Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
From a 375ml can on 16/8/2025. Pours a lightly hazy, dirty golden, with barely any head. The nose is citrussy, grassy and herbal. On the sip there's lots of lemon and lime, with more than a hint of passionfruit and white grape. Has a distinct, lightly sour, spicy, tangy finish, rendering it quite atypical for the style. Medium body with average carbonation. Perhaps not a home run, but really distinctive and rather interesting.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
From a 375ml can on 17/6/2025. Pours a deep brown cola colour with the barest of heads. Has a strong and very pleasant choc orange nose. Tastes of choc orange too - moderately sweet with nice firmish, balancing, lingering bitterness featuring citrus zest, and a touch of licorice. Medium bodied with moderate to average carbonation. There's heaps going on here. Impressive.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From a 355ml can on 23/7/2024. Pours a hazy golden with a medium head. The nose features quite a bit of citrus with some rind and spicy notes. Tastes strongly of orange, tangerine and grapefruit, with lots of pithy rind in a firmly bitter, lightly spicy, long, fairly dry finish. Silky mouthfeel with average carbonation. Really bold, well balanced and unusual. Terrific stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From a 375ml can on 23/6/2024. Pours a clear deep amber with a smallish head. The nose features light pine and roasty notes. Tastes of roasted and burnt malt, dark chocolate, with a little nuttiness. Firmly bitter, with lots of pine and resin coming at the back in a lingering finish. Medium body with average carbonation. A solid black IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From a 375ml can on 4/6/2024. Pours a clear medium golden with a smallish that disappears quickly. The nose features citrus fruit and lemon. Tastes strongly of orange, lemon and lime, with a hint of granny smith apple, leading into a massive citrus/pine/resin bitterness that coats the mouth and lingers. Full bodied and syrupy with moderate carbonation. You can appreciate the size but goes down quite easily. A really good, big WC style IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From a 375ml can on 12/3/2024 (described on can as Key Lime Pie - Tart IPA, ABV listed as 6.6%). Pours and ultra clear deep golden with virtually no head. The aroma is primarily zesty lime with a hint of fresh pastry. The taste is, not surprisingly, lime focused - moderately tart with just a hint of sour, with a lingering tangy finish. Medium bodied with average to lively carbonation. Not necessarily my kind of thing, but it's quite nicely done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pinty on tap at The Grainstore, Newcastle. Golden beer, red tinge, with a foamy white head. High fine carbonation. Nose is fruit and grain. Fruit bread? Taste is fruity and refreshing. Good body. Nice lingering berry aftertaste. Fun beer, very pleasant drinking.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From a 375ml can on 24/5/2023. Pours a deep slightly opaque golden will very little in the way of head. Has a light citrus and ripe fruit aroma. Tastes sharply of the promised blodd orange with a nice citrus rind bitterness. Silky mouthfeel with average carbonation. Dainton's Blood Orange has long been my regular go to craftie quaffer, and I haven't encountered many others of this ilk. But this is really good. Will definitely get some more.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pint on tap at Welder's Dog, Armidale. Pours dense and cloudy with a thin head. Looks like creek water. Slight orange aroma. Good body, smooth texture. Taste is mild orange followed by aspirin bitterness and late orange rind. Not for the faint-hearted but a nice drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
375ml can into pint glass. From Beer Cartel. Slightly chilled. Pours a clear copper colour with a large white head of sudsy foam. High carbonation, tiny streams of bubbles. Patchy lacing. Nose is toffee, burnt caramel, maybe a touch of stewed apple. Slight zing, toffee flavour at first. Finish is herbal and tannic. Possibly too bitter for an ESB but nice enough.