Porter – OK BEER DUDE

Mad River – Uniontown Porter

admin — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:42:38 +0000

Mad River Brewery – Uniontown Porter, 2017, 6.5%ABV, 355ml bottle

Drank on 3/12/2017, from Bottle-O, Vic Park.

Appearance: 2.5 – Dark brown, almost black, opaque, decent head on pouring.

Smell/Aroma: 3 – Sweet roasty malts, smoky peat, this uses peated malt, cocoa powder, bitter chcocolate. vegemite.

Taste: 3 – Bitter chocolate, cocoa, dark roasted malt.Peat, smoke, Nice lasting hop bitterness. Very slight medicinal almost licorice aftertaste.

Mouthfeel/Palate: 2.5 – Smooth, bitter. The smoked peat adds a dryness that I think accentuates the bitterness.

Overall: 3 – Very good. Great combination of aromas and tastes, well balanced. Very enjoyable.

https://www.madriverbrewing.com/

Beers 30/9/16

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:28:38 +0000

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 – 14/9/16

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:01:35 +0000

Oskar Blues – Hotbox Coffee Porter. This was good but may have to get another as I dont remember too much about it [writing this weeks later…]. I do remember it was dark, malty, coffee in a very raw way.

Mornington Peninsula – Nitro Sacchariferous Stout. This is Tinnage 006. A really nice milk stout with that great nitro carbonation.Little bit sweet, nice malt bitterness and a dark thick head.

Nail – Huge Dunn Imperial Brown Ale. Good and probably reviewed elsewhere on here.

Beer – 24/7/15

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:31:21 +0000

Feral – Smoked Porter

Chimay – Blue Grande Reserve

Sierra Nevada & New Clairvaux Abbey – Ovila Belgian Style Abbey Tripel

Beers – 4/7/15

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 10:58:49 +0000

Beer 15/4/15 – Harviestoun Brewery – Old Engine Oil Black Ale

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:49:43 +0000

Harviestoun Brewery – Old Engine Oil Black Ale