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
Malt Shovel Brewery owns 5 breweries:
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.

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6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
24/10/2022. Draught at The Squire’s Landing (James Squire Brewhouse), The Rocks, Sydney. Pours very dark brown with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, liquorice, molasses, black treacle. Moderate sweetness and bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. Solid but unspectacular.
Tried on 24 Oct 2022 at 12:06

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
24/10/2022. Draught at The Squire’s Landing (James Squire Brewhouse), The Rocks, Sydney. Pours hazy golden orange with a small frothy white head. Aroma is light, tropical, melon, passion fruit, grass. Medium sweetness and moderate bitterness. Moderate body, watery, average carbonation. Not bad.
Tried on 24 Oct 2022 at 09:20

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
345ml bottle from National Brewery Centre, Burton on Trent. Golden colour, white foam head and aroma of tropical fruits. Taste is sweet, malty, grainy, with some tropical fruit notes and light hoppy bitterness. Light bodied, soft carbonation, drying finish. Quite OK
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2022 at 19:37

4.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
330ml bottle from National Brewery Centre, Burton on Trent. Misty golden amber appearance, loose white bubbly head. Light caramel wort-like nose. Respectable caramel malt flavour for an AF, moderately thin body light hop bitterness. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2022 at 17:22

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Don't really know what 'Freedom day' is.....but FREE BEER! Schooner on tap at Glen Innes Services Club. Pours a golden amber with a thin white head of foam. High fine carbonation. Nose is sweet caramel malt with a slight grassy note. Initial taste is dry and sharply bitter, surprising. There's touches of overripe fruit too (Passionfruit? Guava?). Finish is lingering sweet with some vegetal undertones. Bit of a throwback to pre-craft ales. Interesting but not great, too cloying to be sessionable. Even though it was free, I could only manage two.
Tried from Draft on 11 Nov 2021 at 11:19

6.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Voici une Golden Ale qui propose le minimum requis et globalement agréable. Bière sans prétention toutefois qui présente une belle robe blond doré foncé, quasi ambré, limpide, mais avec une mousse peu évidente. Au nez, c'est un trio miel, abricot et céréales qui se distingue. Heureusement que le miel est tout de même là pour réhausser l'ensemble. En bouche, l'impression est la même. Après une attaque sur la fraîcheur, avec un houblon sympathique, la deuxième bouche est plus riche et corpulente, reprenant le cocktail du nez. Même l'alcool, à 4,5 % commence à nous plaire. Mais cela est de courte période avec une arrière bouche est un final plus insipide, sans trop de consistance, sur des arômes peu intenses de malts. The Chancer n'est pas des plus chanceux !
Tried on 02 Jun 2021 at 08:30

7/10
Die Australier haben hier ein sehr süffiges, leichtes Pale Ale gebraut. Kaum Hopfen, gutes Sommerbier. In 3-4 Schlücken weg.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jun 2021 at 18:03

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Hazy pale golden color with white head. Aroma is dusty malts, mildly zezty, bready. Taste is again bready and zezty, refreshingly bitter. Not bad, but not great either.
Tried from Bottle on 21 May 2021 at 15:06

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pint on tap at The Charming Squire, Brisbane. Black as sin with a thin white head. Nose is cocoa and coffee with a hint of milk chocolate. Smooth texture with a slight fizz. Flavour is like chocolate coated fruit. Finish is dry and abrupt. Served very cold, the flavour profile does not suggest lamington. There is a very faint suggestion of coconut but that's all it is. Beautiful porter though, as it warms more 'lamington' character appears.
Tried from Draft on 04 Mar 2021 at 12:08

6.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Ambrée aux arômes peu folichons, cette Nine Tales Amber Ale a au moins un minimum de présence en bouche pour un alcool de 5 %, sans trop de sucre, et avec un relativement bon équilibre malt/houblon. Le visuel est sur un ambré limpide avec une fine mousse beige nappant la surface. Le nez est plutôt insipide sur le caramel et le candy. L'attaque est sur une légère amertume (IBU de 20) donnant de la fraîcheur mais sur des arômes de caramel d'une platitude affolante. La deuxième bouche est un peu plus maltée...sans grande émotion. L'arrière bouche est semblable à l'attaque, permettant un minimum de contraste. La corpulence est honnête, cout comme la longueur, mais qui ne nous confère pas davantage d'émotion. Au moins la structure est là...
Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2021 at 08:17