Geelong Brewing Reviews

kbrower	1.7 Schonbrauhaus This beer was nothing special. Thought I was getting a German beer on the cheap before I got home. Never have had such a problem with overflowing bottles on opening. Didn’t get better even after 3 of these. I would have rather had a VB. Wednesday, May 16, 2007
messymatt	1.4 Geelong Bitter Looks a bit like beer, smells a bit like beer, is even packaged like beer, is it beer? I’m not sure. Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Sully	2.4 Schonbrauhaus I was in Purvis cellars ogling all the beers I was yet to try. This place is seriously good. The amiable chap pointed me in the direction of this and given the price I thought I would give it a go. It looks and smells like a lager, little hop presence but a reasonable biscuity nose with overtones of orange. This citrus note comes across in the taste with a hint of dried fruit. Is this brewed correctly or are these esters that shouldn’t be here? Anyway, another rate and a reasonable beer but not memorable by any stretch of the imagination. Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Lunkie	2.1 Schonbrauhaus Smokey hop malt aroma. Clear amber colour. Sweet flavour with dried fruit and christmas cake. Fizzy palate. Sunday, May 21, 2006
Lunkie	2.1 Geelong Premium Sweet bitter hop arma with some nuts on the side? Clear yellow colour with poor head and no lacing. Bitter hop malt flavour. smooth palate. Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Lunkie	2.5 Geelong Sparkling Ale Rich smokey hop seet floral arma. Clear yellow colour with poor head and lacing. Sweet malt flavour with smoky hops. Fizzy palate. Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Lunkie	1.6 Geelong Draught Bitter aroma with hops and malt. Clear yellow colour with no head and poor lacing. Malt bitter hop flavour. Fizzy palate. Tuesday, January 17, 2006
vanvenlo	1.8 Geelong Draught 23 Sep 05 - Light sweet and hoppy aroma. Clear yellow gold, awful head and lacing. Light fruit and hop flavour. Light tangy, some bitterness and some lingering sweet hops. Friday, January 6, 2006
vanvenlo	1.4 Geelong Sparkling Ale 21 Sep 05 - Vegetable and sweet aroma. Clear yellow golden colour, Ok head and low suds lacing. Sweet and artficial flavours. Awful bitter sweet finish. This is different but its a bit weird for me. Friday, January 6, 2006
vanvenlo	1.6 Geelong Premium 21 Sep 05 - Simple slight sweet, light apple fruit and slightly spiritous aroma. Clear yellow golden colour, with poor head and lacing. Low malt, low hop flavour. Light tangy bitter finish and some lingering sweet hops. This beer is a bit ordinary. Friday, January 6, 2006
Linc	1.6 Geelong Draught I believe this beer is also sold under the name of Mercat draught at the mercat hotel near the Victoria markets. It’s not terrible on tap, sweet and predictable, not dissimilar to Carlton Draught. Probably made with a lot of sugar. Devoid of any defining character. Saturday, August 20, 2005
voota	2.8 Geelong Sparkling Ale Pours a clear golden colour, small dissipating head. Aroma is yeasty and fruity. Tastes quite a lot like coopers sparkling, perhaps a little sweeter and skunkier. It’s also got a fairly thin mouthful for a beer of decent abv, not very bitter either. Finish is clean and crisp(ish). Not too bad. Wednesday, July 20, 2005
omhper	3.4 Geelong Sparkling Ale Bottled. Hazy golden. Fruity with restrained sweetness. Bready and freshly malty with a nice combination of soft buttery malt and come aromatic crystal malt. Fairly low bitterness. Fairly similar in malt character to Coopers. An unassuming, yet interesting and unusual beer. I like it! Monday, June 13, 2005
ItsBigK	3.7 Schonbrauhaus A true bargain beer. A smooth, well rounded, easy drinking flavour, with a hint of honey and frtuityness to add interest. You wont be fooled into thinking it’s a true German beer, but it has enough of that essence to make its consumption a pleasure. I’m not aware of a better "drinking" beer for the price. Monday, June 6, 2005
mullet	1.4 Geelong Premium Light Looks OK - has some head retention. Big acetaldehyde aroma with diacetyl and toffee behind it. Tastes watery but if anything it’s like sparkling apple juice with some toffee and rusty bitterness. Boring. Never seen it in a can as in the photo here either. Friday, March 4, 2005
ALLOVATE	2.4 Geelong Our Original Pale Ale Whilst working in Adelaide, myself and workmates ventured for a Friday bevvie and ordered a Pale. Grudges all round, we complained that the taps were infected as it was initially clear "this isn’t Cooper’s". Wasn’t that bad though! Poured a slightly hazy pale straw with a thin soapy white head. Little aroma. Mouth feel was decent with low carbonation and good body. Sweet castor sugar and bready yeast, quite gluggy and arguably lacking in definition with only a light hint of sour leafy hops. Finish is a little short and forgettable. Know nothing of the brewery and haven’t seen this beer advertised anywhere else in Adelaide. Still, it actually wasn’t that disagreeable a drop. Saturday, December 4, 2004
