SimonF (3322) reviewed Pacific Ale from Stone & Wood Brewing Co 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Poured hazy pale straw with decent white head. Pleasant tangy lemony fruity aroma. Light body with fizzy frothy carbonation. Tangy lemony fruity taste with a slight light malt and hint of hop finish. Overall unusual, but it works in a refreshing light sort of way. Previous review was a bottle (20/08/10). Had this on draft 07/11/12 and aroma had more tropical fruit than I mentioned in this review. Still go with the same rating.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Green Coast from Stone & Wood Brewing Co 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Clear pale straw colour with decent white head. Vegetably hop aroma. Light body and fizzy. Tangy lemony start, followed by slightly sweet maltiness with a slightly bitter finish that is unpleasantly harsh. Mostly bland, but the flavour that is there is poor. Overall bland, unimpressive, but ultimately drinkable.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Pacific Ale from Stone & Wood Brewing Co 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a 330ml bottle on 7/8/2010. As noted by others, pours golden and cloudy much like a wit. Has a massive floral, fruity aroma, with passionfruit notes particularly prominent. In the mouth, you get a honeyed sweetness, quite strong citrus flavours, a modest bitterness, and slightly excessive carbonation. Quite unusual, definitely drinkable, while not being remarkable. Rating 3.3.
Re-rate: From the tap at the Local Taphouse, St Kilda on 27/1/2011 (part of a five beer tasting paddle). Note that this was labelled ’Draft Ale’ rather than ’ Pacific Ale’. Some pineapple on the nose in addition to the passionfruit. Caronation was more in check this time. Happy to up the rating to 3.5.
Re-rate from a 330ml bottle on 4/10/2017. Retried after a long period and the experience was pretty underwhelming. Both the nose and flavour is pretty bland, and certainly lacking some of the character evident in previous tries. This is one of those beers that seems to taste quite a bit better on tap.
Davros (5279) reviewed Pacific Ale from Stone & Wood Brewing Co 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours gold with a large lasting head.Nose shows loads of orange blossom, lemon, kiwi fruit and passion fruit with subtle sweet clean malt underneath. Reminds me of pavlova for some reason.Similarly fruity flavours but the malt is more noticeable with sweet cookie-dough characters.Carbonation is a little too high.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Looks like a Wit: hazy pale yellow with a quivering dome of a white head. High bead. Smells of passionfruit, nectarines, lemon pudding with a hint of cloves.. Rather watery and quite fizzy. Taste is sweet and yeasty with a little citric sourness. Some drying bitterness at the end. I don’t know how this got classified as an APA - it’s somewhere between a golden ale and a wit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, pours amber with an inch of dense beige head that’s well-retained. Straightforward and fresh nose has caramel and chocolate malt and some grass. Taste is sweet and malty with chocolate, caramel and nuts. Oddly metallic finish. Quite dunkelish. Not exciting, but balanced and pretty tasty.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Yellow with a small white head. Caramel and cereal malt nose with some hints of hops. Medium ongoing carbonation. Fairly sweet and thin. Hardly and bitterness. Sweet and somewhat metallic finish. Just another pale lager.
Davros (5279) reviewed Stone Beer 2011 from Stone & Wood Brewing Co 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Aroma is very malty, like a bock, with caramel and what seems to be melanoidin malt. Little else, just some soft alcohol.Flavours are similarly malty, with more creamy caramel and melanoidin malt, finishing with a weak bitterness.Carbonation is very powerful, but at least it goes someway to dry out the finish.