Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
(bottle) Clear dark mahogany, no head. Little aroma - hint of toffee maybe. Medium body and carbonation. Flavour rather thin - a bit roasty, a bit coffee and dark chocoolate. Falls flat at the end with no bitterness or persistence. Overall, drinkable and rather unusual, but disappointing. Very one-dimensional - all about a small set of core flavours, but with nothing to support them or round it out.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Clear light brown with an small beige head that fades to nothing. Aroma of caramel, chocolate, nuts and grass. Sweetish with some nuts, coffee and chocolate, good balancing bitterness. Not really my sort of thing, but pleasant enough.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Clear gold with a small white head that fades fast. Aroma of oranges, light tropical fruit, caramel. Rather sweet and quite fruity with bitterness that build to just about balancing.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Ginger Beer from Matso's Broome Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
(bottle) Cloudy very pale amber / ginger (rather like ginger beer of the soda variety) with no head. The aroma is intense ginger and quite pleasant: didn’t seem artificial and had some earthy / ginseng notes to it. The palate was just like a fizzy soda. The flavour was dominated by acidity; not an acidity with a strong flavour (such as lemons) but causing discomfort under the tongue and in the back of the nose. The ginger taste is also pretty intense. It wasn’t too sweet like many ginger beers of this style. However, overall, even though I am a fan of ginger beers, I would have to say this was not very nice. It is too full on and lacks finesse and balance. On the positive side it isn’t just a fizzy sugar-water alcopop - they have made an interesting, different, intense and challenging drink. (I wonder whether this is actually a beer brewed from malted grain.)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours deep garnet with a large lasting head and rings of lacing.Nose shows lots of sweet malt with nutty and caramel characters at the forefront. Roasted malt adds some extra depth. There’s a faint oxidised not which mixes well with the rich malt.Flavours perfectly mirror the aromas. Maybe the roasted malt shows through a little stronger.Carbonation is pretty full on.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Golden-brown colour. Vanilla nose with caramel notes. Slightly smokey, toffeeish, tea-like. Fairly thin body with a finish that gets grainy and metallic late.