Stew41	1.9 Geelong Sparkling Ale Very clear tan - looks good. Lots of lifted stewed fruits on the nose, kinda skunky, NQR. Feels ok in the mouth but more skunky notes pop up. I hope this was a bad bottle. Thursday, November 18, 2004
Stew41	1.8 Geelong Bitter Crystal clear classic larger look - reminds me of a Crownie. Sweet nose, a little malt. Nothing much happening in the mouth, more sweetness but I’m not sure what it is. A little soapy. Not bitterness. Not a great beer. Sunday, November 14, 2004
Stew41	2.4 Geelong Our Original Pale Ale Actually I didn’t think this was was too bad. Looks the goods with pale yellow gold colour, slightly cloudy. Sweetish nose with a waft of malt. Thick palate, again driven by sweetness although not necessarily malty. Tails a little at the finish and doesn’t really offer any hoppiness. Probably not for the purists but I can see some ’crowd pleaser’ appeal. Saturday, November 13, 2004
vanvenlo	2.4 Schonbrauhaus 9 May 2004 - Slight fruit malt aroma. Clear yelllow gold colour and slight lacing. Simplistic malt sweet and hopping flavour, it has a funny artificial aftertaste with a slightly flat body. Sunday, August 29, 2004
mullet	1.4 Geelong Bitter Ugh. All this brewery’s beers taste the same. They’re really quite bad but not offensive enough to rate really poorly in my book. This one has rust and bananas and not much else - OK maybe lemon detergent. Good head retention. Crap beer. Sunday, June 13, 2004
mullet	2 Geelong Premium I really don’t know what to make of this. I’m actually getting some enjoyment from this beer but I can’t believe it’s in the manner that the brewery intended it. Aroma is nuts, cider and metal, as with most of this brewery’s beers but perhaps less objectionable with the cideriness quite appley (Granny Smith). The beer tastes thin, sour, very appley and astringent. It really in no way resembles a good pale lager. I’d kind of describe it as cross between my insipid (but OK) home-brewed cider and a wussy lambic (maybe Belle-Vue Gueuze). Looks pretty good. High carb. Tastes like granny smiths. Saturday, June 12, 2004
mullet	1.4 Geelong Draught Well... yeah it actually had pretty decent head retention and most of the objectionable aromas went away pretty quickly. Other than that it’s thin, metallic, astringent and kind of headache-inducing. And farmboy I can go you one better - I’m from Geelong :) Friday, May 28, 2004
mullet	2.4 Schonbrauhaus Initially smells like Ovaltine, then heaps like pears but both of these dissipate and it smells really malty - honey, bread, golden syrup, diacetyl - so much so that it seems like some kind of artificial "German malt" aroma. Really interesting aroma but I’m not entirely sure about it. Flavour is pretty toffee-malty with no real bitterness but it’s not oversweet. Malt is kind of cardboardy. Really interesting stuff but a bit all over the shop, frankly. Friday, May 28, 2004
Choos	2.9 Schonbrauhaus Hints of fruity maybe even apple and honey notes in the aroma with some almost Old Speckled Hen volatiles. Smallish head that held and a bright copper gold colouring, pasturised clear. Sweet malty almost apple flavours. Weird that this is a Pilsener but even if others didn’t enjoy this I liked it. Wednesday, May 19, 2004
mullet	0.6 Geelong Our Original Pale Ale Ewww.... I had this once before and thought it was pretty decent (and a dead ringer for Coopers Pale) but this time it was terrible. Really, REALLY yeasty aroma with some metallic notes. Tastes sweet and fruity like fruit cup cordial (or Fruity Lexia cask wine). To be avoided. Monday, November 24, 2003
mullet	2.9 Geelong Sparkling Ale Nice gold colour, very clear with a small but tight head. Aroma of caramel malt, over-ripe fruit, alcohol/nail polish and rust. Flavour is quite clean, slightly fruity with quite a good balance between light malt and light bitterness. Not as highly carbonated as expected which was a bonus. Easily one of this brewery's better beers, and great considering the price, but still pretty average. Saturday, October 18, 2003
mutant	2.3 Geelong Sparkling Ale Golden bronze colour slightly hoppy aroma. Sweetish start to the flavour with maybe a bit of fruitiness. Slightly bready at the finish which does not have much bitterness. More like an amped up lager and lacks real quality. Interestingly, this has the same abv as Coopers Sparkling Ale. Tuesday, October 14, 2003
