Tag: Pale Ale

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 16/9/16

Gage Roads – Little Dove New World Pale Ale. This is really nice.Very fruity, a nice bitterness at the end of each sip. Very fresh and rather refreshing, no sweetness from the malt, rather dry. So much in the nose and less on the palate.

Samuel Smith – India Ale. A light but nice maltyness, a rather blunt bitterness. Says drink at 11C, so I let it warm up and I guess the bitterness became more pronounced. It’s not bad but it’s rather one dimensional, and old style so you can’t really blame it for being what it is.

Weihenstephaner – Original Helle. This is good, I drank it , nice, easy, nothing too special. I didnt even think to rate it while drinking it because its was so easy. Lager, little bit funky on the hops and on the taste, wheaty? Its all a little bit. Nothing big. For a lager its good on flavour, but its not amazing, its good.

Weihenstephaner – Korbinian. A Doppelbock. Malty and nice, light to medium carbonation, more than guiness carb but not too much. The dark malt is whats going on here. Smells beer, tastes dark but with a nice sweetness, thats then taken over from the dark malt bitterness. Not idea what or where the hops are, theres a end note of maybe hops? but the grain is far more prominent.

Weihenstephaner – Vitus. Wheaty, this isnt bad but doesnt stand out in any way. Reminds me of the Helle, its a wheat beer. Its good but nothing special.

 

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 – 1/9/16

Cheeky Monkey – Travelling Monk Session Red Ale

Schofferhofer – Hefeweizen

Badger Brewing – Tangle Foot English Pale Ale

The Cheeky Monkey has a really nice bitterness that I dont think is all hops, and Im guessing the chocolate wheat and golden naked oats somehow add to that. The other maybe the Bravo hops – meant to be spicy – but Im unsure if I have encountered them before.  Low alcohol [3.5 percent] and the nice bitterness make it very drinkable.

The Hefe was  nice, an initial banana smell and taste, a spicyness with a nice refreshing citrus afterwards, not too spicy, but its there. This was well prices and definitely a beer I will buy again for casual drinking.

The Tangle Foot has a very nice sweet malty taste to it, caramel like, reminds me of chewing on some caraamber malt. Light fruity smell. It has a fair amount of  bitterness to it, not too much, which is good with the lower carbonation. Its rather abrupt in taste, you sip it, taste it all and then it ends with a slight bitterness and sweetness left, no real lingering aftertaste. Its not bad.

 

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

 

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 13/4/16

Petrus – Oud Bruin

Petrus – Aged Pale

Petrus – Aged Red

Founders – Spectra Trifecta – Kolsch style

Moon Dog – Old Mate – Pale ale

Moon Dog  – Mack Daddy – Dark ale

Notes:

Moon Dog pale ale was more hoppy than most IPA’s, Moon Dog is usually very up front I find, love their stuff, though, this was good if not a bit too bitter for me for a pale ale. yes, it did have the fruity nose they offered.

Founders kolsch smelled lovely, tasted a bit too hoppy for a kolsch for me, but still good doing its own thing, cinnamon? definitely, lemongrass? a bit, no ginger, though its on their label prominently.

The Petrus Aged Pale was NOT what I was expecting at all going in blind, I have only had Oud Bruin from Petrus previously, and never had an aged pale ale before. Very awesome beer, and noticed it in the next beer

The aged red was very sour cherry and real nice, sour cherry always has a “fake” taste to me, for some reason, thats cherrys fault, not the beers, liked it. Not overbearing, but def a sometimes beers.

Mack Daddy is super low carbonation and has heaps of malt bitterness, its OK at best. Theres better in this style.

Oud Bruin is still just that and a great beer. Love it.