5/11/2022. Draught at The Hero of Waterloo, The Rocks, Sydney. Pours pale golden amber with a small frothy white head. Drinkable sat outside in glorious sunshine, though it's pretty uninspiring stuff really.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 !

Die Australier haben hier ein sehr süffiges, leichtes Pale Ale gebraut. Kaum Hopfen, gutes Sommerbier. In 3-4 Schlücken weg.

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.

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.