farmboy	0.8 Geelong Premium Light Gets marks for being better than the Bitter and the Draught and gets another mark for being better than Geelong Premium. Otherwise it's not that special. If I'm driving or taking it easy I'd have a Boags Premium Light anyday. Tuesday, August 26, 2003
farmboy	0.7 Geelong Premium Better than the Draught and the Bitter put together but still a crappy taste for the price. Tuesday, August 26, 2003
farmboy	0.5 Geelong Bitter Agree with the below post. This is a disappointing beer. Actually it's not a beer at all. Tuesday, August 26, 2003
farmboy	0.5 Geelong Draught Coming from Barwon Heads, 20km from Geelong, I am ashamed to admit that this is as close to swill as you could possible get without drinking a bottle with the letters 'VB' on it. Tuesday, August 26, 2003
duff	0.6 Schonbrauhaus Decidedly un-Bavarian. Very crappy Aussie stuff, and even though its in accordance with Reihensgebot, its still manages to taste like they threw a crapload of chemicals and additives into it. Dirty water-esque. Sunday, June 22, 2003
duff	0.8 Geelong Premium Pretty screwed up. Better than the pale ale, i tasted more hop in this (but it ain't any where close to being hoppy). Classic Aussie chemical finish, (although, it does say that theres no preservatives). Pretty shite. Premium my butt!!! Sunday, June 22, 2003
duff	0.6 Geelong Our Original Pale Ale Dim, pale peachy browm colour. The aroma is like sweet cordial, really short industrial finish. Traditional crap Aussie chemical additive finish, really bad, and unbelievably thin. Hard to believe its an ale. Sunday, June 22, 2003
mutant	2.6 Schonbrauhaus Sweet, fruity & strong aroma. Very light yellow but a decent head. Has a somewhat lemony taste that is otherwise undistinguished. Also a short finish. Sunday, June 8, 2003
mutant	1.6 Geelong Draught Slightly bitter aroma and moderately bitter flavour. Very thin and watery. A real disapointment. Wednesday, April 30, 2003
mutant	0.9 Geelong Premium Light Smells amost skunked despite brown bottle. Watery & tasteless, duh it's a light. A waste of water. Wednesday, April 9, 2003
mutant	2.8 Geelong Our Original Pale Ale Light honey colourand Light fruity aroma, bitter hoppy flavour with some sourness. Quite refreshing and IMHO the best of this mediocre brewery's offerings to date. But I stand to be corrected. Thursday, March 20, 2003
mutant	1.8 Geelong Premium Slight malt aroma and bitterness. Watery with an unpleasant aftertaste. Not worthwhile. Sunday, March 16, 2003
johninmelb	0.6 Schonbrauhaus Too pale & watery with a non-existant head. The flavour is flat and lifeless with an unpleasant cloying quality. The patronising label note gives an indication that this brewer is not to be taken seriously, and this over-aspiring beer is just another awful strike for Geelong Brewery. Wednesday, February 5, 2003
johninmelb	1.4 Geelong Premium Well, this supposed ’premium’ stuff is slightly less bad than the confusingly named "Geelong Premium Lager", but that’s not saying much. This seems to have aspirations toward being like CUB’s Crown Lager, with added unpleasant floral aromas, flavours and aftertastes. Tuesday, February 4, 2003
johninmelb	1.2 Geelong Draught The lesser of the three evils - the other two being Geelong Bitter and Geelong Lager. This one still has the same insipid quality with unpleasant alcohol flavours coming through. The head is weak, the palate nasty and the whole experience definately not worth having. Tuesday, February 4, 2003
johninmelb	0.8 Geelong Premium Lager This is the same godawful stuff that they sell as Geelong Bitter I'm sure. Either that or my tastebuds just have one receptor for "revolting cat piss". Slightly more evil aroma, and the head doesn't last, hence the dropped points on it's bitter stablemate. I'm now scared to try the draught that I also foolishly bought today. Monday, February 3, 2003
johninmelb	1 Geelong Bitter Awful, awful beer from Geelong south of Melbourne. It looks like a standard lager, perhaps a bit yellowey. There is definate acetate and other unpleasant things in the smell. The taste is a bit like Budweiser mixed with dishwater. Actually make that washing machine water - there's a hint of old smelly socks in there somewhere. Genuinely bad. Monday, February 3, 2003
Catadobe	0.5 Geelong White Lightning Dingo Bitter If you don''t guzzel this beer it taste alot like vomit. Just swig it and enjoy the alcoholic properties. Friday, December 20, 2002
mutant	2 Geelong White Lightning Dingo Bitter Standard amber body and small head. Sweet apple juice aroma which thankfully doesn't carry over to the flavour. There's very little flavour at all, but it was cheap. Sunday, April 21, 2002