7.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Weak pink body, great yeasty cherry aroma, really great. Taste is Great yeasty cherry, deep, funky, dry finish. Excellent.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2022
at 22:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Muddy coffee a little sweetness on the nose. Nice honey and coffee, mocha notes. Smooth and dry, pretty good.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2022
at 22:20
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Muddy purple body, okay blueberry aroma. Tastes of Tart blueberry, weak pastry notes and ends watery. Mediocre.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2022
at 22:14
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
Odd flower aroma, a bit of gin too. Taste is more gin with a cloying finish. Odd, and not appealing.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2022
at 22:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at The Bakery, pours a hazy bright pinkish red with almost no head. Aroma brings out a strange mix of wine and bourbon barrels, some muddled bugginess and tart cherries. Flavour is tart and fruity, with plenty of tart cherries, lots of bugs, and a touch of vinous notes. I don't get the bourbon, just the cherries, bugs and wine. Integrated nicely with reasonable depth. Good ambition, reasonable execution.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2022
at 20:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at The Bakery, pours a cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out pithy stone fruits, some hop oils, and light earthiness. Flavour is rather muddled, with an earthy, resinous hop character and some pithy stone fruits. Not getting any classic NZ hop character. Pretty messy and lacking any sort of pronounced hop expression. Fairly weak.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2022
at 20:38
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at The Bakery, pours a hazy golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out plenty of elderflower, botanical notes and saline. Flavour is rather herbal, with elderflower, herbaceous notes and a hint of rustic notes. Not really any complexity and the adjuncts don't work well. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2022
at 20:35
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at The Bakery, pours a cloudy peachy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of cocktail notes, with hibiscus, grapefruit and salt, with a touch of lacto. Flavour is extremely salty, with tons of hibiscus and grapefruit. The salt is overbearing — way too much saline — which drowns out the rest of the adjuncts. Messy and uncoordinated.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2022
at 20:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at The Bakery, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out a very herbaceous character, not very authentic — there's maybe some crunchy grassiness but it comes across somewhat cabbage-y. Flavour is much the same, with herbaceous notes, light grassiness, and some celery. Too herbaceous without enough grassy hopping or crispness. Not too convincing but not terrible.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2022
at 20:30
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Weak light gold body and little foam. Aroma is soft sweet grain, maybe creamy. Taste is sweet honey, a bit of cracker, ends smooth but wet. Soft, okay, good enough and that's it.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2022
at 23:15