Subsidiaries
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Can: Poured a golden with white head. Aroma is grain, light hops. Taste is nice blend of grain and hops. Another refreshing beer by Green Bench.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jun 2026
at 17:15
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: Poured a golden with a white head. Aroma is nice grain. Taste is nice crisp grain. Easy drinking and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jun 2026
at 17:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber brown with a huge beige head. Nose has a wonderful leathery character, earthy saison yeast, and light bugginess. Flavour is much the same, with burnt malts, leather, saison yeast, and some bugs. Dark saisons/table beers are a hard thing to do, but they nailed this. Very good yeast profile and dark malts combine well. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 17:46
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
330mL bottle, pours jet black with a small dark brown head. Aroma is full of super rich bourbon, deep roasted malt, some dark chocolate undertones, and oak. Flavour is remarkably rich, with intense bourbon, beautiful dark sugar, vanilla, cocoa, and a touch of sticky toffee. Wonderful malt base, remarkable barrel character. Beauty.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 17:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Green Bench, pours a clear pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out tons of complex bugginess, crisp apple skins, some gentle vinous character, and oak. Flavour is likewise complex and well-crafted, with lots of wild yeast, gentle apple skins, oak, and a touch of vinous character. Dry, funky, vinous, and apple-y in wonderful cohesion. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 03:21
5.4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 6
On tap at Green Bench, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma has gentle coffee upfront, with light earthiness and some toasted malt. Flavour has a rather vegetal coffee character, with very light, flimsy malts. Sure, it’s a dry stout, but I want more malt and more coffee in my coffee stouts, and less vegetal character. Not bad, but far from optimal.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 02:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
On tap at Green Bench, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Nose has sweet melony hops, some citrus, some pine, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour has a nice melony hop character, with piney, some light dankness, and crisp biscuity malt. Good hop expression, though not exactly typical for NZ hops. Good balance, good construction; solid.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 02:56
5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
On tap at Green Bench, pours a clear blonde with a small white head Aroma has a rather sweaty hop character—definitely lacking brightness—with a dry, earthy, bready malt base. Flavour does not reveal a very pleasant hop expression: lots of sweaty, tired notes, earthiness, almost a bit of THC. Lacking brightness. This doesn’t work for me.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 02:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Green Bench, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of mineraly notes, light-to-moderate dry smoke for the style, and soft wheaty notes underpinning this. Flavour is dry, smoky and mineraly, with gentle campfire smoke upfront, mineraly notes, and soft wheaty notes. I was warned this was really smoky, but it’s on the more timid side for the style. A bit too mineraly, but reasonable done.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 02:53
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Green Bench, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out light grassiness and crisp biscuity malt, but I’m straining to get much. Flavour is crisp, with a nice gently bitter, crisp, grassy hop character, and a crisp biscuity malt. Great hop expression and well-constructed. Very nicely done helles.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Bench Brewing Co.
on 20 May 2026
at 02:51