Thin head back to some frothy cover,good carbonation in an an apricot coloured beer,has a good look.Aroma malty,fruit(a good mix)caramel.Flavour tangy,nice bitterness(citric)citric peel,grapefruit,peach,strong flavours,easy going down,this brewery are working wonders.Bitter holds it,s own with other good IPA,s.Finish bitter dry full flavours of hops.

330ml bottle enjoyed on its own. Poured deep copper with cream head. Aromas of excessive hops, sweet acids and some sweet malts that blend well. Flavour is much the same, dominated by hops, also fruits. Medium mouthfeel with some bitterness, turning into all bitterness as it heads south over the tongue. Alcohol content hidden well in this big beer, very well balanced, will be buying again!

Can Murrays do no wrong at the moment? This is a great double IPA. Pour is amber, almost copper with beige head. Aroma is fantastic resinous hops with fruit and malt coming through. Flavour is also fantastic, big bold powerful, but not acrid. Front palate is a nice blend of sweet caramel malt and secondary stonefruit flavours. Finish is superb, it is a very long bitter finish of some mouth coating hop resin, quite bitter, but not as over the top as The Beast. Brilliant!!

330ml bottle, 08 vintage. When I heard it was out in stubbies I couldn’t help myself but get a case. Quite a viscous looking copper body with a small dense off-white head, leaving thick lace on the way down. Aroma is just huge, resinous hops! Amazing fruity complexities; lychee, rockmelon, passionfruit, unripe nectarine, intense grapefruit, some pine woodiness and earthy leafiness in there and a hint of caramel malt. Big palate to go along with the nose. Lengthy, sticky feel verging on resiny, low-to-moderate carb, bit gritty bitterness manifests itself early on and won’t let go for a LONG time. A subtly sweet caramel malt backbone stands in little way to a brutal barrage of robust hop character; hard to focus at first, but unripe stonefruit mixed with intense citrus seems to cover the majority of what I get here. But theres more to it, if you look deep, and arn’t afraid of hops...notes of wood, pine needle, tropical fruits that could possibly pass as pineapple and mango. Delicious, if you haven’t got that impression yet. Finish is immasculatingly bitter and drying, and just keeps going and going, and I wonder where the alcohol bite is? This certainly isn’t a beer for NON-beer drinkers, infact they made have some sort of stroke...but for hopheads, this is bliss. Certainly tops the list of hop-driven beers downunder...nothing compares...yet.

2008 Vintage in 330ml bottle: I’d been hanging for this release for some time, following last years effort. Poured deep golden amber with a substantial off white to tan coloured head. Aromas are absolutely dominated by resiny hops, i could smell this all day! Also shows some spiced caramel. Palate is much of the same, seems to lack the sweet malt stonefruit characters (not necessarily a bad thing) common in other similar aussie offerings, which tells me that this could benefit from cellaring. Finish is again dominated by spicy resin hops with long lingering bitterness. Not quite what i expected but excellent nonetheless. Seems to show greater balance than other examples. Might put a few away and re-visit in 9-12 months.