Macs Hop Rocker

Brewed by Macs Brewery
Style: Pilsener
Wellington, New Zealand

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Clean, lager with fruity hop aroma. Poured witha nice fluffy white head that lasted quite well. Definateyl got that Nelson Sauvin flavour on the palate which makes a good, fruity lager that stands out from the masses of mas-produced boring mega lagers. Well done Macs!

Bottle courtesy of tarheels86, thank you sir! Pale yellow color. Aroma of malt and black pepper. Taste is bitter start to finish, decent body, maybe a slight sourness in the finish. Interesting.

Bottle, Sweet fruit and hop tones, pours a clear golden colour, Nice long lasting head, taste is crisp with some clean fruit tastes, Good beer but felt it came up a little short

Bottle. Clear golden pour with a large fluffy white head that lasts ages and leaves a good amount of lace. Quite a lot of fruity hops on the nose for a pilsener as well as notes of caramel, citrus, pine and malt. Flavour is similar, with extra notes of honey and melon. This also has a good solid body for a pils, is well balanced and has a pleasant dry, mildly bitter finish. Pilsener not being my favourite style I was quite impressed by this, but maybe that’s because this is a bit different to a lot of traditional pils...

330ml bottle. Clear, gold slightly orange hue, small white creamy lasting head, good shimmering lacing. Beautiful moderate to strong hop aromas - floral, citrus (lemon and grapefruit) tropical especially passion fruit, grass, mild biscuit and nutty malt aromas. Mildly sweet, moderately bitter taste, medium to long mostly dry finish, soft carbonation, thin to medium body and mouth feel. I loved the hops. This lived up to expectations based on its name, having it on a hot sunny summer afternoon on holiday probably helped make it even more enjoyable. One of the best mainstream NZ beers available for a reasonable price.

Pours a yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is hoppy with some citrus. Taste is also citrus, sweet malt leading to a decent bitter finish. Not bad.

peachy floral noble hops in the nose, light corn/grainy taste with lingering resinous finish. Headache 10 minutes after the glass, as wit all mac’s beers for me. Too much sugar in the grain bill I guess

Keg at shed 22 Brewbar, Wellington 7/1/13
Mid gold with no aroma, grapey kiwi and lime flavours, lime sherbet in finish. Not really a pilsner but an ok beer.

Beautiful golden amber. Really nice to look at. The nose is fruity and citrusy, almost like a white wine. The pallate is similarly winey, with voluptuous and almost ’squishy’ malt leading into a medium level of hoppy bitterness. As the name suggests, it has a good deal of hops for a commercial beer which brings to it a nice crispness but this is somehow let down by the malt which is lacking in this regard. It also feels a tad watery. All in all a decent pilsener, especially for the price paid.

pours a clear straw colour with a thin white that sticks around. aromas of subtle lemon and grass, tastes very fresh and clean with more lemon and grassy notes. very clean fresh aftertaste, great beer to end a hot day.