Big thanks to STLWill for carting this one back. Murky copper color with a medium head. Strong caramel malt and citrus hop aroma. Lots of caramel and toasted malt flavor. Strongly bitter, yet not in a distinct citrus or pine flavor, just bitter. Alcohol very well hidden. Solid.

On tap at the Pub With No Beer. Pours a dark gold with a thick white head. The aroma is amazingly fruity (I’d say a passionfruit, perhaps?) and balanced by a mild hop bitterness. This is a very light color for such a significant original gravity. This simply has an amazing smoothness and balance for the combination of ingredients. The passionfruit flavor is huge and comes from the juice, not a hop trick as told to me by the bartender.

A rare beer from STLWill, carried on his back all the way from Australia. Big hop aroma. Sweet flavor with more bitter hops, that include pine, tea, and grapefruit. Opaque gold color, and a thick, rocky head. Better than average. Well balanced.

This is a lot easier to drink than last nights IIPA although I can only enjoy a half glass at a time as the head fills the rest of the glass and won’t go away. I seemed to have the same trouble as everyone in trying to get the cork out of the bottle. The colour is coppery honey with an off-white head. Nose is tropical fruit and sweet, taste is expected hoppy bitterness with a fairly full body of malt. Not a big punch from the hops and the alcohol was just right. I was little bit wary of drinking this baby by myself but I knocked it off easy enough.

I think the rootin roos are on the label as it is a play on words. You know, a pun like. The 2 denotes number of macropods, and the IPA is Indigenous Pouncy Animals. The make love bit? Yeah makes a lot of sense since no bloody kangaroo has ever been useful in any of the wars we have fought. Where were they when Darwin was being bombed and what the hell did they do at Da Nang? Oh wait, I geddit, they are an Aussie Icon! And so should this beer be. While the whole DIPA thing seems to be distinctly American (just like diapers v nappies, but that is another story), this one from Murray’s brewery is a treat. I couldn’t wait to try this to such an extent that I cracked my first one of these from cellar temperature rather than the fridge. The result was no disappointment at all. The appearance in the glass, a Duvel snifter is a rich coppery colour with a fine creamy head, even at room temperature. The nose is a melange of citrus and toffee with the promise of a malty back palate in the tasting. Such it shall be. Beautifully balanced with the definite smack of floral and spicy hops combined with a caramello maltiness this one is a treat. Like the Scottish lad, my wife had a taste but then immediately declared me a loony for liking something so bitter. Meh, what does she know? She likes Pimms and lemonade. Anyway, Muzzah you have nailed this one old son. At $17 bucks a pop there are going to be many out there who will be amused with the label but shocked at the asking price. So what, that leaves more for those of us who love this. After all we can’t blame the brewer when our crappy federal excise laws discriminate against beer in favour of the fermented grape. I do sincerely hope this does get some more exposure and Murray can then perhaps expand production and as a result use economies of scale blah blah. I aim to drop a fifty on the weekend to get the equivalent of what is an impressive six pack. Now if I was going to say something corny in the end, which has nothing to do with the flavour constituents of the beer of course, I would suggest that you all say wallaby damned, I think I will hop to it and pouch a couple of these bewdies quicker than we can all say tsk tsk tsk to Joey for his Eccy thumping. But I won’t.