Superbeast 2016
HopDog BeerWorks in South Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.89
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hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Superbeast 2016 from HopDog BeerWorks 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Crept out of the bottle. Pours clear deep amber with a huge light beige head. Aroma of toffee, dried fruit, fruit cake spices, orange and lemon peel. 7+ Full bodied, way over carbonated. Sweet with a big bitter citrus kick at the end. Lots of dried and semi dried fruit, some of it almost as though it’s fermenting. Really needs the bitterness at the end. Boozy, more so than 10.5% would suggest. Interesting but not convincing.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Superbeast 2016 from HopDog BeerWorks 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 6/2/2017.Pours a murky dark amber with a big foamy head. As a huge fan of previous Super Beasts, I got a box of 16 as an Xmas present from the wife. Through about 12 now, so am now well familiar with the brew. The bottles are weird, slow gushers. It doesn’t burst out of the bottle but rather oozes foam, even when the bottle is half decanted. The nose is strong, sweet and fruity, with notes of berries and plums. In the mouth, it’s very sweet and rich, with blueberry the dominant flavour, along with some plum, date and spicy fruit sauce. There’s a big rye bitterness and booziness at the back. The texture is slick and syrupy, and the carbonation a bit excessive. Not as impressive as the past three iterations, and particularly let down by the carbonation. But it’s big, original, very tasty and quite impressive none the less.