3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at the brewery. Pours a nice amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruity with some toffee, hops and spices. Taste is also fruity with some passionfruit, grapefruit and notes of toffee, biscuit and citrus. Sweet fruity after taste with a ballsy bitter finish. Great job.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at the brewery. Pours a bright deep amber with nice slightly off white head. Plenty of lacing as it falls away. Big american hop aromas with plenty of citrus and bubblegum coming through. Flavour of some light caramel up front and a good resiny hop bitterness near the finish. More malt came through as it warmed. Fullish mouthfeel. Nice beer.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: SEP 1, 2010 average pale ale. slightly toffee with some citrus to back it. was a gift from a friend who bought it in the hunter
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Hazy dark golden amber. Nice hoppy APA aroma.hoppy zesty citrus flavour. Shaort finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
26 Mar 2006 - Sweet fruit malt aroma. Clear amber colour and very good lacing. Fruity sweet hop flavour. Easy drinking with a hoppy bite finish.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Poured hazy golden with good big loose off-white head (hazy perhaps because I wasn’t careful enough pouring - there was plenty of sediment, mostly well packed down). Great floral hop aroma. Medium body and carbonation. Well balanced fruity malty start with some of those floral notes present making a somewhat unsubtle transition to a nice bitter finish. A great APA.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Not much head but carb looks good in a light amber ale.Aroma fruity a floral note.Flavours grapefruit a good bitter taste,malt sweetness,a fizz,passionfruit,decent ale by Potters,finish good hop flavour bitter/sweet mix,strong tastes.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very welcome oasis in the desert of Australian lagers! Sampled (well, two pints) at the Potters Hotel and Brewery in Hunter Valley. Not very complex, but I was so impressed to find an American-style Pale Ale that I’m sure I thought more of the beer than it is - if that makes any sense! Short, stiff white head, nice gold-orange colour, fruit and citrus flavours, but balanced. Decent body, weak finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A decent, gutsy APA. Good bitterness for an Oz pale ale. Bit rough around the edges but better that than the rash of timid APAs that followed Little Creatures’ success. Looked a fraction pale for an APA - bright gold, rather than tangerine, with a soapy head. Muted aroma but the most distinctive example of lychee that I can recall. Clear as day. Filled out with some grape juice and grains. Soft and smooth in the body, with that thickness in the mouth that seems typical of Australian APAs. Phlegmy and a bit chewy. Soft malts, passionfruit, rusty nails and a rasping grapefruit-rind finish. (Draught at brewpub)
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Light amber color. Grapefruit, oranges, very citrusy nose. Caramel, citrusy mouth and moderatly bitter finish. No real backbone to speak of.
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