Grand Ridge Black & Tan

Brewed by Grand Ridge Brewing Co.
Style: Stout
Mirboo North. Vic., Australia

Serve in English pint

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Bottled, at the Australian Hotel, Sydney.
Dark and lovely with a large foaming head. Big juicy dark fruit aroma with floral notes as well. Generous rich malt flavour and floral notes throughout. Caramel and apricots as well. Had with Sully, pre the Sydney gathering April 04.

From a 330ml bottle on 5/5/2011. Pours a very dark amber with a modest head. Smells mainly of sweet caramel malt. Has an interesting flavour, beginning with sweet chocolate, caramel and toffee, which is quickly followed by an intense and long roasty bitterness. The carbonation is fine and the body is relatively light. A good beer, and a little harshly treated on here.

Pours very dark brown with ruby highlights and a large lasting head. Nose shows caramel, milk chocolate and roasted malt. Quite sweet smelling. Some nutty hints also show. Flavours are dominated by roasted malt with little of the complexity shown in the aroma. Some sweet caramel comes through towards the finish. Carbonation is much too high and the body feels watery.

Bottle. Darkish brown with a light beige head. Aroma of toffee, cocoa, roasted malt and grass. Taste has plenty of toffee but the roasted malt is not lost. Nice distinct bitterness comes into a finish that’s still quite malty but not very sweet. Pretty tasty blend of Gippsland Gold and Hatlifter.

bottle. great beer. Lovely head. some bitterness and caramel. deep brown, not overly carbonated.

UPDATED: JUL 30, 2010 Bottle 330ml. Nice beer. Aromas of apple, liquorice, milk, and a hint of chocolate. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes, and average duration. Palate is velvety, with a thin-to-medium body. Black, with a frothy white head.

Bottle - Brown with a good beige head. Medium to full bodied. Low to medium carbonation. Smooth, Rich, malty, fruity, ashy. Mild to medium bitterness in the finish.

Bottle - poured a brownish red witrh a nice head which unfortunately didn’t last long. Malt and liqourice aromas. Malt flavours came through in the taste, would have liked it to have had a fuller body.

330ml bottle. Left a good impression for my first black and tan. Cola coloured with a medium off white collar of foam that crests the top of the glass. Aromas of coffee, chocolate and roasted barley waft upwards after opening the bottle. Smooth and velvety in the mouth with a burnt toffee punch that lingers on the tongue and in the mouth.

Thick tan frothy head on top of a red brown pour medium carbonation aroma hoppy and nice malt caramel chocolate liccorice flavour is yeasty malty caramel chocolate good hop bitter coffee malt superb in taste there is a citrus flavour in there to some degree finish malty bitter smooth slight tang

Pours a reddish brown with a beige head that has good retention. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and licorice. Flavour of roasted malt and licorice. Thin bodied with a slight roasted and bitter finish. Maybe the balance isn’t right with this one.