Doctors Orders Brewing Reviews

Cheeseboard	3.4 Doctors Orders Plasma 330ml bottle sampled April 2016. Pours hazy gold with a cream head. Aroma: citrus, peach, herbal. Taste: light to moderate sweet, lemon, grapefruit, pine. Medium body, semi dry finish Sunday, May 3, 2020
Skarecrow	3.5 Doctors Orders Tonic 375ml can Hazy yellow with OK head. Floral, grassy, yeasty, herbal aroma. Grassy herbal sweetness then a dry-ish finish. Extra smooth when a slug of gin is added. Friday, August 10, 2018
Niksko	3.9 Doctors Orders Tonic Pours a crystal clear golden color, fast fading white head. Nose is lovely, I get lots if orange peel, a hint of juniper and the gorgeous lemon myrtle. Flavor is similar, a little wheaty, lots of botanicals, dry, spritzy carbonation, lovely. Adding a dose of gin is really interesting, and amplifies the flavors even more. Lovely, and a pretty crazy but tasty concept. Friday, June 15, 2018
explosivedog	3.6 Doctors Orders Nucleus 375ml can. Pours gold. Pepper, banana, peach, little clove, bit of a flapjacky finish. Medium body. Good. Friday, April 20, 2018
explosivedog	3.8 Doctors Orders Fleshwound Steinbier 500ml bottle. Pours red brown. Caramel, biscuit, grapefruit, orange, loads of caramel. Good body. Nice. Saturday, April 14, 2018
tp35282	3.6 Doctors Orders Tonic Can 18/3/18. Pours a pale straw with thin white head. Aromas of orange pith, coriander, wheat, pepper and fruity sweetness. Fruit juice to begin, wheat to finish, with gin attributes through the middle (coriander, pepper, bitter juniper). Good carbonation. These notes relate to beer being drunk straight. For the second half I add gin and ice to the the glass. I like gin and loved it in the beer. The ‘tonic’ took a subtle backseat and showed the gin off. Monday, March 26, 2018
KeefOz	3.2 Doctors Orders Malpractice Poured a translucent dark red-brown with a billowing tan coloured frothy head that diminished to a 1cm cap that remained throughout. Laced well. Carbonation low, slow and coarse. Aroma of coffee, sweet syrup and roasted malts; no real hops presence. Taste of slight citrus at the front followed by quite bitter coffee and roasted notes; no real hops bitterness. Medium body. Smooth and very dry with very bitter coffee on a lingering finish. Monday, March 5, 2018
macca147	3.1 Doctors Orders Cephalopod On tap at Union Hotel, Newtown (from notes - 2013). Pours a murky aqua green with a thin head. Kind of looks like toxic waste or paint mixed with turpentine. Aroma: citrus, wheat, grapefruit, yeast, funky notes. Taste: citrus, grapefruit, yeast, grass, mild herbal flavours. Medium to full bodied. Moderate carbonation. Mild tartness that lingers on the palate. Not pleasant to look at, but was quite a decent beer. Sunday, February 11, 2018
nhardes	1.8 Doctors Orders Tonic Very pale orange appearance with quickly disappearing head. Unusual herbaceous aroma. Sprit/shandy like flavour. Doughy bread background. Tangy citrus and lemon zest aftertaste. Addition of gin doesn’t improve either drink! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Friday, February 2, 2018
nhardes	3.2 Doctors Orders Nucleus Bright clear orange appearance with generous white head. Orange citrus and wheat aroma. Full mouth feel, wheat dominant flavour. Vanilla sweetness and spice. Developing bitterness. Medium length finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Friday, February 2, 2018
bitterlady	3.7 Doctors Orders Tonic Strawberry stalk lingers in an effervescent light brew with a touch of bergamot. In fact, this has the essence of gin hiding inside its bubbles. Honest and pleasing, I could easily drink a couple on a warm summers day, then rest in fields sucking on the tips of long grass waiting for the dappled afternoon light to fade and another sip, for me, just divine. Saturday, December 23, 2017
