Beers – 2014 to 31/12/2017
4 Pines – “Indian Summer” Pale Ale
4 Pines – ESB
The ESB is , and abit more bitter than I usually see in an ESB. Good
The “Indian Summer” Pale Ale is a completely crushable pale ale, really nice fruity taste and smell, light refreshing tasting and only 4.2 percent. Awesome for a summer session beer.
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/
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…
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.
After 2 of the Ace of Base Saisons, reviewed in the previous post...8.5ABV…gotta stop
More Otra Vez.
How GOOD is this beer? I would drink this as a regular sessional always if it was available at my local.
I HOPE to hell its still available here during summer.
Looks like S.N. have this listed as a Year Round beer, thank the Gods.
Feral Brewing Brewpub series – Ace of Base Imperial India Saison
Made with Sorachi hops, which I love – Their Golden Ace Belgian Pale Ale, which used Sorachi, was one of the first beers to really turn me on to Hops [ the others being Sierra Nevadas Torpedo and Little Creatures Pale Ale]
This is…Its definitely a Saison, just amped up a fair bit. Smells fruity-yeasty, peppery, crushed ants, a bit of citrus…Its a cloudy, light yellow colour, Big head on pouring and zero to minimal lacing. A light fizz for carbonation.
The taste, again peppery, strong saison yeast character, not much of the citrusy-lemony Sorachi I love, but its in there at a low level, and it definitely comes through in the hops bitterness.
This reminds me a lot of the first Saison I tried to make, looks like I didnt fuck up at all if this is a saleable beer 😛 haha.
Its NOT BAD, but I really wish it was closer to the classic Golden Ace, what a great beer that was. If you like Saisons, this will give you more Saison in one bottle than you may have ever wanted.
Thanks to the guys at International Beer Shop for keeping a 4 pack aside for me.
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A bunch of regular “go-to’s”, and one very local beer.
The Hefe and Dunkel are both awesome beers.What else can be said about Weihenstephaner.
The Sail and Anchor Amber Ale was really damn good. Fresh, malty, slightly sweet, light bitterness, the grain really present. Very nice.
And two regulars: Coopers Best Extra Stout is just a good stout. Bitter, roasty grain, but not too sharp, a nice dark beer. The Guinness Extra Stout seems to be everywhere right now and is also very good. Similar to the Coopers stout in many ways, but it has a slight sour note to it, which I really like.
Sail and Anchor Pub and Brewery
Weihenstephaner – Hef Weissbier, Dunkel, Kristal Weissbier.
All amazing drinks, but that Hefe, so fucking good, always.
Garage Project – Hops on Pointe Champagne yeast Pilsner
BrewDog – Albino Squid Assassin Rye IPA
Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose
Sierra Nevada – Otra Vez Gose
Petrus – Aged Pale
Petrus – Oud Bruin
My RateBeer reviews for some of the above:
BrewDog – Albino Squid Assassin Rye IPA
Garage Project – Hops on Pointe Champagne yeast Pilsner 
Sierra Nevada – Otra Vez Gose
Petrus – Aged Pale
Petrus – Oud Bruin
Anderson Valley Briney Melon Gose I didn’t rate on RateBeer as I had drank it a lot earlier.It is an awesome gose and supremely easy drinking. You can smell the watermelon, its got a good briney taste, a very good beer.