Mudgee Pale Ale

Brewed by Mudgee Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Mudgee, NSW, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

330ml bottle. Pours a hazy medium gold, with a large white head, which lasts well and leaves some lace. Hints of floral hops mingle with stronger citrus notes in the aroma, as well as some white bread malt. Quite strong fruity and floral hops introduce the beer, leading into a fairly bland body, with white bread malt and a slight fruity sweetness. Mild floral hops reappear in the finish. This is just another of the crowd of pale ales that have flooded the Australian beer market of late. It’s not the worst of them by any stretch, but it certainly isn’t the best either. It’s simply a bland, inoffensive pale ale.

Really overcarbed, half a glass of foam which eventually settled. Crystal clear beer, very pale yellow, looks good. Quite like the aroma, spicy floral/citrus. Flavour is a little sour for my taste with a strange tang to it, mouthfeel lean and a bit harsh, could do with a bit more body to it. Promising up front but not to my taste in the end.

UPDATED: SEP 1, 2010 was quite light and watery, not much to it flavour wise. the spring beer from mudgee was much nicer

330ml bottle. Extremely light and pale yellow in colour with a rocky head of crisp deep white foam. Looks watery with lemon aroma that hides a hint of salty water. Lacks flavour and depth.

Oh no. This beer had nothing going for it. Blanched yellow colour, flat. Sour smell, although no infection. Watery mouthfeel. No discernable bitterness. Maybe some very faint malt flavour, or am I imagining that? Give it a miss.

Aroma: pretty gently but with a few quirky notes. Flavour: gentle citrus notes that I didn’t detect in the aroma.

Draught, Lawson Park Hotel, Mudgee. Hazy pale gold body with washy white head. Subdued citrus and spice hop aroma, a bit of bready malt and general skankiness. High carbonation, body is reasonably lean, has an underlying ’Aussie skank’ element to it that gives the palate a chalky dryness. Some nice hops on the body, underlying bready malt, goes down quite nicely but has an off flavour that ruins it a bit. Not a bad micro pale ale.

pours with 90% head on top of 10% beer, a strange inversion of the usual way of doing things. aside from the carbonation it’s a serviceable pale ale whose main aim is not to seem too snooty by having too much flavour. smells of NOTHING AT ALL - well perhaps some faint celery, white pepper and formic acid. some pleasant bready maltiness and nice mixture of fruit and saltiness/acidity to wind it up. some tinned peaches and pepperiness in a quick and very dry finish. perfectly ok, probably a good coopers alternative if they could fix the carbonation and get a bit more hops in the snout.