ALLOVATE	3 Doctors Orders Nucleus Day 17 of my advent calendar 2017. Into a tulip, chilled. Must say it looks the business. Honey orange and radiant. Misted by minute proteins in suspension. Alive with only a single, fine conditioned stream of carbonation lifting up a rocky and fluffy white cloud to a good inch and a half. Strong Belgian yeast bite against stewed stone fruit notes on the nose. Aroma is quite sweet, sticky and robust more like something of higher strength aided by spicy phenols and sweet sherry. As expected it is quite fruity and sweet with very pronounced stewed plum and apricot which dominates over all else. Quite tangy, tart and sharp in the back with a raspy bitterness moving into a smoky, phenolic finish. Quite rounded with a lot of residual sugars. I reckon they could have got a point or two more in ferment had they left it alone a few days longer. As it warms it becomes cloying. A note of berry bubblegum builds. Not altogether a tight unit. And I was expecting something completely different as to this. Still, it punches above its meagre 5.5% ABV. My first Doctor's Orders so I look forward to trying more!!! (37,5cL can, Pkgd 30/08/17, Copper & Oak, Tuart Hill) Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Muggus69	3.4 Doctors Orders Nucleus 375mL can from Carwyn Cellars. P/D 30/08/17 Slightly hazy ornage body, dense white head. Hop forward - orange, grapefruit, woody spice, tempered with faint yeasty phenolics & bready, cereal malts. Medium-full body, bit of slick chewiness from the oats, reasonable carbonation. Hoppy once again, fairly bitter, spicy, pine, cereal notes, dry finish. Not a bad APA - other bits & pieces could be overlooked. Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Patersoi	3.9 Doctors Orders Fleshwound Steinbier Pours copper brown with honeycomb head. Smells a bit home brew. Lovely soft mouth feel presents a toffee flavour with hints of Christmas pudding and dates. Long finish with a hint of fruit accompanying the vanilla and caramel. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Thursday, November 30, 2017
mkel07	4.1 Doctors Orders Nucleus Can from Beer Cartel on 27 September 2017. Another great drop from the good doctor. Sunshine golden colour with a small white head and a full bodied creamy texture in the mouth. The flavour stays long after the beer has gone. Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Dervock	3.5 Doctors Orders Nucleus Can - pours gold with a white head. Aroma is orange, cloves and more wheaty than oat nalt. Taste is spice up front with a drying citrus finish. Saturday, November 18, 2017
hawthorne00	3.3 Doctors Orders Nucleus Can. Clear orange with a dense white head that laces well. Aroma of light dough, oranges, vanilla, cloves. Smells very standard Belgian Blonde, but it turns out to taste rather less sweet and first and a fair bit more bitter at the end. Has a lot more presence than 5.5% would suggests. Tuesday, October 31, 2017
KeefOz	3.3 Doctors Orders Nucleus Poured a crystal clear golden amber with a one- to two-finger bright white dense foam head that retained very well but laced poorly. Carbonation moderate to high, average and fine to coarse. Aroma of spicy yeast, tropical fruits (pineapple) and hints of citrus. Taste is bitter hops with yeast spiciness. Light body. Smooth with a bit of a spicy tartness on a moderately long finish. Different, a bit weird. Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Muggus69	3.6 Doctors Orders Malpractice 330mL can from Beer Love. PKD 28/04/17 Rather good looking - near-black brown, holds a dense tan head throughout. 5 Enjoyable aroma - browned toast, burnt nuts, coffee grinds, dark toffee with an appreciable measure of piney, citrus hop in the mix. 7 Full bodied, dries out a bit without being overly astrigency, lowish carbonation. 3 Flavours work well - cococa, burnt toffee sweetness, black coffee, plenty of nutty & toasty character lingering with hop notes of ripe stonefruit, cooked citrus & woody sap. Fairly bitter to finish, hops keep hanging on. 7 Yeah this is good - rather drinkable above everything! 14 3.6 Thursday, September 14, 2017
ShaneJ	3.4 Doctors Orders Electrolyte Serum Can from Beer Cartel (March 2017). Hazy golden, large persistent white head, doughy/bready wheat, subtle rhubarb, light tartness, citrus peel and a light salty finish. Nice. Thursday, August 24, 2017
