Bowral Brewing Company Reviews

MaltoseChecker9	3.8 Pigs Fly Pilsner Nice beer but way too expensive for a little bottle 330ml $80 a slab cannot drink this at this price. Quote " quality beer before profit" unquote Saturday, March 31, 2018
R4N5H	2.7 Pigs Fly Pilsner 33cl bottle at Kingsleys Australian Steakhouse, Sydney on 22-Feb-2017. Clear pale amber colour with a thin white head. Aroma of grain and sweet malt. Light body and medium carbonation. Taste of sweet maly, pine and cereal. Light bitter hop profile but sweet lagerish. Saturday, February 25, 2017
TedE	2.7 Pigs Fly Pilsner 330ml bottle into lager glass. Bought at Bowral hotel. Amber beer with a clingy fluffy white head. Lots of tiny bubbles. Smells of grain and malt. Good body, bitter at first then malt takes over. Lingering grain late on. Definitely leans towards a pils more than a lager. Not bad, certainly good in hot weather. Saturday, December 10, 2016
blackbock	2 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle. Poured a filtered copper hue. Nice sparkling carbonation, although poor head retention. Thought this beer had a bitter dry finish. Not great Saturday, December 26, 2015
Clarkro	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Saturday, October 3, 2015
TedE	2.5 Pigs Fly Pale Ale 330ml bottle into glass. Faint hop nose, a touch vegetal. Sparkling golden beer with frothy lasting head. A few bubbles. Spritzy mouthfeel, fairly straightforward taste. Aspirin bitter finish with a touch of lemon. Not one I’d repeat. Saturday, July 11, 2015
Jimthechap	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Appears coppery orange in colour with a minimal head, fine carbonation and a touch of haze. Aroma dwells on the malt profile, offering satisfying coppery biscuitiness and some orange peel coming from the malt. Prickly carbonation in the mouth before a surge of oranges and some spruce bitterness. It lacks a little in body, but I suppose would be a good session pint. Likeable enough. Sunday, May 3, 2015
StevieT	2.9 Pigs Fly Pale Ale From a bottle. Copper colour, minimal head, dry finish with a nice hop balance. Pretty good stuff. Thursday, April 9, 2015
rob65n	4 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Narrabian	1.6 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Taste it, tick it off your list and move on... nothing much to see here and no reason to ever want another. Sunday, October 26, 2014
RafeAU	2 Pigs Fly Pale Ale a pretty flavour less pale ale. little hop aroma or taste. There is no reason at all to seek out this beer. Saturday, August 23, 2014
Jmar33	1 Pigs Fly Pilsner Bottle. Hate to be brutal, but there’s bot much doing here, poured it down the sink after two sips... Friday, August 15, 2014
Jmar33	1.7 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle. Nothing particularly special about this, other than that it is at the lower end of the good pale ale spectrum... Friday, August 15, 2014
Bygers	2.3 Pigs Fly Pilsner Bottle 0,33l. Pours a clear straw colour with very little head. Aroma of hops, vegetable with some floral hints. Crisp fruity floral foretaste with a fair amount of bitterness in the finish. Light body and carbonation. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Medmedland	4 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Thursday, November 28, 2013
vanvenlo	2.9 Pigs Fly Pale Ale (31-Dec-2006) Sweet fruit hop aroma. Dark amber colour, goodish head and suds lacing. Big hop and light sweet malt flavour. Hoppy finish and sweet malt aftertaste. Friday, November 1, 2013
PPronoun	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Rob_D_UK	2.9 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Pours a clear copper with a thin white head. Floral aroma and the taste has a bitter finish. Monday, September 16, 2013
KeefOz	1.9 Pigs Fly Pilsner 330ml stubbie. BB 25/Jul/13. Poured a clear but uninspiring pale amber with a thin white foamy head that diminished quickly and laced poorly. Moderate carbonation seen by small bubbles forming trails. Aroma not much, may be a hint of hops. Taste initially nothing then followed by an unpleasant yeast taste - not nice. Low bitterness. Light body bordering on watery. An unpleasant sour yeast finish. Monday, June 17, 2013
Nysa67	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Saturday, June 15, 2013
Sevenlee	2.9 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Pours a clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is malt, hints of fruit, caramel and bread. Taste is light to medium sweet leading to a light bitter finish. OK. Tuesday, June 11, 2013
