500ml can. Pours slightly hazy bright orange red. Pineapple, guava, toffee, caramel, orange juice, strong bitter finish. Good full body. Very nice.

Pours amber with a large fading head.Nose shows caramel, pine, resinous hops, grapefruit, and soft floral notes.Flavours include more pine, heavy caramel, soft sultana notes, a bit of resinous hops, a fair whack of booze.

From a 330ml can on 31/7/2017. Pours a slightly cloudy mediu golden with a small head.The nose features fruity hops and light caramel. Take a sip and you get a satisfying combo of caramel and biscuit malt, and citrus, stone and tropical fruit (mandarin, peach, pineapple and mango). The hops are pretty firm and quite resiny. The texture is quite thick and syrupy, and the carbonation is quite soft, Has more than a bit of Pirate Life IIPA to it, which is a very good thing. All up, a lovely, satisfying, quite full on double IPA. I’m actually pleased that Oz brewers are not blindly following the yanks style wise when it comes to producing big IPAs.

Can Thought I was buying a stout because the label’s black and I didn’t look carefully enough. Clear amber with a white head that lasts well. 4 Aroma of pine, toffee, sugarplums, apricots, grapefruit. Lightish bodied. Sweet with apricot cake, caramel, greengages (wondered about butterscotch in the aroma, certainly doesn’t show up in the texture), light citrus and some pepper. Fairly bitter. A bit like a much stronger Holgate Mt Macedon. Alcohol is quite well hidden but I’m not sure there’s enough to justify its strength. OK though.