Subsidiaries
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pint on tap at Basement Brewhouse, Bankstown. Golden amber beer with thin white head. Light carbonation, sweet sweet nose, almost butterscotch. Good body, smooth texture. Lovely toffee notes in this one. Lingering sweet finish has just enough background sourness to balance. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jan 2019
at 08:33
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft. A golden beer with a lazing white head. The aroma has notes of straw and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, straw, and hops, leading to a bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Dec 2018
at 03:08
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 345ml bottle on 1/9/2018. Pours a very deep golden (light amber really) with a biggish head. Has a distinct and quite pleasant light fruity aroma. Actually rather tasty with a big dash of biscuity malt with a dash of caramel, lots of fruitness, and some moderate hoppy bitterness at the back. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. The Hop Thief series has always been one of better beers in the Squire range (the quality of which is admittedly modest) but this, in my view, is a cut above the recent iterations I've tried (I seemed to have missed number 8). A genuinely good APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2018
at 06:40
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pint on tap at Squire's Landing, Sydney. Dark mahogany colour with thin white head. Faint aniseed nose. Good body, nice lacing. Slightly effervescent with a pleasant bitterness. Finish is liquorice, Band-Aids, quinine. Chocolate and cocoa become more prominent as it warms. Interesting experimental ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2018
at 04:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint on tap at Squires Landing, Sydney. Crystal clear golden amber beer with thin white head. Aromas of distant malt and light fruit ( lemon, guava, pineapple). Medium carbonation, good lacing. Effervescent with a good body. Taste is bitter at first then a little supporting malt. Lingering finish of bitter lemon, mint, and aspirin. A return to form of sorts. Better than Hop Thief 8 but not as good as Hop Thief 7.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jul 2018
at 08:34
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber wit a small off white head. Toasty aroma with citrus blossoms, slightly earthy. A little empty with caramel and very meek bready malt. But it's not too sweet and although the bitterness and hop aromatics are tentative, they have room to peek through at the end. I really didn't like Hop Thief 8 but this is back to the standard of 6 and 7.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2018
at 13:23
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pint on tap at Basement Brewhouse, Bankstown. Amber beer with thin creamy white head. Light carbonation. Looks like an old-fashioned pint. Sweet malty nose. Some lacing, light easy-drinking style. Slightly bitter with a sherbet sweet finish and late smoky malt. Good for a quick pint.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 May 2018
at 05:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Thanks to Jan for bringing the bottle from Australia!
Pours clear golden with a small, foamy, white head; little lacing. The aroma contains barley, bread, rye, citrus, (over)ripe mango, honey or beeswax. It tastes light fruity sweet and light to medium grainy bitter, bready malt and honey in the back. Dry, grainy finish, bit citrussy. Light to medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Lacking some of the refinement of a 21st century APA, yet quenching.
Pours clear golden with a small, foamy, white head; little lacing. The aroma contains barley, bread, rye, citrus, (over)ripe mango, honey or beeswax. It tastes light fruity sweet and light to medium grainy bitter, bready malt and honey in the back. Dry, grainy finish, bit citrussy. Light to medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Lacking some of the refinement of a 21st century APA, yet quenching.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2018
at 08:42
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
So....no new Hop Thief from James Squire in 2017 but a new Hop Father in 2018. Perhaps a replacement (or a very small R&D unit!). 345ml bottle into schooner glass. Gusher from becoming too cold in my crappy fridge, anyway...It's a golden amber beer with a thin white head. Some tiny lazy bubbles make a break for freedom. Laces OK. Nice aroma of caramel and tart fruit. Light body. Finish is more caramel malt and touches of earthy woody hops. I remember last year's Hop Father being really good this one...bit boring. Not horrible, certainly easy-drinking but a bit beige.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2018
at 11:40
6/10
Tried
on 11 Feb 2018
at 08:48