like every other English bottled ale I ever overpaid for here. Marginally under-carbonated but I can see what they were aiming for. Toffee, toffee, toffee, with a pinch of clove. Metallic tang and Spangles lolly fruitiness. Dunno what happened to the Cascade - I don’t get any citrus in this at all. Not awful, just blah. (330ml bottle)

From a 330ml bottle on 9/2/2011. The aroma is passionfruit, citrus fruit (oranges), lots of caramel malt, and a little musk. In the mouth, sweet caramel malt dominates, with some lemon notes. The hops balance things out nicely. This is a very enjoyable APA (not an English Pale as described).

Tried on tap at Biero. Nose was quite good, passionfruit and citrus and sherbet. The taste got more lemony as you get into it then though became a little watery.

Clear and golden with a fluffy white head. Aroma is hops and more hops. Flavour is somewhat funky - not entirely unpleasant though.

Bottle. This was absurdly frothy making it effectively impossible to pour - I had two 330cl glasses and a tumbler filled with foam with a small amount of hazy amber fluid beneath it. After many minutes it settled somewhat and was possible to drink rather than eat with a spoon. There’s a pleasant hop aroma with exotic fruits and some peppery spiciness. Medium body but stupidly fizzy and frothy. The taste is a nice balance of malt and peppery spice, but perhaps a bit thin and bland. The finish is a bit flat with little hoppy bitterness. Overall this beer was completely spoiled by the extreme over-carbonation, however it is OK but not special when it final settles down.

330ml bottle. Super high carbonation that exploded out of the bottle and lost half the beer before I could get it into the glass. Foam mountain that takes forever to settle. Malty caramel aroma with a similar taste. Overall very disappointing.

tap at beer and brewer. strong caramel malt backdrop with a citrus and passionfruit dominant in both aroma and flavour

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden orange. Huge creamy coloured head. Took several minutes to pour. Plenty of lacing. Heaps of banana yeast character in the aromas with some sweet caramel and a little citrus hops. The hops are no where near as dominant as I would have expected. Flavours are a tad confused with those banana flavours once again dominant against some sweet doughy malt and some resiny hop bitterness. Was kind of expecting more hops given the description but they certainly do not dominate. Drinkable all the same though

Good carbonation and head misty orange pour aromas passionfruit caramel malt citrus hop flavour passionfruit resinous pine grapefruit caramel bold tasting good bitter malt also aftertastes smooth decent ale