Recent Tasting Notes

Challenge Premium Pils (3/20)
Amazing that a specialist importer would even bother to bring this garbage into Australia. Industrial pale lager of the highest order with cheap adjunct, cheap and dilutive bitterness and of course plenty of fizz. This is well below even when compared to CUB. I wonder who makes this stuff. Is it a contract job?

Scheldebrouwerij Oesterstout (15/20)
Hey - I like this. The best of the Schelde beers I’ve had to date. Thick dark brown to look at, more meal that drink perhaps. Nose screams of oyster stout; sweet malts, funky, old fish oil, with a touch of vineagar. Aromas are faithfully replayed into the palate. Nice zinging oyster sauce / vinegar note. Feels lighter that the 8.5% labelled, and perhaps more Belgian Ale than stout?

Scheldebrouwerij De Zeezuiper (15/20)
Pretty solid drop. Hazy dull orange with a thin fizzy head - very attractive. Masses of apricot on the nose, very distinctive and very lifted. Palate is very fizzy but it seems to work in this instance. Flavours are driven with fruity malts, apricot and a slight lemon note. Some heat and aniseed in the back palate, more from the alcohol than anything else. So much obvious appeal in this beer.