Recent Tasting Notes - What's Brewing
Newish mob from Geelong which I believe has taken over the old Scottish Chief brewery. All-in-all I thought the beers showed fairly well.
Map and web links here.
Amber Ale (12/20)
Uninspiring upon pouring with effectively no head. Amber / light brown in colour. Soft malts with a touch of sweet caramel on the nose, not unlike a English bitter. Quite appealing. Very similar to taste although the malt weight doesn’t really get out of 2nd gear. Some firming bitterness on the finish. Quite low in fizz and probably all the better for it. Had I drunk blind I would definately have picked it as a UK bitter. Not bad for a relatively new member on the Melbourne craft scene.
Pale Ale (13/12)
Another decent effort from What’s. glowing orange apricot in the glass with a thin patchy head. Fruity note with added complexity via spicy ginger / nettle note - nice. Steps down a notch in the palate as the malts don’t really make their presence felt. Quite dry with decent hop input, again herbal and spicy, although I should stress "elegant" in terms of flavour intensity. Medium length finish with some confectionary like malts finally making an appearance.
Porter (11/20)
Perhaps the least impressive of the 3 What’s Brewing beers but this is no disaster. Dirty tan brown in colour like filthy dish washing water, kinda unique and certainly different. Milk chocolate roast nose, a touch smokey and acidic (ie burning wood). Like the other beers the palate doesn’t quite live up to the promise of the bouquet. In this case some mild roast notes are offset but a faint metallic, iron like note. Needs a lot more omph (ie obvious sweet notes) although I do appreciate the beer is not necessarily chasing stout-like palate weight.
Map and web links here.
Amber Ale (12/20)
Uninspiring upon pouring with effectively no head. Amber / light brown in colour. Soft malts with a touch of sweet caramel on the nose, not unlike a English bitter. Quite appealing. Very similar to taste although the malt weight doesn’t really get out of 2nd gear. Some firming bitterness on the finish. Quite low in fizz and probably all the better for it. Had I drunk blind I would definately have picked it as a UK bitter. Not bad for a relatively new member on the Melbourne craft scene.
Pale Ale (13/12)
Another decent effort from What’s. glowing orange apricot in the glass with a thin patchy head. Fruity note with added complexity via spicy ginger / nettle note - nice. Steps down a notch in the palate as the malts don’t really make their presence felt. Quite dry with decent hop input, again herbal and spicy, although I should stress "elegant" in terms of flavour intensity. Medium length finish with some confectionary like malts finally making an appearance.
Porter (11/20)
Perhaps the least impressive of the 3 What’s Brewing beers but this is no disaster. Dirty tan brown in colour like filthy dish washing water, kinda unique and certainly different. Milk chocolate roast nose, a touch smokey and acidic (ie burning wood). Like the other beers the palate doesn’t quite live up to the promise of the bouquet. In this case some mild roast notes are offset but a faint metallic, iron like note. Needs a lot more omph (ie obvious sweet notes) although I do appreciate the beer is not necessarily chasing stout-like palate weight.
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