Southern Bay Draught

Brewed by Southern Bay Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Moolap, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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The epitome of 80’s draught beer as it sits in the glass. Amber, sparkling and fuelled by a persistent flurry of carbonation. Soapy, adhesive foam atop lasts and leaves a film of white frost upon the glass. Aroma is dominated by a note of leavened white-bread dough, raw and floury with only a gest of metallic hops to break it up - not good. Dowdy and floury on the palate too with so much metal in the finish I’d barely be mistaken for thinking I was sucking on the fender of an HQ Holden. Light bodied but expectedly soapy in feel and slick as it slips past the tonsils. Each swallow had me shudder. I couldn’t finish this one. So close to those macro’s of the 80’s I near keeled over with flash-back dread, Not for me!! (33cL, BB 13/01/14, Cellarbrations Carlisle)

Pours gold with a small fading head. Nose shows cardboard-like malt, vegetal notes and very faint caramel. Sweet flavours, some clean malt at first before cardboard stale notes and grainy malt show through. Body feels watery, too much carbonation.