Review based on the BJCP2015 guidelines (style 12C). Bottle 33 cl - Batch unknown. AROMA: moderate hop aroma with citrus notes. background of an almost neutral slightly sweet malty background. APPEARANCE: golden ambar color and hazy. medium light ivory head with moderate persistance. TASTE: similar to the aroma with moderate hop flavor (citric, some pine, slightly grassy). medium-low to low malt background, slightly sweet and a faint toffee note. medium-high bitterness that endures after an almost dry finish. PALATE: medium-light body and slight creamy. medium carbonation. OVERALL: an average IPA.

33cl bottle. Pours clear deep copper colour with a mid-sized good lasting off-white head. Aroma of citrons, red malt. Taste of dry citrus hops, nuts, caramel, red malt, okay!

33cl bottle. Pours clear dark golden colour with a mid-sized most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of intense bitter hops, citrus, apricote. Taste of mild bitter metallic hops, citrus, apricot.

Bottle. Amber color with small white head. Aroma is piney hops, forestfloor, toffee, caramel. Taste is piney, caramel, hints of butter and old hops (won’t blame that on the beer, after all it’s from the other side of the world. Bittersweet finish. Quite full-bodied for just 5.8%. Not bad.

Many thanks for this Australian IPA to kevnic2008. 33cl from Saveur-Biere (Lille,France). Niewielka piana ale spora metnosc koloru silnej pomarańczy. Zapach dość ostry chmielowo-zywiczny to za sprawa chyba chmielu Nelson Sauvin. Pomarancze, grejfruty i sosna. Sapach cytrusowy z przewaga czerwonych pomarańczy i ananasa. Lekko slodowe i wyraźnie zakończone wytrawnym i zywicznym posmakiem. Niezbyt czeste IPA jakie testuje, bardzo mile zaskoczenie. Polecam

Blumig hopfiger Geruch, Zitrus, leichte Malzaromen. Im Antrunk harmonisch hopfig-herb-bitter, dabei minimal trocken. Die Aromenzusammensetzung bleibt prinzipiell gleich, später steigt die Herbe, Malznoten kommen auf. Süffig, rund, erfrischend. 10/11/12/11/10/11

OK, but are we going hawthorn silly. Mild hops for an IPA, is that’s why it’s an Australian IPA?

30th January 2016
Pretty hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light, mildly dry and has a good fine crispness. Light malts, mildly sweet and carrying a modest tangy caramel. Hops are light and floral citric. Tangy orange in to aniseed and hop spice. Underneath - a mild tropical fruit vibe. Light finish. Bitterish floral linger. Not a sumptuously hopped IPA but plenty going on.

Bottle from Terre de Boissons Calais and drunk at home. Clear brown beer lasting beige head. Toffee aroma. Some decent malts. Not much hop. OK, if a little underdemanding.

Australian IPA and advertised as such, made with Australian hops, though the label fails to mention which ones. Front label is as cliché as possible for the style, referring to the old English IPA legends of long boat travels to India. Medium thick and dissipating, but otherwise quite stable, moussy, irregular, off-white head over a lightly hazy warm orange blonde beer with almost no visible fizz. Dank American style IPA aroma, but somehow different, with notes of pine needles and spruce, dried tomato, grapefruit peel, warm toast, roasted peanuts, bread crust, fresh grass, hemp, dried seaweed, papaja, cigarette tobacco, chicken spice mix. Clean, crisp onset, subdued hints of tropical fruit (papaja, pineapple), vaguely sweet with a restrained redcurrant sourish edge, very faint touch of saltiness but undisturbingly so, softish carbo with a lean, supple, slick mouthfeel. Toasted and lightly nutty malts provide good balance against a growing hop character towards the finish, but the hops execute only a mild, gentle, leafy bittering power, which is still sufficient to balance with the malts. This beer’s strength lies in its Australian hop aromas, fragrant as they are, coming back retronasally with lovely but gently piney, grapefruity and floral impressions. A juicy, lightly toasted malt sweetness keeps accompanying the aromatic hops with their gentle bitterness after swallowing, while a very lightly salty accent remains as well. Quite delicate little IPA in fact, not overpowering but still with a rich, dank, piney aroma interesting enough to capture your attention for the whole duration of the bottle. I liked it very much, glad I managed to find a sufficiently fresh bottle in spite of it coming from literally the other side of the world. If I’d live in Victoria, I could easily drink this all day. It is very nice to see that the craft beer movement has really come off the ground Down Under since pioneer Matilda Bay was taken over by SAB Miller.