Hop Flinger – OK BEER DUDE https://beers.crunky.website Beers - 2014 to 31/12/2017 Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:57:07 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 88343967 Beers – 20/10/16 https://beers.crunky.website/beer/beers-201016/ https://beers.crunky.website/beer/beers-201016/#respond Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:52:11 +0000 http://dude.okdude.net/?p=920 Continue reading "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.

 

 

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Beers – 14/10/16 https://beers.crunky.website/beer/beers-141016/ https://beers.crunky.website/beer/beers-141016/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:14:08 +0000 http://dude.okdude.net/?p=909 Continue reading "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.

 

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Beers 30/9/16 https://beers.crunky.website/beer/beers-30916/ https://beers.crunky.website/beer/beers-30916/#respond Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:28:38 +0000 http://dude.okdude.net/?p=892 Continue reading "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.

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