Millennium Falcon 2013

From a 500ml bottle on 28/4/2013. Pours a deep opaque golden with a medium head which disappears quickly. Has a lovely floral fruity aroma which isn’t really typical of the style. In the mouth, it starts out very sweet with apricot, peach and nectarine all there in spades. The counterbalancing bitterness is definitely there, but again it’s not the grapefruity, piny or resiny type you’d expect in a typical DIPA. That said, it’s still got a lot to offer to hop heads, with floral and herbal hops which linger in the mouth. the palate is slightly syrupy and the carbonation moderate. All up, and enjoyable and quite unusual DIPA. I suspect this is getting punished on here because it’s Australian. I bet if this was put out by an American brewery with a big rep, raters would be lauding it.

Bottle at RBJG 2 Grand Tasting, thanks Unm4rk3d. clear golden colour with a small white head. No lacing. Hoppy aroma. Slightly sour citric flavour.

Bottle at RBJG courtesy of Unm4rk3d, thank you sir! Clear pale yellow color. Aroma of lemongrass. Taste is bitter lemon.

thick syrupy sweet fruity nose with a bit of wood and caramel. Thick mouth, too syrupy sweet, but not bad. A touch too woody and a touch stale note. Very average.

Bottle. Clear glowing gold with a large white head that laces well. Aroma of peach, passionfruit, oranges and their blossoms, pepper, candi sugar. Moderate carbonation keeps it just short of syrupy. Sweetish and fruity but strong bitterness kicks in straight away. Mainly oranges and peach, the passionfruit notes seem to disappear. Zestier citrus flavours than suggested by the aroma. Certainly boozy but only a little rawness to it. Not super clean (thankfully) and the oranges and spices have a Belgian edge to them. Intensely bitter finish leans a fair way towards dry with citrus and pepper. Not really my bag, but thoroughly enjoyable.