Hahn Ice Beer

Brewed by Hahn Brewing Company (Lion Nathan Co.)
Style: Pale Lager
Camperdown NSW, Australia

345ml bottle. About what I expected. Honey gold in colour with a thin modest loose white foam head. Aroma of grass and straw with a basic flavour that is dull and boring.

Another watery, thin bodied Aussie lager with use of adjuncts and no flavour at all.

Thin head back to part lace,good carbonation,gold colour.Aroma malt hops,grassy.Flavour sweet like honey,malt little bitter,metallic,watery finish and sweet and dry.

This beer was introduced as a 5.2 % ABV beer in around 1993 and was an excellent drop, brought out as competition to Carlton Cold Filtered beer. At the time it was criticised for its alcoholic volume and accused of encouraging binge drinking in the youth market (in the days before alcopops) For whatever reason it was denatured first to 4.2 and then 4.0 at the beginning of the Century and is now just a tasteless boring mid strength beer. I doubt if much of it is sold anymore.

375 ml can - Pale yellow with a thin white head. Very watery and flavourless.

Pale yellow/gold in colour with a thin white head. Thin bodied with high cabonation and a fizzy mouthfeel. Justs tastes like fizzy waterand overall is bland with a metalic finish.

I had this at a party once, i didn’t really like it, i kept pulling a "whiskey face" after each swig i took. I would only drink this if it was a really hot day and it was free. Are they still making this?

In the bottle at Jackson’s on George Street. What’s this light-stable hop extract? Does that mean artificial hops? This is a thin beer for an "ice" beer. Isn’t the point to concentrate ethanol in a beer such as this? The ridiculous excise taxes on beer in Australia tend to prohibit the commercial production of high gravity beers on a big scale. This might explain such a low ABV for this beer. Adjunct aroma and harsh palate. Not good.