Category: Beer

Beers 17/11/16

 

Rodenbach Grand Cru. A Sour Flanders Red Ale. “A blend of 1/3 young beer and 2/3 of beer aged 2 years in large oak vats” If thats all going on here, and the wild yeast/lacto, that is awesome, as its tastes like its laced, drenched, with sour cherries, this is good. The standard Rodenbach, the stuff in cans, has tasted to me like a bad red wine. This though is good. On first sip, in the first second, I was like…oh shit, theres a dry woodyness, but then the crazy flavours appear and its really damn good. This is very nice.

Westmalle Trappist Dubbel. This is dark but carbonated, but still with a slick mouthfeel expected from a dark beer. Light to medium body I guess. fruity yeastness. Malty, some light dark fruit but also citrus? This is 7 percent but I dont detect alcohol. Its not bad at all. Hard to compare as I dont really remember what the last or first Dubbel I had was.

Westmalle Trappist Tripel. This is nice. Spicy, Ive had this before Im sure. Its good. This has an alcohol taste or some hoppy taste that melds with the alcohol, its not medicinal in a bad way but they both happen to appear around the same time and meld and its good but odd. Unsure what my first review said, I’d need to do this again to make a better review. 9.5 percent jesus christ.

Rochefort Trappistes 10. This very rich but light mouthfeel, and yes you can taste the 11 percent here. It has a dark malt richness but I have no idea what they use, no burnt or coffee shit though. Theres like zero hops bitterness. Theres a thickness to the mouth and then an alcohol hello… This is good as a sipper, a take some time beer, but the carbonation and light mouthfeel make you think otherwise . Its not bad. I dont understand its godlike-ness

 

Beers – 12/11/16

Feral Brewing in CANS FINALLY

Warhog, Perth Local, Sly Fox

Sly Fox Summer Ale. This is, as always, a nice easy beer, cant notice too much difference between cans and bottles on this one. Its a slight bit more hoppier, maybe? the smell has a bit more range, maybe? Its very sessional, which is the point of a summer ale and I guess the cans here are more of a convenience factor.

Warhog American IPA. This is great, and as good from a can [a rather fresh new can] as when I have had it on tap. Smells fruity like passionfruit, has a lemony hop bitterness, obviously hop forward but still has a nice light malt that doesnt challenge the great hopping. Having this in cans for hop freshness and as a regular is a great idea.

Perth Local Lager. This is great. I think if distribution is good and its easy to get to it will probably be my regular [currently anything is my regular, but its mainly Coopers Sparkling or Pale Ale].Its a lager but unike most on the shelf here it has good real character. A nice hoppy interesting bitterness and a good mild yet flavorful malt taste.

Beers – 10/11/16

So I had the Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose, and its good. Different to the Melon Gose, obviously. This one has more sour and citrus taste. If I could mixed a 6 of them It would be just the best summer drinking 6 pack. Its not as salty,  and I guess thats the fruit bitter maybe knocking some of that out. Its good.Its very enjoyable.

Also had A few Cheeky Monkey Old Reliable Pale Ales. These were good but nothing magic, a solid for its style I guess. Not bad, just good.

Beers – 20/10/16

Deschutes Brewery – Mirror Pond Pale Ale. Smells good, tastes OK. 4 months old.I cant tell what the hops are – its 100 percent Cascade I have just read. Ok bitterness, and a mild caramel malt hint. This is OK, its a standard pale ale, cant really mess it up. On finishing the bottle with was nice, but would have been better when a lot fresher and less traveled.

Deschutes Brewery -Hop Slice Session IPA. India Pale Ale Brewed With Meyer Lemons. Fizzy soapy looking head, nice bright golden yellow/orange colour. Not very carbonated, actually quite watery. Bottled 07/16. Tastes bitter like lemon pith. Looks like the actual lemon juice taste is gone here. This probably needs to be drank super fresh.

