Temptation
Red Hill Brewery in Red Hill South, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.41
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TedE (2767) reviewed Temptation from Red Hill Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
330ml bottle into glass. Sour malt nose. Murky orange/brown beer with slight film. Zingy on the tongue, raisins and alcohol in the finish. Cloves are apparent as it warms. Not my favourite Red Hill beer.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Temptation from Red Hill Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From a 330ml bottle on 30/11/2012. Pours a cloudy yellow golden with bugger all head. The aroma is Belgian yeast, some apple and spices. The flavour is sweet and fruity, with lots of yeast and spices present. There is some tart apple and more spices in the medium bitter finish. The carbonation is lively but typical of the style. While certainly not my favourite style, this is a decent crack at a strong Belgian ale.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Temptation from Red Hill Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
1st July 2012
Bottle at the Kernel. Hazy gold beer, big fluffy off white head. Light dry palate. Sweet malts. Traces of bubblegum and fruit salad sweets. Dry finish. Messy and sweet.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Temptation from Red Hill Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at brewery. Very cloudy orange with an off-white head. Aroma and taste of pears, candi sugar, dough, grapes, lemon, cloves. Very easy drinking for 8.5%. A little like one of those Belgian versions of an English Ale. Also a touch of German "new wine" if you’ve had it. Refreshing and engaging, but completely unlike the last time I tried this. Bottle, same day. Tap was very cloudy, so poured with abandon. Cloudy orange, white head. Aroma has dough, cloves, cheese, pears, apricots. Fruity sweetness with pears, grapes and apricots, dough; mildly spicy finish (white pepper, cardamon, cloves, vanilla) is also quite yeasty. Very cheesy yeast. Could use just a little astringency or bitterness? Bottle (2 days later). Equally careless pour, but this one’s clear orange with a white head that fades sharply. There’s sediment, but without swirling the bottom it didn’t come out this time - is goo at the bottom of the bottle. Aroma as above, but much less cheese. Rather more spice in the taste - it’s really quite peppery. This one really is quite Duvelish.I wouldn’t have picked any two of these as the same beer. Now I can’t remember what last year’s was like. I quite liked them all, but I guess the third was what they were going for. [3.4] Bottle. Frustrating, this one. All the flavours are there and the spices are lovely, but the yeastiness of it muddies things.
Davros (5279) reviewed Temptation from Red Hill Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a brilliant burnished gold with a big creamy head - too big in fact.Aroma shows lots of spices and fruit: sultanas, apples, pears as well as cinnamon and some subtle white wine notes. Lacking in yeasty aromas though.Flavours include more of the above fruit and spices, along with grapes, doughy yeast and some quite powerful alcohol which is almost overbearing in its presence. Quite a sharp and long-lasting bitterness which, along with some strong spicy phenols, creates a very bold finish.Alcoholic warming on the palate is too strong, and the body is slightly watery.A good try, but needs a lot of work. The alcohol needs to be tamed, and more complexity and balance is required in the flavour profile.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Temptation from Red Hill Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy yellow amber with very little white head. The aroma is superb and complex: malty, spicy, esters, almost a grassy hoppiness and vanilla. The body is full and creamy, enhanced by the carbonation which is signficant, but not fizzy, giving a superb feel. The flavour is again full and complex and excellent. There is rich, somewhat sweet malt and a little caramel, beautifully balanced by some tangy fruity flavours and spicy and floral hoppy notes. (The fruitiness seemed more bitter orange than apricots to me.) The finish is crisp with just the right bitterness and some rich lingering tastes. A truly excellent beer.