ALLOVATE	3.3 Pigs Fly Pilsner Hope that the recipe has changed since earlier ratings otherwise I must be getting soft in my ratings. Bit of a let down in the looks department but this pleasant offering made up for it in what is most important. It produces a sparkling yellow gold and donned by a paper thin sheet of white. The carbonation very sluggish, fine and intermittent. Pleasant, ripe citrus and tropical fruit on the nose over just a touch of grass and palest grains - very fresh, very clean. Nice, grainy malt profile gives it a little depth over those dominant fruity hops. Medium bitterness, crisp and short in the finish but residually sweet so drinking this chilled is highly recommended. Light bodied with very lively carbonation. Honeydew and grapefruit comes to mind with a lingering lychee note on the tongue. Overall a refreshing number; I thought this was a decent Summer quaffer. (33cL, BB 25/07/13, Liquor Baron’s Hillarys) Wednesday, May 1, 2013
madmitch76	2.7 Pigs Fly Pale Ale 28th February 2013 Cheers Jack. Clear amber beer, tidy pale cream coloured head. Light palate, semi dry and a little crisp. Light lagerish malt - a bit papery. Super mild citrus. Semi dry finish. Just about passes muster. Sunday, March 10, 2013
Scopey	2.6 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle, thanks to Jackl. It pours clear amber with a small off-white head. The nose is earth, light floral, malty, umami aspect and smoked ham. The taste is earth, toast, brown bread, decent bitterness, some underlying sweetness, metal and faint spice with a dry, earthy finish. Medium body and average carbonation. So-so at best. Friday, March 8, 2013
jackl	2.9 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle @ Bruce’s. Cheers to a generous co-worker who brought this back from Oz. The pour’s dee gold with a tiny head. THe nose is graham cracker sweetness. General grains and honey. Only a hint of mild hops. White bread. The taste is more of the same. Sweetened bready body, a bit of caramel. Softly hoppy finish. Pretty inoffensive stuff that’d be fine to kill at a barbecue. Overall, a decent beer. Sort of tastes like a bridge beer for craft converts. Friday, March 1, 2013
Leighton	3.1 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle at Bruce’s, London. Pours clear gold with a fine, creamy head. Bready malts in the nose, light caramel and cereal. Medium sweet flavor, toasty cereal, bread, caramel. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Fine cereal finish, light toast, dry brown sugars. Fair. Thursday, February 28, 2013
Nysa67	2 Pigs Fly Pilsner Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Bygers	2.7 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Draft 0,33l at The Hardware Store, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Poured a copper color with a thin white head that diminish quickly. Floral aroma with hint of butter, caramel, hops and malts. Taste of malts, flowers and a hint of fruits. A bitter hops finish. Moderate carbonation. Thursday, December 27, 2012
KeefOz	2.6 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Poured a clear golden amber colour with a thin white bubble head that diminished quickly. Poor lacing. Moderate to high carbonation. Aroma of hops and subtle malt. Taste of sweet malt followed by a slight hops bitterness. Light body. A long slightly bitter finish. Saturday, November 10, 2012
LesArgen	2.5 Pigs Fly Pale Ale A pleasant aroma of butter, peaches, malt and hints of citrus got me excited about this beer, only to let me down in the tasting. The palate is a little weak with very little of the malt body promised by the nose. There’s a moderate amount of grapefruit that gives this beer a refreshing Summer taste but it’s ultimately a little disappointing. Thursday, September 27, 2012
fletchfighters	2.5 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Thin, fairly decent malt backbone and some hops. Nothing too exciting or too interesting. Tuesday, August 7, 2012
jdpeebs	3.2 Pigs Fly Pale Ale 330ml Bottle. Copper in colour. Subtle hop aroma. Nice malt undertones and medium bodied, with refreshing lingering bitterness. A very enjoyable beer. Friday, May 11, 2012
jdpeebs	2.1 Pigs Fly Pilsner 330ml Bottle.Pours yellow, with a small head, not much in the aroma stakes, but subtle amarillo hop aroma. Reasonable beer, nothing special, but still drinkable Friday, May 11, 2012
gav12c	2.7 Pigs Fly Pale Ale pours amber with little to no head, not a lot of aroma,a little hops and malt. taste fairly bland, not terrible ,just plain. Saturday, March 10, 2012
jimmy01	3.8 Pigs Fly Pilsner Pours golden with reasobable head. Smell the amarillo during the pour. Clean and slightly fruity. Nice beer Sunday, January 22, 2012
Maris	1.9 Pigs Fly Pilsner From a 330ml bottle on 14/1/2012. Pours a clear pale yellow with a small head. Has a modest grainy aroma. The flavour is sweet malt and a touch of citrus. For a pilsener, it has a disappointing hop profile. Just barely better than bog standard macro pale lager. Friday, January 13, 2012
