Southerly Buster Dark Ale
The Steam Exchange Brewery in Goolwa, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.58
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From a 330ml bottle on 14/8/2012. Pours a dark amber with a small fine head. Has a slightly unusual aroma of caramel malt and pear. In the mouth, it’s malt dominated with sweet caramel and lots of brown sugar, some hints of dark fruit, and a medium roasty bitterness at the back. A decent brown ale.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 13C. Dark toffee with a ridiculous light beige head. But just a conditioning mistake, it seems - aroma of vinegar toffee, toasted malt, preserved ginger, mace. Unsurprisingly too fizzy. Taste has toasted malt, caramel, malt vinegar, raisins, less spice than suggested by the smell. They haven’t got the bottling anywhere near right, but there’s a pretty good beer lurking underneath the fizz.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours copper with a small head.Aroma shows lots of rich malt, with treacle, dark brown sugar and figs quite prominent. Pretty nice!Similar flavours, not so malty though. Also shows some oats and nutty notes.Carbonation is a little high for this kind of beer.A little rough on the edges but a solid attempt.