Recent Tasting Notes
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale (15/20)
Very solid beer. True to form IPA appearance with glowing dark amber, maybe toffee orange. Plenty of obvious hop character to smell along with some heavy, slightly cooked malts, the latter certaintly not in the ’sweet’ spectrum. More quality hop action to taste and the malts again show presence. Quite easy to pick the style on both nose and palate. I wish Australia had widely distributed beer of this quality.
Moo Brew Dark Ale (11/20)
About 56 case were made available for Victoria and we managed to pick up a handful. Fully priced at just under $5.00 per bottle. Pours nicely; darkish chocolate brown with a thin off-white head. Roasty notes on the nose, dry and quite mild. Very dry and tight palate, not a huge surprise given the nose. Some hop influence here, certaintly more detectable than any roast or chocolate from the hops. I actually don’t mind this character but it takes some getting used to. Hops drive a fairly long finish.
Barons Pale Ale (7/20)
I was going to kick off this note with another rant questioning why so-called micros in this country churn out utter crap. Macro appearance of dark golden amber and a thin fizzy head. Aromas give me absolutely nothing. Flavours are terribly bland; almost CUB like with a cardboard staleness to the malts and a piss-weak level of bitterness to finish. Very disappointing.
Very solid beer. True to form IPA appearance with glowing dark amber, maybe toffee orange. Plenty of obvious hop character to smell along with some heavy, slightly cooked malts, the latter certaintly not in the ’sweet’ spectrum. More quality hop action to taste and the malts again show presence. Quite easy to pick the style on both nose and palate. I wish Australia had widely distributed beer of this quality.
Moo Brew Dark Ale (11/20)
About 56 case were made available for Victoria and we managed to pick up a handful. Fully priced at just under $5.00 per bottle. Pours nicely; darkish chocolate brown with a thin off-white head. Roasty notes on the nose, dry and quite mild. Very dry and tight palate, not a huge surprise given the nose. Some hop influence here, certaintly more detectable than any roast or chocolate from the hops. I actually don’t mind this character but it takes some getting used to. Hops drive a fairly long finish.
Barons Pale Ale (7/20)
I was going to kick off this note with another rant questioning why so-called micros in this country churn out utter crap. Macro appearance of dark golden amber and a thin fizzy head. Aromas give me absolutely nothing. Flavours are terribly bland; almost CUB like with a cardboard staleness to the malts and a piss-weak level of bitterness to finish. Very disappointing.
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