davidm	3.6 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle 330ml. Excellent beer. Aromas of caramel and biscuit, with a hint of butter. Taste is sweet, with average length, and bitter notes. Palate is oily, and medium bodied. Amber, with a thin head. Friday, September 16, 2011
hawthorne00	1.7 Pigs Fly Pilsner Bottle. Pale gold with a modest white head. Mild grainy aroma with citrus and weeds. Fizzy. Taste is sweet and grainy with some lager sourness and less than balancing bitterness. Sunday, January 30, 2011
Mjollnir	2.5 Pigs Fly Pale Ale 330mL bottle. Pours clear pale gold with a small persistent white head. Aroma of grass and sweet malt. Malty, mildly hoppy flavour, mild but harsh bitterness. Light bodied, average carbonation, quite creamy and smooth with a medium length finish. Sunday, December 12, 2010
Maris	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale From a 330ml bottle on 7/11/2010. Has a moderate grassy citrus fruit aroma. Taste wise, it’s relatively bland, with some sweet malt up front, a bit of citrus fruit, and a moderate hop finish. I’m a little disappointed, as I recall trying this some time ago and thinking it was quite good. Just a shade more interesting than a typical premium lager. Rating 2.4. Re-rate on 17/11/2012. Tasted significantly better this time round, with much more pronounced fruit and malt notes. Saturday, November 6, 2010
ndon	2.2 Pigs Fly Pilsner light yellow/gold in colour. not a beer that is heavy on flavour, but is quite citrusy on the nose Sunday, June 20, 2010
ndon	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale deep amber in colour, with an off white head that disappears quickly. a passable pale ale with slight citrusy aromas Sunday, June 20, 2010
mkel07	2.9 Pigs Fly Pilsner 330ml bottle. Light straw colour with a moderately lumpy white head that looks like freshly fallen snow. Zesty citrus aromas are pleasant enough as is the flavour, which is light and dry with a strong finish and smooth in the mouth. Friday, June 18, 2010
Mattburns	2.4 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Maybe it is because this beer is no longer brewed in Bowral. I remember when I first tried this and loved it. ... the second time round I was certain it was a different beer all together. Completely lost flavour. Very dissappointing. Wednesday, May 26, 2010
mkel07	3 Pigs Fly Pale Ale 330ml bottle. Dark amber in colour with a disappointing veil of faint white bubbles that try to pass themselves off as foam and struggle to stretch across the surface. Smells a whole lot better than it looks with floral and citrus aroma’s. Good body and mouthfeel and a nice taste - okay but not great. Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Pyobon	3.5 Pigs Fly Pilsner Bottle. Clear straw colour with very little head. Reasonable aroma - hops, vegetable with some floral hints. Light body and carbonation. Crisp fruity floral foretaste with a fair amount of bitterness in the finish. Quite a nice beer. Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Pyobon	3.2 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Bottle. Clear amber with little head. Aroma is subtle - floral hops and malt. Medium body and carbonation. Forestaste is subtle - malt with a perhaps fruity tag and decent floral hops. There is a nice bitter finish with a slight metallic edge to it. Thursday, January 8, 2009
highlandlad	1.8 Pigs Fly Pilsner Another disappointment in a poor crop of new beers at this years mini-beer fest at Sydneys Australian Hotel. The Pigs Fly pale ale is passable but this "pilsener" misses the target by some distance. Piss yellow colour with a poor head. Eccentric aroma of canned pineapple and Seltzer - very medicinal with no obvious Saaz. Fizzy palate. Weak malts, low ibu for the style and that nagging Seltzer note. Problematic. Avoid. [Bottle at the Australian Beer Festival, Nov 2008] Tuesday, December 9, 2008
MBison	1.6 Pigs Fly Pilsner Sampled at the Australian Beer festival (Bottle). Arrived golden yellow with a small, frothy, white head which was average lasting. Aroma was of grainy malts with honey, faint notes of lemon citrus and some wet paper. Flavor was overly sweet and was dominated by wet paper/cardboard with stale grainy malts and a minimal bitterness. Very little to report only words that come to mind are; unpleasant, bland and cheap homebrew. Steer clear of this one, just another pale larger to add to the list. Thursday, November 20, 2008
bluevegie	2.4 Pigs Fly Pale Ale Stubby enjoyed in the company of Sully and Highlandlad. Cloudy yellow body and very lemony in the taste. That about as many notes that I wrote about this beer, so not very impressive. Thursday, May 8, 2008