Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a 330ml bottle on 16/11/2011. Pours a dark orange with a good head. Smells like a damp basement withe some slight fruity notes. Flavour wise, it’s mainly sweet citrus fruit (orange and mandarin) with a dash of hop bitterness. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From a 330ml bottle on 2/5/2011. Pours a light golden with a decent head. The aroma mainly grass and hay, with a tiny touch of yeast. Flavour wise, you get a bit of bready malt and a nice grassy citrus hop finish. Quite a nice pilsener.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a 330ml bottle on 9/8/2010. Has quite a strong aroma of coffee, brown sugar and a touch of sea water (I guess mussels smell of sea water). Tastes of roasted malt and liquorice, and has a sharp, lingering salty finish. An okay stout, but not particularly complex or special.
Davros (5303) reviewed Mussel Stout from Bellarine Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours black with ruby highlights and a large lasting head.Nose shows a fair bit of cocoa and plenty of roasted coffee. Pretty hard to find any evidence of the mussels.Coffee transfers through as a flavour exceptionally well, mixing with some dark chocolate. Once again, it’s hard to find what effect the mussels have.Carbonation is a bit too high in my opinion.
Davros (5303) reviewed Blonde from Bellarine Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
Pours gold with a quickly fading head.Aroma is very grassy with grainy malt in the background. Not good!Flavours are the same with the addition of some metallic hints which continue through the mild finish.Body is stupidly water and unsurprisingly the carbonation is pretty high.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Pours pale gold with a small suddy head.Nose mostly shows grassy and floral Euro hops. Not much in the way of wheat, but at least some of the honey shows through.Same with the flavours unfortunately: grainy malt, grassy hops and a mild metallic bitterness with just a hint of honey.Light body and too much carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Pours gold with a small head.Nose is clean but shows a fair bit of sweet malt with bready hints showing later. There’s a hint of floral spicy hops but they’re pretty muted.Flavours are pretty much the same, lots of sweet malt with hardly any hops to restrain it. Not bad but not what I was expecting.too much carbonation (although it does well to cut the sweetness). Very light body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Black, an inch of tan head fades quickly. Roasted/ burnt malt smell with licorice and very clear brine aroma. Sweet with burnt and salt flavours. Finish is dry. Very much like a standard Australian foreign stout with seafood/ brine character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
From a 330ml bottle on 16/1/2010. Described as a honey wheat ale, there is far more evidence of the former than the latter. Honeyed sweetness is the predominating feature, with perhaps just a hint of the wheat, and a very mild bitter, citrus finish. This is actually quite refreshing drop, and suited to a hot summer’s day. A bit better than some others here have suggested.
JK (8171) reviewed Mussel Stout from Bellarine Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Courtesy of STLWill. Black color. Some seafood in the aroma, salt. Roasted character and lightly smoked. The shellfish flavor is light, but it is there. Some oatmeal. Thanks to Will for sharing this rare beer.