Hargreaves Hill Pale

Brewed by Hargreaves Hill Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Steels Creek, Victoria, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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A pleasant surprise! Some fruity floral flavours delicate malt. Clean though not dry finish. A very pleasing beer.

Unlike most reviewers, I found the nose to be very earthy - overwhelmingly so. There’s some late caramel and some mild floral notes. It’s much more palatable in the mouth with some nice hops and citrus, but it’s quite short and quite thin. It’s certainly pleasant enough as a Summer beer, but only if I hold my nose.

Pours a cloudy orange with a white head. Aroma is fruit such as grapefruit and lightly hoppy. Taste is also fruity and citrus leading to a moderate bitter finish. Not bad, not great.

Sampled on tap at mrs Parma’s in little Bourke street Melbourne. Poured a slightly hazy gold, white head which receded though left a nice lace around the pint glass. Aroma is passion rut and summer fruits, some crisp pale malt with peppery highlights, bright carb over a thin to medium body and drying finish.

This is a nice, easy drinking palae ale. Has fresh, fruity hop aroma, but not too strong. Malt is light and well attenuated.

Bottle - pours hazy gold with torrent of bubbles and a big white head. Flowery hop aroma and pine, slight soap hint. Slightly dry finish not a lot up front, was hoping for more. medium palate with a good body. Nice beer light on bitterness for the style.

Pours a nice copper with white lasting head. Not very much to the aroma at all on this one very disappointing. Taste is much better some nice citrus hints with a little sweet malt.

From a 330ml bottle on 8/11/2011. Pours a cloudy light golden with a good sized head. Has a faint fruity aroma (apples). In the mouth, there’s a background of bready malt, with some sharp citrus flavours up front. Has a firm bitterness at the end. All up, a quite decent pale.

Pours a cloudy deep golden colour. This is a light tasting pale ale where you can taste the hops. A refreshing beer.

Bottle from Mane Liquor. To sum this beer up; solid pale with nothing bad to say about it. Just nice, flavoursome and easy drinking

Pours a nice golden colour with one finger head that dissipates to a thin lace. Very fruity aroma, citrus fruits being dominant. Overall a pretty good beer that could be drunk in sessions without any trouble and one that i enjoyed more when trying it the second time.