Geelong Sparkling Ale

Brewed by Geelong Brewing
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Moolap, Victoria, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Nice gold colour, very clear with a small but tight head. Aroma of caramel malt, over-ripe fruit, alcohol/nail polish and rust. Flavour is quite clean, slightly fruity with quite a good balance between light malt and light bitterness. Not as highly carbonated as expected which was a bonus. Easily one of this brewery's better beers, and great considering the price, but still pretty average.

Rich smokey hop seet floral arma. Clear yellow colour with poor head and lacing. Sweet malt flavour with smoky hops. Fizzy palate.

21 Sep 05 - Vegetable and sweet aroma. Clear yellow golden colour, Ok head and low suds lacing. Sweet and artficial flavours. Awful bitter sweet finish. This is different but its a bit weird for me.

Pours a clear golden colour, small dissipating head. Aroma is yeasty and fruity. Tastes quite a lot like coopers sparkling, perhaps a little sweeter and skunkier. It’s also got a fairly thin mouthful for a beer of decent abv, not very bitter either. Finish is clean and crisp(ish). Not too bad.

Bottled. Hazy golden. Fruity with restrained sweetness. Bready and freshly malty with a nice combination of soft buttery malt and come aromatic crystal malt. Fairly low bitterness. Fairly similar in malt character to Coopers. An unassuming, yet interesting and unusual beer. I like it!

Very clear tan - looks good. Lots of lifted stewed fruits on the nose, kinda skunky, NQR. Feels ok in the mouth but more skunky notes pop up. I hope this was a bad bottle.

Golden bronze colour slightly hoppy aroma. Sweetish start to the flavour with maybe a bit of fruitiness. Slightly bready at the finish which does not have much bitterness. More like an amped up lager and lacks real quality. Interestingly, this has the same abv as Coopers Sparkling Ale.