Malt Shovel Brewery
Client Brewer
in
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia 🇦🇺
Owned by
Lion Australia
Established in 1993
Contact
99 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown, Sydney, 2050, Australia
Subsidiaries
Description
Independent brewer Chuck Hahn first opened the Malt Shovel Brewery in 1988 before it was acquired by Lion in 1993 with the brewery playing what has been cited as “pivotal role” in Australia’s craft beer movement.
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
345ml bottle into schooner glass. Clear shiny copper colour, frothy white head. Medium carbonation.Laces well. Nose is mildly smoky caramel malt with just a hint of fruit in the background. Full bodied with a smooth easy-drinking texture. The smoky caramel malt continues into a slightly bitter fruity finish. Nothing outrageous but well-balanced and certainly easy-drinking. Think I’ll have another.....
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2017
at 01:05
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster at Beer Deluxe, Sydney. Clear golden beer with thin white head and good lacing. Sweet malt nose. Much sweeter than the original at first, nice hop finish. Not bad.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2017
at 00:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Bright mid amber with a stark white head that lasts quite well. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, citrus flowers, pine, sticky bread crusts. Some boiled fruit. Quite full bodied for 5%, moderate carbonation. Moderate sweetness is rather plain and caramelly but solid. Fruit, pine and a fair bit of pepper combine with quite strong bitterness at the end. Clean, gutsy and bitter. Probably their best beer since the Ten20.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2017
at 05:34
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
On tap at Treasury Casino, Brisbane. Cloudy pale green with no head but highly carbonated. Really faint fruit/vinegar nose. Highly effervescent in the mouth. Finish is umami and sherbet. Sweet fizzy fruit thing. No obvious pear flavour.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Dec 2016
at 08:06
8/10
Tried
on 10 Nov 2016
at 08:28
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
CAN 33 CL. Hazy golden, white head. Barely any aroma, just a hint of canned fruit. Dry husky corny malts, with bit of corn syrup sugars behind and a lot of carbonic acid on top. Nasty.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Nov 2016
at 16:34
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
[backlog] 29-01-15 // bottle in Orbost, Australia. Orange golden colour. Malty, light bitter hop aroma. Weak IPA. English style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2016
at 04:49
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Clear gold with a white head that lasts OK. Interesting plant nursery aroma - floral aromas, some citrus but also soil. Only a little sweet with cereal, some apricot and those weird hop aromatics. Moderate bitterness. Finish of mulch. What a strange beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2016
at 07:19
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
[backlog] 29-01-15 / bottlein Orbost, Australia. light bodied bitter. I started rating my beers with Untappd and a few basic notes. Now I want to rate them on ratebeer. So my rating sometimes lack some information. Just ignore it, it is for my personal statistics. Untappd-Rating 2.5/5
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2016
at 06:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
345ml bottle into schooner glass. Golden amber colour with solid white head, medium carbonation. Earthy spicy hop nose. Full bodied, oily texture. Initial floral bitterness gives way to a spicy funky earthy finish that lingers. Malt is present throughout. Interesting and full of flavour though perhaps not as sessionable as the last couple of ’Hop Thief’s’.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2016
at 10:59