IPA – Page 2 – OK BEER DUDE

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 3/9/16

Schofferhofer- Grapefruit Wheat Beer Radler

Petrus – Blond Belgian Pale Ale

Petrus – Dubbel Bruin

Sierra Nevada – Hop Hunter IPA

Sierra Nevada – Torpedo Extra IPA

The Grapefruit Radler was almost lollywater. 2.5 percent , extremely easy drinking, a light grapefruit bitterness and smell. Its a weird one, its not bad but…yeah. If you want a session grapefruit “drink” this may be it.

The Petrus Blond is a weird one, I was expecting something lighter. Its more amber, with a good caramel malty taste, a bit of alcohol present too. Candy malt/syrup I think is what does it? Nice moderate bitterness from hops. Smells “Belgian” if thats a thing, a good malty citrus aroma.

Petrus Dubbel Bruin has a lighter alcohol/candy thing taste than the Blond, and far less smell, still has a light nice fig, dried date, slightly spiced smell thing going on though. The taste is so so, though. Its there, then its gone. Malty, a short sharp hope of what you smell, but thats it.

The Hop Hunter, no idea when this was bottled, cant find a date stamp. I’ve had this before, its Hoppy, but unless its super fresh as hell can I really say how this is much better than many big IPA’s? Still has that weird corner of the lip burn.

Torpedo…nothing to say, the beer that made me go FUCKING HELL and get into craft beer and know the potential of hops. Its still good.

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 23/06/16

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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

Albino Squid

Garage Project – Hops on Pointe Champagne yeast Pilsner

Sierra Nevada – Otra Vez Gose

Otra Vez

Petrus – Aged Pale

Petrus Aged Pale

Petrus – Oud Bruin

Petrus Oud Briun

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.