7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Pours clear bright gold orange. Peach, lavender, caramel, biscuit, hay, honey, orange. Good oily body. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2018
at 11:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Smiths Queenstown. Clear reddish amber with light beige head. Light toasty malts, soft resin, woody, light spruce, caramel, toast, soft grassy and herbal. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with crisp and oily feel. OK but closer to red ale than IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Aug 2018
at 06:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can@Jens - Golden pour with small white head. Sweet fruity and malty with some notes of citrus fruit, some light vanilla accents, light to medium body, fruity and hoppy finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Smooth Operator Cream Ale on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:50 - Score: 7
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2018
at 15:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. A golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, hops, and straw. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, hops, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2018
at 15:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml can. Pours bright orange. Vanilla (nose nothing else), cereal, corn flakes, honey, sweet. Real cereal and milk thing going on. Not a bad beer, certainly a good way to improve a cream ale.
Tried
from Can
on 04 May 2018
at 05:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A dark golden beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of hops, citrus fruit, caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, spices, citrus fruits, malt, and caramel, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2018
at 09:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Taster at GABS Auckland 2017. Pours black. Coffee, vanilla, cacao, plum jam, little creaminess. Nice.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2017
at 20:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster at GABS Auckland 2017. Pours gold. Mango, papaya, little sherbet, biscuit. Average.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2017
at 20:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Taster at GABS Auckland 2017. Pours red brown. Caramel, cherry, biscuit. Nice bitter sweet balance. Fine.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2017
at 03:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml can (was overfilled so a touch explosive). Pours a bright orange brown with good head. Grapefruit, pine resin, bit dank, some bitter orange peel. Aggressively hopped, pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2017
at 21:18