ABV: 6.6% Style: Doppelbock The nose is the best part of this beer – full of toffee, dried prunes and figs, as well as dark chocolate. Then there’s good fruit and soft spice on the palate. Full-bodied and super malty, the beer itself is lighter on booze and body than one might imagine. There’s also some spice, heat and sweetness. Wrongsidebrewing.com.au
ABV: 4.2% Style: Draught beer The beer looks great – a deep straw colour and a great head. It smells great, with aromas of melon and stonefruit are the start. Taste-wise, this is an easy-drinking beer with good grassy hops and soft fruits. There’s sweetness, a faint bitterness and a slight pineapple flavour, all brought together in a nice, spritzy mouthfeel. Goatbeer.com.au
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ABV: 6.3% Style: Bock Rich copper and amber colours sit beneath a tan head. Toasty, caramel aromas mingle with earthy hops and a touch of cocoa. When it comes to first taste, it’s caramel from start to finish, with flashes of grapefruit in the middle. This is a well-bodied beer full of flavour and toasty caramelised goodness. Edenbrewery.beer
Style: West Coast IPA A little hazy, this beer is pale yellow to orange in colour. The aroma is as punchy and dank as you like, with some herbaceous notes and caramel added for good measure. Take a sip and you’re enveloped in hops – the smells are there, the bitterness is there, and the aftertaste lingers nicely. A great interpretation of a West Coast IPA. Hemingwaysbrewery.com
ABV: 5.7% Style: Stout A thick tan head sits atop this beer and stays there, offering strong aromas of coffee and roasted chocolate, along with essences of nuttiness and light smoke. Mediumbodied, the beer has some heat to it, along with a dry cocoa taste on the palate. It’s very nutty and chocolate, but there is a nice hop bitterness as well. A thoroughly enjoyable beer. Littlebang.com.au
Style: IPA A great American IPA, this beer is oozing tropical fruit, with a light malt bill to highlight the hops. Stonefruits galore on the nose, along with plenty of pine, while the palate is rich with orange, grapefruit, pine and yeast esters. A raisin-y mouthfeel is complemented by light hop bitterness. Yullisbrews.com.au
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Style: Kettle sour The judges enjoyed the easy drinking nature of this dry-hopped sour beer that features cherry, mandarin colours on the eye, a great nose, and pleasant fruitiness mingled with a tart tang on the palate. Slightly hazy, it has a clean, good mouthfeel, a dry, long finish and an acidic aftertaste. Ballisticbeer.com.au
ABV: 7.4%
Little Bang Inside Voice Foreign Extra Stout
ABV: 6.7%
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ABV: 4.7%
Hemingway’s The Endeavour
Yulli’s Amanda Mandarin IPA
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Ballistic Twang Kettle Sour – Hibiscus and Feijoa
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Eden Argania Bock
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Style: Pilsner There’s a slight haziness to this beer, but it is also showcases the brilliant brightness and lacing of a typical pilsner. The nose is bright with touches of pear, while the palate balances solid bitterness with sweet malts. Overall a very good, well-made lager that’s very easy to drink. Whitebrickbrewing.com.au
Mountain Goat GOAT
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ABV: 4.8%
Wrong Side Brewing Doppelbock
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White Brick Petrie Pilsener
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BEER TASTING
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Holgate Double Stout ABV: 8% Style: Double stout This is a properly dark beer, which keep things low key until you take a sip. Low key aromas of balanced vanilla, chocolate, liquorice and coconut are followed by an almost portlike flavour on the palate – with coffee, chocolate and dates – which is then followed by oaky, woody dryness. A mouth-filling, big beer, with lots going on and dominated by oak character. Holgatebrewhouse.com
Endeavour Amber Ale ABV: 5.2% Style: Amber ale Good caramel malt flavours come through nicely in this deep rich, red beer, backed with a pleasant bitterness. There’s an earthy nature to the nose. It’s a wellrounded example of an amber ale, with a balanced body. Endeavourbeer.com
This tasting was originally conducted for the Spring Issue 50 of Beer & Brewer.
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