Two Birds Sunset Ale

Two Birds Brewing
Brewed at Southern Bay Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Melbourne, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Had on tap at the Union Hotel in Newtown. A decent beer. Nothing special, but still nice.

A medium paced beer. Pleasant fruit hop aroma, touch of grapefruit in the flavour with a mid malt background. Not much bitterness. Pleasant but not exciting.

UPDATED: NOV 14, 2012 Really nice subtle pleasant amber ale. Puffy white head on immediate poor that soon disappears but laces the glasses nicely. Aroma of honey and molasses almost like the smell of a kitchen after home brewing. Flavours of slight fruity grapefruit I think with a hint of bitterness. Nice beer! One of the better amber ales I’ve had in a long time.

Poured a translucent dark amber colour with a two-finger off white foamy head that collapsed fairly quickly. Laced OK. Moderate carbonation. Aroma dominated by fresh hops. Taste of a pleasant hops bitterness from start to finish. Medium body. Moderately smooth finish dominated by a refreshing hops bitterness.

Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pours a clear reddish amber with a nice lasting white head. Nose packs a punch with passionfruit, grapefruit, caramel and little bit of biscuit. Taste combines all the above subtly with a dry finish and mild grapefruit/tropical notes. Very light bodied and the hop presence is rather nice. Subtle bitter finish leaving the palate fresh. Good session beer!!

On tap at Mrs Parma’s. Quite malty, not bad. Aromas of cola and caramel, with nutty notes. Taste is sweet, with light bitterness, and average length. Palate is oily, and medium bodied. Amber, with a frothy head.

There are aromas of toffee with grapefruit and passionfruit, giving this amber ale a lovely Summer lightness. The body is thinner than i expected, but the grapefruit is refreshing and there’s a little toffee on the sides of the tongue.

A-- Poured an interesting looking ruby brown color. Quite clear and nice looking ruby tones to this. Half finger of off white head that quickly went to film and a ringed collar. Better looking head on swirling but goes back to the norm quickly. S-- Big fruit nose. Passion fruit, pineapple, citrus, etc. Not a bad nose really. Pretty resinous and a decent carmel backbone to this. T-- Thin, watery, and soapy. Lost the hop character and mostly Carmel, bread, and artificial grape or fruit juice. Meh. M-- Medium carbonation and light medium feel. Mostly bread and carmel in the mouth with a bit of fruit juice mixed in to give it flavor. Good citrus finish though. Mid palate is just plain not interesting. O-- Good aromatics but needs more of a hop presence in the mid body. More like Carmel with fruit juice. Hard to want to find another of this.

Draught pint at Hart’s pub, The rocks, Sydney. Pours deep red almost Tinto de verano with a medium sized head that quickly minimalizies. Hop notes dominate with strong citrus and tropical characters, some caramel hints also come through later. The flavour is very well balanced with initial bombardment of hop rounded out with some roasty malt, the body is still a little thin but acceptable, This one improves as it warms with some pleasant esters coming though. It finishes long and this is easily a session beer.

Very pleasant on the nose, with fruity hops and after a while caramel malts. Very sessionable with very plenty of light tastes, including caramel, even some biscuit, smidgen of grapfruit and lift bitterness. This is a lot better than the golden ale.