Modus Operandi – Former Tenant Red IPA. Nice smell fruity as hell, nice head. The first sip is bitter sweet with caramel like malts, bitter hops and a nice peppery thing. The fruity smell just doesnt quit. The hop bitterness isnt clouding the malt flavours after multiple sips, or that peppery thing which I think is the hops whish is still there – I’d say rye but no rye, Does wheat do this? Theres wheat in here. The hop bitterness melds well with the malts. This was canned 17/8 and it still has a nice fresh hop burn/the peppery thing?. This is good.

Mornington Peninsula –Mosaic Single Hop IPA Tinnage 007. Reviewed previously. Still good.

Cheeky Monkey – Southern Wailer Hop Flinger West Coat IPA. Still good, still fucking hoppy.

 

 

Beers – 14/10/16

Anchor Brewing – California Lager. This is good, but todays didnt remind me of my first – which I thought was amazing. Maybe this one was a bit old. It felt a bit dulled and the malt was down and the bitterness quite one note. I will try this again, as it is great and Im sure this was just a bit of a dud.

Mornington Peninsula –Mosaic Single Hop IPA. This is Tinnage 007. A nice single hop IPA. I do like mosaic hops but more for smell/flavour etc, the bitterness is there and it OK but not that enjoyable to me.

Deschutes Brewery – Fresh Squeezed IPA. This smells a bit funky hops and its just Mosaic with Citra. A bit old this one, the hops are dull, the smell could be better. The beer itself seems pretty reliant on it being hoppy, theres not much else I can see going on, and the age had left the hops with only a blah bitterness. Will have to try again with a fresher bottle.

Cheeky Monkey – Southern Wailer Hop Flinger West Coat IPA. Still good, still fucking hoppy.

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose. Still great.

 

Beers 30/9/16


Cheeky Monkey – Southern Wailer Hop Flinger West Coat IPA. Supposedly canned on the 28/9 or abouts, and I’d believe that, the hops have the sting on the lips of eating a hop pellet. Very fresh, great smell and great tasting, strong bitterness. The smell of passionfruit and other lovely fruits are really strong all the way through. The taste is bitterness and hops before malt, what malt there is is a lightly sweet hint before being devoured by the hops. Nice, very nice.

Gage Roads – Back Yard Brew ESB. Limited release and a colab with Grant Smith, winner of a competition they ran. MALTY, this is hella malty, roasty, nutty, brown, and English hops. That initial malt hit is really nice, then it balances out and is just a good drink. This was a good beer.

Red Hook – ESB. Sweet smelling carmel malt smell, crushed malt grain smell, light lacing for a head. Tastes malty grain, like eating some malt grains, bready, bitter orange? A malt sweetness that ends quickly in a nice bitterness. Has a good mouthfeel as well, not light or watery and a slightly dry finish. This very nice, a solid ESB with a bit more nice and enjoyable range/depth in flavour than many, but not at all out of character.

Anchor – Porter. Still good, reviewed previously.

Brauerei Heller-Trum / Schlenkerla – Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche  Doppelbock. Good, but not as good as their others I have had. The doppelbock doesnt do it for me as much as say the Rauchbier Urbock or Märzen.

Beers 24/9/16

Innate Brewing – Donald Grump – It’s a brown ale and I think I can taste actual brown malt. Not much mouthfeel and a big head on pour that died down . Smell is light coffee but mainly malt, darker malts, very malty and not any noticeable hops or hops bitterness.

Mash Brewing – Copycat IPA – A Good American style IPA.

Brasserie Belle-Vue – Belle-Vue Kriek – Nice, a good cherry taste without the artifical flavour that comes with many cherry krieks and cherry beers in general.

Beer – 21/9/16

Two Birds – Taco Beer. A Wheat Ale. This was…like a less…less something Saison? It was easy drinking, maybe the spicing/flavouring made me think Saison, coriander like a Saison, lime for some sourness, also brewed with some corn for the Mexican/taco thing??. It was nice, not a taco, I was expecting some kind of spicy hotness I guess. Good beer, would drink again.

Newcastle  – Brown Ale. This is nice and once again a UK sessional beer. Malty, nice, nothing too exciting. I just read the word “legacy brew” and I think this is something a lot of normal/standard/sessional UK beers are. Its a style thats for drinking at a pub when you want a beer, not some craft, modern, interesting or over flavoured or whatever…