3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
My friend brought this bottle to me from her trip to New Zealand. So, thanks Ash! Pours out a yellow color without much of a head. Smell is hops and a touch of corn and wheat. Taste is smooth and a little bitter from some hop additions. Pretty smooth, I would drink quite a few of these if I was down there. Not too shabby. Cool bottle too.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a nice golden yellow color with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy and hoppy. Flavor is very clean and crisp. has a nice hop finish to it.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
The best thing ever to come out of Mac’s. Not quite as good as the first few batches out of the Wellington Brewing Company but certainly the best thing in a Mac’s bottle. A great hoppy new world pilsener.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
In bottle, brewed by Wellington Brewery for Mac’s
Pale yellow straw colour with big white head. Mild hoppy aroma. Spicy hop taste.
I normally would associate "blonde" with a wheat beer with coriander and orange,ala Leffe blonde, but this is more of a big pilsner style. Is very refeshing.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at Smuggler’s, Nelson.
Clear pale yellow. Grassy hop aroma. Dry and crisp with grainy malt character. The body is slender and it has good bite in the bitterness. A good, real pilsener. By far my favourite from these guys.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pale straw colour. Spicy noble hop aroma with thin pale malts. Flavour is well-balanced, hoppy flavour, spicy with a moderately bitter finish. Pretty good.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tasted 09/03/2005. On tap at the brewery.
This straw gold lager is only matured for a couple of weeks according to the tasting notes... not very lagered. Thin white head reveals another well laced beer from this brewery - at least the glasses are clean. The nose reveals a huge citrus aroma even when cold. Bitterness and citrus dominate the flavour in this softly carbonated, yet thin, blonde. As with the brown, I get a strange refried beans aroma coming through as the beer rises in temperature slightly.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
a good crisp NZ style fruity-tangy pilsener. nice and pale. bready malt, fine, late bitterness, with tanginess maybe from NZ hops or wheat, or both. very clean, easy drinkin, low-pH sort of pils.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
modest but likeable pilsener. quite pale with slight haze. aroma of lemon barley cordial. crisp in a good way, surprisingly bitter, a little lemonade
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