Month: August 2016

Beers – 31/8/16

Magic Rock – High Wire Grapefruit Pale Ale

Magic Rock – Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose

Holgate Brewing – Hop Tart Semi-Sour Pale Ale

Two canned beers from a UK Craft brewery, not something I see or drink often. Both interesting beers/styles with some interesting ingredients.
The High Wire Grapefruit Pale Ale was nice and had a good grapefruit bitterness, sitting well with the hop bitterness. The Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose had a nice [goose]berry tartness along with the saltyness, It also contained Sea Buckthorne – which are a berry that tastes “astringent, sour”, and I think I can notice such a taste and it not being the gooseberries, but its hard to say having never tasted Sea Buckthorne.Both good beer, sessionable, refreshing and interesting.

The Hop Tart was also nice, and another sour pale ale – a good combination, I like sour appearing more. Very enjoyable with a nice big bitter and sour hit. Im not sure how many beers I have had from Holgate in the past but this was both tasty and, again, and interesting beer, so I will keep an eye on that name.

Also at the IBS were Hostess Twinkies. I purchased one and my review walking home eating it was:

“Doughy soft, kinda uncooked sponge. The filling is like Fluff marshmallow spread…Wouldn’t eat more than one. Very sweet.”
 The sponge “cake” was surprising a lot sweeter than the filling.
 And heres a picture or two

 

Beer 24/8/16

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Cheeky Monkey – Belgian IPA

This is nice. The bitterness of an IPA, not a crazy IPA, a moderate one,  with the pepperyness from Rye and that Belgian yeastyness of a Saison. Its a good mix. Has the stink of NZ hops and Belgian Saison yeast.

Malts – Abbey, Rye, Caraaroma, Carahell
Hops – Rakau, Cascade, Motueka, Chinook

Doesnt list what particular yeast but I’d guess a Belgian possibly Saison yeast?

Beers 20/8/16

Tennents – Export Original Larger

Brains – Black Welsh Stout

Both of these were good. The larger has a maltyness I dont want to say sweet but, sweeter than a usual larger. A definite lagered yeast flavour, if thats a thing – not a funk but something like that.

The stout was nice and malty, again it has taste to it that wasnt crazy strange but had a different maltyness for a dark malt than I can pin on other beers of this style.

Beers 18/8/16

 

Founders – Re Dank Ulous Imperial Red IPA

8 Wire – Palate Trip Sour IPA

The Founders IRIPA was not very dank, to be honest, I wanted it to be a real dank stinker, but it was just a good beer. Not much else to say. It was good.

The 8 Wire sour IPA is really damn good. The bitter and the sour collide at the right point and work awesome together. Very tart, bitter, nice stuff. This is a style I would like to drink more of.

 

Beers 13/8/16

Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose

Timothy Taylor – Landlord Pale Ale

Shepherd Neam – India Pale Ale

CUB – Melbourne Bitter

Adnams – Ghost Ship  Pale Ale

Had a Dogs Bollocks and a Melon Gose still around. Still loving that nitro carbonation.

The Landlord Pale ale was good, same for the Shepherd Neam IPA and the Adnams Pale Ale. Been reading Shut Up About Barkley Perkins a lot.

Melbourne Bitter is better than VB and Export.

Also had a 4 Pines Kolsch, a Founders All Day IPA and a Tooheys Old.

Great great great site: http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com.au/

Beers 12/8/16

Sierra Nevada – Hoptimum IPA

Founders – Mosaic Promise Single Hop Ale

Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose

Been over IPA’s for forever now, no Idea why I still buy them. Hoptimum was peppery, very hop bitter.

Mosaic Promise wasnt bad, but I didnt get a sense of Mosaic, unless its a standard Founders hop and then its just a common hop taste…

Beers 5/8/16

Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter

Boatrocker Brewery – Saison du Bateau

4 Pines – Keller Door: Double Cascadian Dark Ale

Cheeky Monkey – Silver Back Russian Imperial Stout

All good beers, the standout was the Nitro carbonated ESB. Really, really great carbonation.

Beers – 3/5/16

 

Black Brewing – BaoBao Milk Stout

Founders – Stout

Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat NV – Maredsous 8 Brune Dubbel

Nail – Huge Dunn Imperial Brown Ale

Feral Brewing – BORIS Russian Imperial Stout

Brauerei Heller-Trum / Schlenkerla – Fastenbier Rauchbier

The Black Brewing milk Stout is very sessionable, Bitter in a good way from the malt and the hops, but balanced and not overbearing, actually quite light for the style. And made in Margaret River, nice.

The Maredsous 8 was good, it was quite high on the alcohol front as far as taste. Not bad, but not the best for the style, as far as my tastes.

The Fastenbier is interesting, a lighter actual beer, but still with the same smokeyness as their Urbock and such.

The rest are good and most likely reviewed previously