Saltram of Barossa Pepperjack Hand Crafted Ale

Brewed by Matilda Bay Brewing Co. (CUB)
Style: Fruit Beer
Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Bottle. I remember first trying this beer a year or so ago and not thinking much of it. I hadn’t taken notes at the time so I picked up a bottle recently for a fair judging. And am I glad I did. This one poured reddish amber with a medium beige head. A real nice aroma of ripe fruit, caramel and biscuit. The flavours mirror the aroma. The Shiraz characteristics are by no means dominating, but I think that’s actually a good thing and the reason why this beer works. It’s well balanced, fruity and has good malt backbone to match. A delicious beer.

Interesting. Pours a coppery colour with little head. The aroma is of late season cherries, sweet and slightly sour. The taste is floral, with cherry and plum notes and a slight shiraz pepperiness an dry character. A little thin in the mouth to really appreciate the full flavour I think. It’s certainly a unique and very drinkable beer, and with a bit of improvement it could be excellent.

Had this one during my holiday in Australia april/may 2009. 2008 vintage edition. Red, amber, copper colored brew. Aroma of ripe fruit, floral hops. Longlasting head. Tick texture. Floral hoppy, aftertaste of pepper and wine. Nice combination, but a bit strange.

This is a lot more boring than I thought it was going to be. Amber-rose’ colour, almost no head. Smells like sour malt. Slight shiraz dryness, almost salty. One is enough for me.

Bottled, thx to NoiZe. Clear redbrown color, short head. Aroma of caramel malt, some grapes. Sourish taste, quite dry, skin of dark plums, some cherry pits. Quite dry palate. Strange.

Bottled. Tnx to Noize. Aroma has caramel malts and lots of grapes/wine. Clear, amber coloured beer with a lasting, off-white head. My first impression was that this beer was highly carbonated, but that’s not the case. It justs tastes carbonated. The carbonation is in fact some sort of fruity sourness. Quite dry and a bit too thin. This beer has potential.

Bottle, purchased at the International Beer Shop in Perth. Wow, sitting down to rate this beer, I am surprised to find that it is supposed to be a fruit beer. Perhaps more surprising, even though I got no fruit character in my bottle whatsoever, I still liked it a lot! It poured a rich deep amber with a cream-coloured head. Enticing toast and toffee aroma, some floral hops. Medium mouthfeel, medium sweetness, with toasty, nutty, and floral hop flavours. Clearly this bottle is not representative of what this beer is supposed to be, but I thought it was very good nonetheless!

This got better as it warmed, which is lucky, cos at first I recoiled in horror. A very strange tasting beer. Medium to full body, with nothing really dominating. Good for a change of pace

Highly carbonated, orange-amber colour with a medium sized pink head which actually increases as the beer is left idle. Sweet and raisin like fruity and strong vinuous aroma (duh). A tiny bit of sweetness at the start but then tasted quite sour in my mouth, very watery. Not my kind of thing at all, sorry.

Bottle. Clear orange-amber with a thick foamy head. Tropical fruits on the nose, with a hint of peppery shiraz on the swirl. A full and juicy malt palate, becoming a bit minerally in the swallow. The shiraz comes through more in the finish again.