Ghost of Eyre Pale Ale
Steamrail Brewing Company in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.03
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Old rating from 26-03-15 - 330ml bottle brought back from Australia by friends. Pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, citrus, orange, pine, grass & malt. Medium body & carbonation. Dry moderate bitter finish. Passably enjoyable as a one off
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2025
at 08:25
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2025
at 17:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Clear light amber with a fading white head. Modest but pleasant aroma with some bread crust, hints of orange and passionfruit. Thinnish but not quite watery. Highish carbonation. Not as sweet as expected but there are hints of toffee as well as light bread. The fruit is subtle but it's clean enough still to register. Dry enough at the end so the moderate bitterness is also enough to register. More grassy/ weedy there than tropical. Steamrail is a Coles supermarket front brand but this is _way_ better than most of this type and a perfectly respectable quaffer.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2019
at 11:00
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle into schooner glass. Peppery sweet nose, even a touch of citrus. Pale amber beer with small white head. A lot of tiny bubbles rising. A bit watery. Finish is short with faint notes of caramel,pepper, lemon and lavender. Not bad, eminently drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2015
at 00:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours amber with a fading head.Nose shows sweet malt with hay notes alongside floral hops with a soft fruity hint.Very similar flavours, some light malt character with more floral and spicy hops. Feels a bit lacking beyond the initial burst.Body feels a little watery.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2013
at 23:19
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 0.5
Actually not too bad a beer. However is brewed by Coles even though you wouldn’t know it by looking at the labelling. Very shifty.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2013
at 00:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a 330ml bottle on 11/3/2013. Pours a clear very light golden with a small head. Has a slight aroma of bready malt and a hint of citrus and honey. The flavour is relatively sweet and fruity, with a hint of caramel malt. A slight to medium hop bitterness finishing things off. A reasonable, pleasant enough APA (not English in style) but not much different to a raft of other subdued, inoffensive Aussie pales which seem to be hitting the market of late. Still, I guess one should be thankful they’re not making more abysmal pale lagers...
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2013
at 22:30
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Bottle) Clear pale amber yellow with no head. Pleasant citrus aroma with hints of candy and grass. Light bodied and a little over fizzy. Initial taste is quite peasant with a balance of candy sweetness and softly citrus tang. This shifts fairly smoothly to a bitter finish, which is fairly prominent and lasting but unfortunately is rathe harsh and metallic. It’s quite respectable for a beer that seems to have been manufactured for a chain of liquor stores, but it lacks real class.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2013
at 03:30