Andrus86	3.3 Doctors Orders Malpractice CAN. Cola black in colour with large fluffy head.. Bitter aroma, darkness & light hops.. Bitter dark body, a little coffee with hoppy bitter bite.. Sourced cape cellars Saturday, August 19, 2017
Lonick	3.1 Doctors Orders Iron Lung Bottle @Craigs (The Budget week tasting, rating backlog). Pours brown tan head. Nose is blackcurrant, some fruit tones but mainly blackcurrant. Taste is dry, bitter, toffee, slight burnt notes. Sunday, August 6, 2017
varanid99	4 Doctors Orders Malpractice Black pour with a thin tan head. Roasty, citrus, cocoa aromas. Taste is roast, coffee, ash, citrus, with good piney notes and a bitter finish. Like this one a lot Monday, July 17, 2017
StevieT	3.8 Doctors Orders Malpractice From a can. This is a very tasty beer that’s a little creamy with a nice fruity hop punch. Saturday, July 15, 2017
jase3812	3.4 Doctors Orders Electrolyte Serum I’ve never been a huge fan of Rhubarb but subtle flavours hidden within this wheat Gose makes it quite enjoyable. Quite bready with a little saltiness this one is good for after a long day working on the veggie patch in your hippy commune. Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Davros	3.5 Doctors Orders Electrolyte Serum Pours gold with a large head. Nose shows lemon skin, soft doughy wheat, elderflower and rhubarb. Flavours include a subtle acidity, a bit of salt, a bit of lemon and a hint of rhubarb. Delicate. Wednesday, June 21, 2017
hawthorne00	3.6 Doctors Orders Malpractice Can. Almost black with a beige head. 3+ Roasty aroma with tropical, citrus and some earthy notes. Lightish bodied. Really quite dry with roasty and slightly ashy notes underneath quite zesty and tropical bitterness. Clever, tasty. Thursday, June 8, 2017
iamthejoker	4 Doctors Orders Zephyr Friday, June 2, 2017
mkel07	4 Doctors Orders Malpractice 010617. Can from Greenslopes Cellars. Great beer for the first day of winter. Not quite a Stout and not quite an IPA but has the best of both. Pours black with a coffee coloured head. Dry finish with a good combination of hoppiness and maltiness. Another great beer from the good Doctor. Thursday, June 1, 2017
jmgreenuk	3.8 Doctors Orders Malpractice Tap at the Boilermaker House, Melbourne. Poured a clear dark brown with a frothy light tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, grassy hop. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a crisp smoky malt, caramel, grassy, fruit hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Stout or Black IPA? More of a Black IPA for me... but the brewer intent is a hoppy stout. Thursday, May 25, 2017
Sinker	4 Doctors Orders Saccharophobic Sunday, May 14, 2017
Malrider69	2.2 Doctors Orders Malpractice Pours a reddish to dark brown colour with a light tan coloured head. There is a slight aroma of roasted malt. The taste is of hops and very little of the roasted malt comes through. The beer is considerably bitter for a stout with the bitterness long lasting on the palate. Overall a disappointing ’stout’. It is not heavy enough and is more like a dark IPA. Friday, May 12, 2017
explosivedog	3.6 Doctors Orders Tonic 375ml can. Pours straw. Juniper, orange, spice, long herbal bitter finish. This is really very good, and (obviously) very unusual too. Adding a shot of gin, as per the can, is strongly recommended. Thursday, May 11, 2017
johndoughty	3.7 Doctors Orders Iron Lung Bottle. Black and pored slightly lively.Malty medium body but nothing really distinctive about it. Bit of an underachiever. Friday, May 5, 2017
TedE	3.1 Doctors Orders Electrolyte Serum On tap at Basement Brewhouse Bankstown. Woody, peppery, spicy, aniseed nose. Pale amber beer with thin film of suds on top. Flat mouthfeel, salty umami notes. Finish is increasing saltiness. Really nice, refreshing. Saturday, April 29, 2017
mkel07	3 Doctors Orders Electrolyte Serum 140417. I was expecting a little more than I got out of this beer and I was a little disappointed with it, even though it was an okay beer. I have come to expect big things from Doctor’s Orders Brewing and this beer was just a little underwhelming. I think it lacked a bit of tart bitterness and saltiness that I normally find in a Gose. Deep white head above a gold coloured beer that is reasonably clear . Dry finish without the sourness that I was expecting. I had this beer in a can purchased from Greenslopes Cellars. Friday, April 14, 2017
