Todays tastings

[Hoppy81]

29 minutes ago, Hilltop hops said:

New PL IPA. Poured a bit flat, tastes grassy compared to the Sierra. Prefer their original IPA. 

That looks very average

[Triple B Brewing]

3 hours ago, Red devil 44 said:

Yeah @Kegory, it was the Burleigh Big Head Lager aka- fish gut lager. 
Single Fin was a very thin tasteless (no hop taste) beer. 
 

Both disappointing IMHO

Absolutely agree @Red devil 44 Single Fin is rubbish IMHO as well

[Hilltop hops]

15 hours ago, Hoppy81 said:

That looks very average

I tried one of their single hop IPAs not long ago which was also very ordinary. Outside of their original range I don't rate any of it. 

[Pale Man]

2 hours ago, Hilltop hops said:

I tried one of their single hop IPAs not long ago which was also very ordinary. Outside of their original range I don't rate any of it. 

Pirate Life have jumped the shark now. Trying to churn out too many different beers. Most of the new ones are ordinary.

[Classic Brewing Co]

12 minutes ago, Pale Man said:

Pirate Life have jumped the shark now. Trying to churn out too many different beers. Most of the new ones are ordinary.

I agree, apart from being sickly the prices are ridiculous, their core range is OK.

[Kegory]

Triple Karmeliet from Brouwerij Bosteels

This is some beer. Complex stone fruit aromas and even more complex and layered tastes. I couldn't drink many of these. At 8.4% I wouldn't need to.

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

Not a bad drop can taste the lemon zest but not over powering or artificial tasting. Pity the can reduced to 330 ml but otherwise very nice.

Edit and alcohol reduced to 4% bunch of pricks.

Edited November 27, 2023 by Uhtred Of Beddanburg

[Kegory]

Sierra Nevada Dankful IPA

I've struggled to get a hold on what "dank" means in beer. To me dank means something like the smell of the gold mine at Sovereign Hill (last visited when I was a wee tacker but it left a lasting impression). And it was only recently that pine/piney clicked in my head. If I'm understanding things correctly piney = danky.

At first I thought it had a slightly citrusy and stone fruit aroma but then I thought no, that's tropical fruits, Papaya, that sort of thing. The makers say it's a tropical fruit medley IPA. Seems like I'm getting better at identifying aromas.

Ok, it's got that piney, resinous West Coast kick, though not as much as I was expecting, along with, I have to agree, a tropical fruit salad flavour (maybe more puree than salad). Nice beer, there's a lot going on.

Edit: people on Beer Advocate are also mentioning citrus and stone fruits, it's not just me, as well as the tropical fruits. There are just so many aromas and flavours in this beer it's hard to keep track of them all.

Edited November 28, 2023 by Kegory
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[Oldbloke]

Too bloody windy to go fishing. Sooo, I was forced to have one of these. 

 

 

[NBillett09]

40 minutes ago, Oldbloke said:

Too bloody windy to go fishing. Sooo, I was forced to have one of these. 

 

 

I hope the stout goes down a bit smoother than the bottle of grass!

[Hoppy81]

Couple of new beers for me today. Funny enough, they taste very similar to the beer I brew. My new one coming out next year is called Ruby Red too, haha. Anyway, great tasting beers, highly recommend getting your hands on these.

 

[Brauhaus Fritz]

My son just send me this from Saigon in Vietnam, would love to try them all

[Classic Brewing Co]

A nice Stout, my mate brought a couple  of these around in exchange for a couple out of the tap, fair deal.

 

[Pale Man]

25 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

A nice Stout, my mate brought a couple  of these around in exchange for a couple out of the tap, fair deal.

 

Yum. My goto stout when Coopers isn't my goto. A1.

[Pale Man]

@Hoppy81 gave me the heads up a few of these are in our local fasina. Bloody lovely traditional IPA. Thanks Hoppy I'm going back for more.

 

[Hoppy81]

12 minutes ago, Pale Man said:

@Hoppy81 gave me the heads up a few of these are in our local fasina. Bloody lovely traditional IPA. Thanks Hoppy I'm going back for more.

 

Quite nice, hey mate.

[Pale Man]

1 minute ago, Hoppy81 said:

Quite nice, hey mate.

Very very nice. I rate it highly among Sheperds Neame and your IPA.

[Brauhaus Fritz]

47 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

A nice Stout, my mate brought a couple  of these around in exchange for a couple out of the tap, fair deal.

 

Nice one, unfortunately can’t get them here in NSW. Still have about 4 from when I picked my son up in S.A.

[Shamus O'Sean]

3 hours ago, Hoppy81 said:

Couple of new beers for me today. Funny enough, they taste very similar to the beer I brew. My new one coming out next year is called Ruby Red too, haha. Anyway, great tasting beers, highly recommend getting your hands on these.

 

Nice.  I am planning a Hobgoblin Ruby after Christmas.

[Kegory]

2 hours ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

Nice.  I am planning a Hobgoblin Ruby after Christmas.

The bottle version or the can version?

[jennyss]

10 hours ago, Brauhaus Fritz said:

would love to try them all

I thought I would like to try all except the 'cod water'; and then I enlarged the photo and realised it is 'god water'. Still not sure.

[Shamus O'Sean]

11 hours ago, Kegory said:

The bottle version or the can version?

A 5.1% version.  Not sure if that is the can or the bottle.  It is based on Pig Den Brewing's version in Brewfather.

https://share.brewfather.app/rJiXjZPXP0MvVq

[Classic Brewing Co]

20 hours ago, Brauhaus Fritz said:

Nice one, unfortunately can’t get them here in NSW. Still have about 4 from when I picked my son up in S.A.

That seems strange that no one has asked for them as it has been around for over 40 years, but I guess it's up to the merchants to source it so it ends up in the liquor stores. 

[Brauhaus Fritz]

1 hour ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

That seems strange that no one has asked for them as it has been around for over 40 years, but I guess it's up to the merchants to source it so it ends up in the liquor stores. 

True. I might need another Roadtrip to Mildura to get another case, ha ha. I actually got it in a Dan Murphy. Sheaf Stout is also hard to find.

[Kegory]

7 hours ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

A 5.1% version.  Not sure if that is the can or the bottle.  It is based on Pig Den Brewing's version in Brewfather.

https://share.brewfather.app/rJiXjZPXP0MvVq

It's pretty close to the bottle version which is 5.2%. The can is 4.7%. It looks like it's based on Orfey's clone recipe which seems to be the flag bearer for Hobgoblin clones.

Which yeast are you going to use?

Apologies for all the questions, it's one of my favourite all time beers. There's a recipe in the Recipe section here that I'm going to have a crack at next year.