hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Big Red Rocket from Bridge Road Brewers 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at GABS. Reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma is really grapey. Sweet caramel underneath lots of white fortified, a of bit herbal bitterness at the end. Some spirit notes. Barrel ate the beer with this one. Not that flash.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Bling IPA from Bridge Road Brewers 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From a 330ml bottle on 6/2/2011. Pours a cloudy dark orange. Has a moderate hoppy aroma, with some pine and citrus fruit. In the mouth, there’s some more sweet fruit and toffee, with medium though quite long hop kick. Has a very creamy body. A decent crack at an IPA, though not in the same class as Jamieson’s Beast, Feral’s Hop Hog, or a raft of excellent American IPAs.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From the tap at the Local Taphouse, St Kilda on 27/1/2011 (part of a five beer tasting paddle). The aroma is of Belgian yeast, apples and apple pie. The flavour is dominated by green apples and lemon. This one has a nice subtle and refreshing sour/bitterness. Quite nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Very murky light orange with a coat of white head. Aroma of ripe and under-ripe quinces, pears, vanilla, pepper, fenugreek. Tastes really quite tart up front with some pear-like sweetness and spices. After the mouthful of fruit the taste falls away to just lingering spices. A little too much fruit for the beer, I think - the intial tartness of the quinces is too much for what comes after. But it’s refreshing and a very good soft cheese beer. Pretty bold stuff from an Australian brewer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Apparently this is brewed with elderflowers and blueberries. Bottle. Cloudy amber with a rapidly fading white head. Aroma is floral and yeasty with pears and cloves. There’s light dough and a little funk. Quite tart and spicy before light fruity sweetness with pears and just a hint of berries. Zesty and spicy drying finish with white pepper and cloves. Some hints of blueberry skin there too. Very refreshing brew where the additions are slight accents to the normal saison. Only adding it as a fruit beer because that seems to be the done thing.
Davros (5279) reviewed Chestnut Pilsner from Bridge Road Brewers 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours pale yellow with a small head.Nose shows grassy, lemony hops and definite chestnut, along with some metallic malt. The grassy character is a bit strong.Similar flavours, lots more lemon and nutty notes. Grainy malt still remains unfortunately.Carbonation is moderately high, goes well with the light flavours.
Earlier Rating: 7/24/2009 Total Score: 3
Golden pour with a good-sized head, pity it didn’t last.Quite a grassy aroma, with some sweet toasty malt and interesting nutty characteristics. Chestnut aroma can definitely be found if you know what to look for.Flavours are not as interesting, chestnut characteristics are hardly noticeable. Very crisp and dry (very pale-lagerish). Some lemony hops and satisfactory but boring malt.Carbonation is too sharp and prickly.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed B2 Bomber from Bridge Road Brewers 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 10C. Black with a towering tan head. Aroma of chocolate, toast, nectarines, meadows, coffee. Taste has a hoppy bitter initial bite before roasted flavours poke through with chocolate and some stewed and stone fruits. Astringent coffee finish has some pine. Bitterness lingers. That sounds (to me) like a horrible mess, but it works pretty well:- it’s quite light and the disparate flavours are well-balanced. The price is a lack of depth in the roasted and fruit flavours making it less than fully mouth-filling. I guess that’s very good in a style I’m not convinced I need.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to Baggio. Murky dark brown with a few bubbles. Aroma of honey and bread. Fruity flavor with lots of honey, oranges, bread, a bit of alcohol. Dirty hop finish with mild bitterness. Light body. Interesting and very drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours hazy dark coppery brown. Very small head. Somehow elegant though.Nose shows lots of honey with hints of gum tree blossom and some underlying soft alcohol and grainy malt. Definitely centred towards the honey rather than the malt.Very bold boozy flavours, still quite a lot of sweet honey mixing with cinnamon before the alcohol and mild hops bitterness roll though, blasting everything else. Definitely one fore sipping.Mouthfeel is light but velvety smooth (thanks to the alcohol?). Very low carbonation.I think I’d like more malt, it seems to drop short after the initial burst of honey.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Hefeweizen from Bridge Road Brewers 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Hazy orangey amber with a very modest white head. Lemony aroma with tart apples and a little wheaty bread. Watery - no liquid bread here. Taste has some apples and pears and lemony sourness. Nothing much in the way of banana or spices, although there’s a little white pepper. Odd, but refreshing. [2.5] Tap. Hazy orange amber, white head. Aroma has lots of banana, some vanilla and cloves. Quite bready with vanilla, slight lemony tartness, cloves. Completely different and much better, but this time too much banana for me.