StevieT	3.3 Doctors Orders Electrolyte On tap at Newcastle Beer Festival. A very tasty drop with a fruity finish and refreshing medium sour finish. Monday, April 10, 2017
hawthorne00	3.4 Doctors Orders Serum As Electrolyte Serum. Can, 4% ABV. Cloudy straw-coloured with a creamy white head. Wheaty, briny, mildly funky and earthy covers the aroma - it’s clear enough there’s rhubarb in there if you know, but I don’t know whether I’d have picked it otherwise. Light bodied, slightly slippery. Tartish - just a funky wheaty twang really - but there’s a kefir like feel that makes it for me. gentle rhubarb, almost no bitterness, moderately salty finish. Refreshing. Friday, March 31, 2017
Banjo271	4 Doctors Orders / Sixpoint Operation Paralysis Friday, March 17, 2017
AshtonMcCobb	3.3 Doctors Orders Iron Lung Bottle courtesy of cgarvieuk dregs run. Appearance - dark brown to black. Close to opaque. Nose - molasses and sweet malts. Taste - light smoke and more sweet malts and molasses. Burnt bread on the finish. Palate - close to medium bodied with a dry middle and end. Overall - has some doppelbock characteristics. Saturday, March 11, 2017
nihtila	2.9 Doctors Orders Iron Lung Bottle at Craigs. Dark brown. Nose is dark malts, blackcurrants. Taste is similar, thin and not much taste, very fizzy. Friday, March 10, 2017
Stuu666	3.3 Doctors Orders Iron Lung Bottle at Craigs. Pours deep brown, nose is little smoky, roasted, toffee, taste is similar, little fruit, sweet. Friday, March 10, 2017
cgarvieuk	2.9 Doctors Orders Iron Lung bottle at home ... copper ... massive tan head ... soft sweet toffee malt nose ... dry fruit .. soft woddy toffee malt .. soft toffee .. ligth grain Friday, March 10, 2017
sm89walt	2.8 Doctors Orders Tonic Keg - Beer Deluxe, Sydney. Clear golden amber; fine and fading white head. Floral, citrus, mid-fruits and spice aromas. Light to medium body, some buttery characters on the palate, soft to medium carbonation and a gentle intensity, short finish Thursday, March 2, 2017
mkel07	3.1 Doctors Orders Tonic 190217. Can from Beer Cartel. Big white head sits above a amber beer. Light and refreshing in the mouth with a clean aftertaste. Mix of fruitiness and spiciness in the flavour. Friday, February 24, 2017
hawthorne00	2.9 Doctors Orders Tonic Can. Almost clean pale gold with a good inch of white head. Fine bead. Aroma really a tonic-like wit, with juniper, citrus peel and bark. Soft texture, medium carbonation. Sweet and plain apart from the spices, with no wheaty tang or tonic-like bite. The woody spices come through at the moderately bitter finish though. Pleasant enough, a bit of a let down after the aroma. Thursday, February 23, 2017
jase3812	4.3 Doctors Orders Tonic Crisp beer with hints of orange rind. This is designed to be drunk on its own or as a mixer with Gin. While I’m all out of gin, on it’s own is just as good. Sessionable and perfect for kicking back after a long hot day as the sun sets and you settle in. Thursday, February 23, 2017
TedE	2.8 Doctors Orders Tonic Australia Day Beer #6. 375ml can into shaker. Aroma of cardboard and dough BUT with whiffs of fruit hidden behind. Cloudy yellow with the odd bubble and no head. Spritzy and clean straight up. Finish is quinine bitter, yep it’s tonic water. Not bad but Pike’s Tonic Ale did the same thing better. Thursday, January 26, 2017
Dervock	3 Doctors Orders Tonic Can - pours yellow gold with a short lived head. Aroma is bready malt with some spice. Taste is mild malt and spice bit of citrus on the finish...tried it with some gin, but think I’ll stick to a normal tonic. Thursday, January 26, 2017
Davros	2.8 Doctors Orders Tonic Pours gold with a large head. Nose shows soft wheat, bready notes, floral notes and soft lemon rind. Flavours include soft doughy wheat and lemon rind. Very subtle, not much there. Tuesday, January 17, 2017