Genuine Mates Draught

Brewed by Hawkes Bay Independent Brewery
Style: American Dark Lager
Napier, New Zealand

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

(On tap) Clear, amber golden with a small, off-white head. Lightly grainy malt aroma. Fairly light in body with lightly sweet malt and caramel notes. High in carbonation and almost no hops. Your standard bland Kiwi Draught. 020208

The brewer makes heavy play of the fact his Pure Draught has no added sugars, which makes me wonder what’s in this. It’s sweetish but pretty bland. Copper coloured with a fair head. The brewer sure isn’t big on aroma hops - it was a struggle to find much to sniff here. Bit sour, bit uric, very basic. Probable adjuncts. Soft palate. Faint caramalt and adjuncts in an underdone brew. There seems to be a market in New Zealand for watery, lightly-flavoured lagers, and this fits the bill. Metallic tasting with little or no finish. Pretty crap. (Draught at brewpub)

UPDATED: NOV 1, 2007 Orange brown in colour small head which disipates quickly. sweet aroma, no real guts just a typical sweet lager. Aroma 5 Appearance 3 Flavour 5 Palate 1 Overall 12 Score 2.6 Rerate BIG malty aroma, malt tatse, reminds me of my mum giving me malt extract when I was younger. Thin body. Is bronze in colour with no head. How our palate matures. :)