6/10
There’s heat, barley, hops and peach, but it’s not a very good beer
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2021
at 16:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Gold with an inch + deme white head. Aroma is piney but soft with bread, kumquat, some mango. Sweet with more prominent tropical notes as well as lots of pine and a drying bitter finish with some spices. Perhaps not surprisingly Tusk-like. Really good.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2021
at 13:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 375ml can on 4/7/2021. Pours a clear medium golden with a bright white head. The nose is bright, with pine, resin and some vinous notes. The taste features some sweet biscuit malt and citrus, which is met by a big pine/resin hoppiness, with some wine elements presenting. The mouthfeel is slick, the carbonation average. Very well done.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2021
at 05:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Dark reddish brown with a beige head that fades to a coat. Aroma of dark bread, cherries, chocolate, slightly earthy spices. A little edge of singed caramel in the taste too but it's not all that sweet (is that why it's not a dunkel bock?) with the cherry and bread flavours coming through but the chocolate not so much. Then firmish bitterness. Tasty and unusual - although there are more dark lagers cropping up in Australia now than for many years.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2021
at 13:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Just unclear gold with an inch of white head. Aroma of lemon pudding, crackers and light biscuit, flowers. Dryish with light malt and some doughy yeast backing lots of citrus and light spices before medium high bitterness. Good. Refreshing with glances towards De Ranke's XX Bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2021
at 13:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Gold with a fluffy white head. Aroma of grainy bread with hints of buttered corn,; spicy, floral and lemon notes above. Not all that sweet but the feel of richness lingers until tidied away by moderate bitterness leaving flowers and spices. Pretty good - a bit more bitterness would have suited me.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2021
at 12:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
This version canned 20 Oct is 10% ABV and is clearly an INEIPA. Pretty risque can art. Opaque orange with a white head that's soon a coat. Aroma of peach and apricot nectar, some lime and pineapple. Just short of syrupy, lowish carbonation. Sweet with lots of fruit, little else. Bitterness is pretty low but there's a grassy and herbal burn that kind of does the job at the end.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2020
at 13:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 375ml can on 14/11/2020 (shared with Butz). Pours a slightly hazy medium golden with a smallish head. Has a modest citrsu and stone fruit nose. It's quite sweet with a biscuit malt backbone and stone fruit sweetness, along with some tropical notes. The bitterness is quite modest. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Pleasant and very easy drinking for the size, but not particularly noteworthy.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2020
at 03:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Very sightly unclear amber with a puffy inch of white head that lasts OK and laces well. Aroma of kumquats, pineapple, passionfruit, breadcrust. A fair bit of body, medium carbonation. As described, it's not trying just to be hoppy. Sweet with breadcrust, some stone fruit and tropical fruit then resin and a touch of warmth towards a firmly bitter finish. Very good - but not as impressive as normal Ace.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Oct 2020
at 12:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from Winerack at home. Transparent copper ruby pour with white head. Aroma is heady pine resin and some chlorine/soapiness. Very West Coast style. Taste is same - dank resin pine bomb. Some biscuity sweet malt to balance. Medium heavy alcohol at the end. Relatively light but smooth palate. Lingering warmth and bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2020
at 15:05