7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Deep red with a beige head that’s soon a fat coat. 3+ Woody aroma with fresh bark as well as oak, dark honey, prunes, leather. Lighter bodied and not as sweet as suggested by the aroma. Honey, somewhat astringent wood. Lemony, peppery honey finish with some bitterness. Pretty good, interesting. Grew on me as it warmed from about 12C.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2017
at 08:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From bottle. Black and thick on pour. Strong burnt coffee notes on nose. Packs a punch in all the right ways. Bitterness counterbalances the coffee very well to avoid wet coffee ground trap.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2017
at 19:30
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pint on tap at Three Crowns, North Melbourne. Clear pale amber beer with thin white head. Very light carbonation. Nose is sweet and grainy. Full body, light fizz. Taste and finish is sweet with late sourness. Drinkable but missing a lot of the graininess I would expect to find in a Pils.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2017
at 07:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint on tap at Three Crowns in North Melbourne. Amber beer with white head. Fulsome carbonation. Nose of dough and berries. Full body, viscous texture. Taste is berries, finish is dry with pithiness. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Aug 2017
at 10:01
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours gold with a large lasting head.Nose shows spicy and herbal hops as well and a cardboard-like malt note and soft banana.Flavours include more banana bready notes, soft brown sugar, a bit of bready malt, light spicy hops.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2017
at 06:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle, 7% ABV. Dark brown with a pale beige head. Aroma has roast, molasses and licorice some way underneath rather soapy citrus and some spices. Just about medium bodied, quite fizzy. Taste follows the aroma - the hops dominate and are somewhat soapy, and the citrus is too much anyway. Some menthol. Not a blend for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2017
at 08:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
It’s categorised as a fruit beer on rate beer, but when opening the bottle, expect a slightly peach flavoured pale ale. The aromas are peach, lemon, biscuit and honey and the taste is much more lemony with the peach coming through late across the roof of my mouth. It could do with more malt structure and the aftertaste is very warm as if it’s more alcoholic than it is. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2017
at 03:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours dark amber with a large head.Nose shows very heavy malt, bready notes, soft pine and resinous hops.Flavours include more sweet malt buy the truckload. Some piny and spicy hops in the background.Exceedingly malty.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2017
at 05:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Pours amber, large head.Nose shows tangerine, peach, apricot, pear, pineapple and lychee along with fruit confectionery notes, but then fades quickly to softer pine and grassy hops.Flavours include pine, grapefruit, spicy and herbal hops, and a non-descript malt sweetness.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2017
at 05:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Black with a wisp of tan head. Aroma of good bittersweet chocolate ( the sort where the sugars are a bit singed), moderate roast, some dark rum (an Australian stout thing for some reason), slight earthiness (seems to be a Cavalier thing and I don’t love it). Barely medium bodied, lowish carbonation. The aroma suggested bittersweet chocolate but there’s not much sweetness - bitter chocolate, roasted flavours that are really only supporting, a finish that dries out even further and is quite bitter. This is an elegant and intense chocolate stout and my favourite Cavalier beer since the first and fabulous batch of their hefeweizen. 7384 16
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2017
at 09:29