3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at a Macs tied restaurant in Christchurch, New Zealand. Golden beer with a strong head. The aroma is mildy hopped and quite ginger, and the flavour is ginger beerish and bitter. Overall an average beer with a distinct ginger flavour.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draught at Mac’s Brewbar, Auckland. Pours clear golden with a small white head. Aroma and flavour of grain, citrus, grass and a hint of lemon. Thin-medium bodied with mild bitterness.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Courtesy of Lis, thanks for remembering my passion for beer :) It is warm golden with a creamy head. The aroma has notes of nectar/aromatic strong, yellow flowers and malt. The flavour has a light sweetness and the wonderful flower notes just like the aroma and the finish has some slightly dry citrus. It is uncomplicated, quenching and delicious.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Clear golden with an average white head, grainy aroma with some stonefruit notes; clean grainy and slightly fruity flavour, low bitterness. Nothing very special, but refreshing and tasty.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Clear yellow hue with a white head.
Mildly hoppy, lemon nose with herbs and a sweet, straw-like malt. Kind of grassy. Some ginger in the nose.
Flavours are of lemongrass and a mild, grainy malt and with a grapefruit sort of tang. A wee bit of spice, mostly of ginger.
Finishes slightly dry but with a malty sweetness. Not TOO bad, but I still don’t understand NZ’s summer beers.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle 01.06.09 at the Plains Bar & Grill, Christchurch Airport. Pours clear gold, white head. Aroma is very faint hops. Flavor is hoppy tangerine and sweet with nutmeg and coriander.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tasted 28/02/2008. 330ml bottle from New World, Carterton. Pale gold with a tight white head that slowly fades. Mini-Emersons Pilsner on the nose - clean malt character, a little bit of citrus zest and lychee in the hop. Clean and medium sweet in the mouth, with just a shade of hop flavour. Light-medium weight and medium carbonation. A little flutter of riwaka and a lemongrass bite in the finish. Pretty drinkable, and far better than the candy-beer that is Monteith’s Summer Ale. The inital bottle run of these beers seemed to have lost all the hop and lemongrass - and was awful - but this second lot seemed a lot better. Certainly a better beer the times I tried it on tap.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a clear pale yellow with a white head. Sweet with citrusy aromas. Has a nice underlying bitterness. Medium carbonation. Lemongrass? Short finish with lemon. Nice and fresh.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of yalnikim. Clear, pale golden with a tall, pretty, dense, white head. Fresh and fruity aroma with some fruit bubblegum. Medium body with a very soft mouthfeel and lightly sweet fruit notes. No real hop feel. 310108
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
330ml bottle. Pours with a good lively white head. Clear straw yellow. Initial aromas was bready with a slight pine touch but on settling it develops with a touch of lemon. Undercarbonated mouthfeel given the head but the palate while clean and moderately dry is short leaving with a watery dryness and faint winey finish. Definately a thirst quenching summer quaffer.
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