2.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
345ml bottle into schooner glass. Lemony aroma. Pours amber full of bubbles. No head at all. Zero. Tastes weird. Little bit of sherbet? Aftertaste is standard bitter followed by lavender or musk or something. Strange beer. I’ve never had a kolsch that tastes like this. Bewildering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2015
at 22:51
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
cooked vegetables, lightly sour, pale, thin feel, average carbonation. A cheap ’supermarket’ beer. Looks/ tastes like VB & co. but MUCH cheaper. Used to be a craft brewer label now owned by Woolworths.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2014
at 01:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle) Clear deep reddish amber with decent tight off-white head. Nice aroma, mainly citrus with slight hints of pine and biscuit. Medium body with good carbonation. Great taste, than transforms significantly sweet toffee start to a nice bitter finish. The start has a fair amount of complexity with citrus, candy and cough medicine notes. This mellows nicely and then a good hoppy bitterness steadily grows for a nice sustained bitter finish. Generally I am not a fan of this style of beer, but was pleasantly surprised by this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2014
at 05:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 640ml bottle on 22/4/2014. Pours a clear amber with a falrly big head. The aroma features a touch of light fruit and sweet malt. Taste wise, it’s more substantial, with sweet biscuity and caramel malt, raisins, tangerines, figs and just a hint of cherry, followed by some pretty firm hops. The palate tends towards creamy and the carbonation is average. All up, a pretty good amber ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2014
at 03:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
From a 640 ml bottle shared in Sydney. Pours a clear dark cola with a thin tan head. Aroma of coffee and chocolate. Notes of tobacco and licorice. Medium heavy bodied, low carbonation, bitter roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2014
at 01:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 10C. Clear amber with an off white head that never disappears. Aroma is a little earthy with toffee, some chocolate, plums, oranges. Full bodied, moderate carbonation. Sweet toffee, a little toasty, chocolate. Quite firm spicy, citrus and slight tropical flavours with bitterness kicking in quite early. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2014
at 03:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From a 640ml bottle on 18/1/2014. Pours a very dark copper with a small head. Even when warmed, the aroma is perhaps slightly subdued for something so big - a fair whack of toffee malt and a dash of dark fruit. It’s not subdued in the mouth, where is is massively sweet (toffee, caramel and butterscotch), and is followed by a fairly blunt, very warming alcohol led bitterness. The texture is creamy and the carbonation medium. Another Woolies special through this brewer, it comes in a lovely tin box and looks the goods. It’s actually not a bad barley wine and it’s great to see the brewing of this stuff being encouraged and being made available to the masses. It’s not overly sophisticated or subtle (indeed it packs quite a punch), and doesn’t compare to top flight brews in this style, but it’s quite enjoyable none the less.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 01:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 14C. Clear bronze with an off white head that retreats to the rim after a while. Aroma of rich toffee, toast, muscatels, vanilla and orange peel. Alcohol sticks out a bit. Slightly creamy, fairly syrupy, low carbonation. Rich and sweet with toasty toffee that’s a little buttery, dried fruit, firm orange-accented bitterness. Vanilla and drying oak at the end. Some heat. A little overbearing at the moment, may well develop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2013
at 05:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From a 640ml bottle on 9/12/2013. Pours a clearish dark golden with a small head. Features a light fruity aroma which is very subdued by IPA standards. Flavour wise, the story is the same. Nothing objectionable but nothing particularly interesting. There’s a bit of nutty malt, a fair bit of sweet citrus and tropical fruit, and a medium, slightly lingering hop bitterness. Has a medium to full body and average carbonation. Easy enough to quaff but a bit forgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2013
at 01:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pale amber with a white head. Resinous, somewhat soapy aroma with caramel, mandarin and earthy mango, pears. Lightish bodied, medium carbonation. Dull caramel sweetness, mango, pears, pepper, pine. Moderate bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2013
at 07:35