Dead Good Beers Reviews

WingmanWillis	4 Dead Good IPA Thursday, March 6, 2014
kiwianer	2.4 Dead Good Pilsner The head is medium, the body is blond. It smells mild, bit malty. The taste is malty, sweet, bit bitter, bit hoppy. Boring. Sunday, November 17, 2013
Brodies_Best	3 Dead Good Golden Ale Pours light brown with white head that fadws very slowly. Aroma of caramel, plums, Christmas cake and raw malt and hops. Slightly bitter with sweet overtones like port. Aftertaste is slightly metallic with oatmeal. Friday, October 4, 2013
jula	4 Dead Good IPA Sunday, June 23, 2013
lisagirl	4.5 Dead Twisted and Good Black Forest Bitter this is a collaboration beer, bsaed on the name assumingly dead good and twisted hop. don’t really know where to add it...whatever the case, this was absolutely phenomenal. immediately on the nose it was very woody and smoked which rather surprised me, and it stayed in the flavour with wood, smoked cheese and a truly delightful array of wild berries. can’t lay too much praise on this, amazing. Thursday, June 20, 2013
Flashbee	3 Dead Good IPA Saturday, October 20, 2012
Pdubyah	2 Dead Good Golden Ale I got no aroma at all, I got under carbonated headless, almost flat beer. The taste isn’t unpleasant, there is something you’re reaching for, and it might be the elder flowers that’s part of the brew. I’m not loving it. Friday, September 21, 2012
Cantabrian	3.2 Dead Good IPA Nice IPA. Not too bitter. Not too floral. Medium fruity nose, still faint, but I get the dessert ice wine, somewhere behind the late autumn fruits and moist grass. Pours dark copper. I like the opacity, but there’s perhaps too much of a verdigris tone to the colour. Interesting, well-balanced flavour, with hops bitterness coming through discreetly behind the sweet, mellow maltiness. Palate is well-behaved, respecting again a courteous balance between sweet and bitter. Quite a pleasant ale. Thursday, September 13, 2012
ciaranc	3 Dead Good IPA Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Jimthechap	3.8 Dead Good IPA Deep amber in colour with a sheen of whitish head on top of the beer. Excellent grapefruit, lemon and spruce notes in the aroma despite it being taken straight out of the fridge. Undertones of classic English malts. This has been heavily hopped with aroma hops and Iove the Rakau aromas. More American in influence with regard to the hopping. Upon tasting it is cool, brassy and then there’s lovely caramelised stonefruit coupled with spruce cones and shoots. The fruit makes itself dominant as it sits on the tongue along with gentle, but insistent bitterness. Would I call this a traditional British IPA? Not even if you threatened to taser me. This has Pacific North-West USA written all over it. Did I like it? I though this was tasty, well-made and I’m up for seconds. So there. Thursday, May 17, 2012
Jimthechap	3.5 Dead Good Pilsner Deepish golden colour in the beer, which for me doesn’t discount it from a likeness to genuine pilseners. The head appeared for a moment and decided it had better things to do than exist and then vanished. I stuck my (considerable) nose into the beer and took a good snort. What I found was a malt driven aroma of German pilsener malt and a dash of grassy Saaz. While I found the malt authentic, likeable and liable to invade Poland, the hop character was a let down because I wanted more but didn’t get it. On balance though, it smelt good. Again malt driven upon tasting and then a lustrous malt coupled with bitterness. Whoever brewed this beer knows what they were doing and has tasted widely. I believe this to be one of the most authentic and tasty Pilseners brewed in New Zealand today. Thursday, May 17, 2012
Jimthechap	3.6 Dead Good Golden Ale This beer does what it says on the label. It is golden in colour with a head that asks whether it exists and doesn’t find itself coming to a conclusion. The aroma is something I haven’t really encountered in many New Zealand ales, it has a certain English ale aroma character to it that I positively love. It’s a combination of maltiness and sultana-like fruity aroma and if I brew a beer for commercial release, I want it to smell like this. This is reflected in the flavour of golden syrup, English ale, tinned apricots, currants and wheat flakes. The elderflower comes through once it has sat on the palate for a few moments and is rewarding and tasty. The tag Golden Ale for many brews seems to be a place that they can file beers that don’t taste of terribly much. This beer is sessionable, tasty and I would prefer it in a pint served on handpull. I’d go so far as to call it dead good. Well done the brewer. Thursday, May 17, 2012
skortila	3.7 Dead Good IPA On tap @ The Free House, Nelson. The aroma has citric fresh hops. Clear, copper coloured beer with a thin, off-white head. The taste is bitter, has oranges, grapefruits, is slightly resiny and veggie. Light-medium bodied. Very nice one. Saturday, March 24, 2012
skortila	3 Dead Good Pilsner On tap @ The Free House, Nelson. The aroma has some flowery hops. Clear, golden coloured beer with an off-white head. The taste is light malty, crisp, bit flowery and light-moderate bitter for a pilsener. Good one. Saturday, March 24, 2012