Wild Yak Pacific Ale
Matilda Bay Brewing Co. in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
5.68
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5.5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
345ml bottle. Opalescent, orange, golden colour with small to average, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally grainy, pale malty and slightly grassy, hoppy aroma, minimally doughy, yeasty overtones, not much to specify. Taste is mildly bitter, minimally fruity and grassy hoppy, minimally grainy, pale malty basis with low residual sweetness, a touch of yellow apple; minimally mineral finish.
Watery texture, smooth, simultaneously minimally dry palate, medium, dense, prickly carbonation.
Nothing wrong, but quite anaemic - so-so.
Watery texture, smooth, simultaneously minimally dry palate, medium, dense, prickly carbonation.
Nothing wrong, but quite anaemic - so-so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2025
at 18:00
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33cl bottle from Angkor Market. Medium white head. Clear golden pour. Light bitterness. A bit watery though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2020
at 09:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle. Clear golden with a medium white head. Fruity aroma, plenty of tropical fruit in the flavour as well
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2020
at 00:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pleasant, mellow pale ale. Zesty, tropical fruit, a little dry hop, melony and slightly floral finish. Fine but not memorable.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2019
at 20:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Mainstream take on a tropical pale ale. Not much more to say than that. Blah
Tried
on 24 Dec 2018
at 12:39
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
From a 355ml bottle on 18/9/2018, a day after trying the underwhelming Lazy Yak. Pours a clear light golden with the tiniest of heads. Has a very slight nose with just some muted fruitiness. The same goes for the flavour - some light fruit sweetness against a sweet malt background, with a very gentle hint of bitterness at the back. Light bodied with average carbonation. What can I say. A fair bit worse than Fat Yak, a touch better than Lazy Yak, marginally better than your typical macro pale, but an inferior APA.The label describes it as a 'fresh and fruity tropical beast'. That is utter bullshit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2018
at 03:48
4/10
Tried
on 10 Feb 2018
at 06:54
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pours vibrant gold with a large head.Nose shows grassy hops, soft peach, biscuity malt, slight corn and cardboard.Flavours include corn, sweet malt, grainy notes, sweet melon and grassy hops, light cardboard.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2017
at 04:37
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at the Birmingham Hotel, Melbourne. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin white head. The aroma is malt, light citrus hop. The flavour is moderate to light bitter with a yeast, light fruity, grassy hop bitter palate. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. A little light and lacking flavour but what flavour it had was decent. Don’t understand the earlier super low ratings.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jun 2017
at 06:16
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle, Blacktown, Australia. Pours yellow with a huge white head. Aroma of light malt, flowers, little fruit. Flavor is rather weak, light sweet, light malt, flowers, sweet fruit, melon. Thin body, soft carbonation, light sweet finish. 110317
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2017
at 06:19