April 2024 Beer Club Subscription
4th Apr 2024
Welcome to this month's tasting notes. Get ready for a mouth watering selection of delicious beer. The full list of beers included in this month's beer subscription are below. Note different beers are included in different packs. This selection can be seen and rated on Untappd here.
You can view our different beer subscription packs here or update your subscription details here.
Cerveza Oscura Lager - Mexican
5.3% ABV
Brewery: Beer Fontaine
Brewery: Beer Fontaine
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Description:
A crisp, refreshing, malty Mexican style amber coloured lager. This beer was crafted with Pilsner, Munich, Vienna & Carafe Malts, Saaz Hops & Mexican Yeast.
PK DARK Lager - Dark
4.5% ABV
Brewery: Seeker Brewing
Location: Unanderra, New South Wales
Description:
Port Kembla Dark. A rich & refreshing collaboration By The Servo & Seeker Brewing. A delicious dark lager: Smooth chocolate, subtle cola & a roasted malt backbone. It's brewed for refreshin' & perfect for a session, Like a golden PK sunset into the night, It's a classic that just feels right. Best enjoyed ice cold at The Servo, In beautiful downtown Port Kembla, NSW.
Cause You Are Gold Pale Ale - Belgian
5% ABV
Brewery: Beer Fontaine
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Description:
Rated 3.5 out of 5 on Untappd
The base of this beer, is our gold medal winning Pétillant & highlights how process over recipe can create a beer so different from its base.
We dry hopped this beer with Aussie Galaxy hops & NZ Wai-iti Hops. 2 of our favourites, in the whole wide world.
this beer was crafted with belgian pilsner malt, wheat malt & chit, dry hopped with
Galaxy, Wai-iti & Nelson Sauvin Hops in the Whirlpool, Belgian yeast.
*Contains Gluten
Deeds Draught Lager - American
4.2% ABV
Brewery: Deeds Brewing
Location: Glen Iris, Victoria
Description:
Rated 3.25 out of 5 on Untappd
A bright, clean and refreshing lager made with 20% maize adding a balanced creaminess to its crisp finish. Hopped with Mandarina Bavaria, evoking slight notes of mandarin oranges. ◉ Hops: Mandarina Bavaria, Warrior
SUMMER FRIDAYS IPA - New England
6.5% ABV
Brewery: Evil Twin Brewing NYC
Location: Ridgewood, NY
Description:
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
Double dry-hopped with Citra, Comet, & El Dorado.
Pilsner Pilsner - Other
4.5% ABV
Brewery: Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
Location: Braeside, Victoria
Description:
Rated 3.5 out of 5 on Untappd
Boatrocker Pilsner is a New World Pilsner. It's our little nod to the amazing pilsners from Northern Germany...with a little love from New Zealand hops. We crafted this beer with only the best German pilsner malt, then loaded it up with some choice Kiwi hops (including late boil hop bursting & dry hopping).
Pickle Beer Sour - Tomato
4.3% ABV
Brewery: Garage Project
Location: Wellington City, Wellington
Description:
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
A clean, refreshing sour beer inspired by the burger’s classic companion - the dill pickle. Naturally kettle soured and infused with cucumber, dill, and pickle spice. This quirky refreshing beer would be the perfect playmate for the classic cheese burger, fish burger or any other pickle loving burger offering.
Chocolate Stout Stout - Oatmeal
6.1% ABV
Brewery: Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
Location: Braeside, Victoria
Description:
Rated 4.0 out of 5 on Untappd
We've taken our classic Stout and infused decadent chocolate flavours using organic cacao nibs and vanilla beans.
Beyond the Pale - Lolly Scramble Sour - Other
4.2% ABV
Brewery: Garage Project
Location: Wellington City, Wellington
Description:
Rated 3.5 out of 5 on Untappd
Beyond the Pale, a Garage tradition celebrating New Zealand’s own fantastic Fringe Festival with a very special avant garde offering. This year it’s a Lolly Scramble. A riotous assortment of sweets, including acid drops, raspberry drops, gummies and marshmallows, thrown into the boil deliver an outrageously vibrant, frivolously fun sweet and sour candy creation with a sensational raspberry, lemon and vanilla twist. Get ‘out there’.
Art by: Becca O'Shea
Sixteen - Nitro Double Irish Red Ale - Special 16th Birthday Release Red Ale - Irish
6.5% ABV
Brewery: Rocks Brewing Co
Location: Alexandria, New South Wales
Description:
Special 16th Birthday Release
Beer Style: Nitro Double Irish Red Ale
To celebrate our 16th Birthday, we took a trip down memory lane to the beer that started it all at Rocks Brewing Co, the Irish Red Ale. 16 years on, we are bigger, bolder, and full of character. This beer is no different.
Based on the original recipe, turned up to 16 this Irish Red Ale is rich with chocolate, caramel, and sweet biscuit malt flavour. Full bodied with a beautifully silky mouthfeel made possible by the addition of NITRO!
Shake well and pour hard.
Happy Birthday to us!
Malibu IPA - American
6.5% ABV
Brewery: Range Brewing
Location: Newstead, Queensland
Description:
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
Malibu is a California IPA brewed for punchy flavour and extreme drinkability. We’ve dry-hopped this beachside banger with the holy trinity - Citra, Simcoe and Mosaic to deliver maximum Cali vibes. As usual, we have used an ultra lean malt base to give us a very bright and clear appearance as you pour it. Aromas of lychee, passionfruit, blueberries and tropical papaya swim around in the glass, inviting you in to take a dip. Lychee, white grape, tangerine and more papaya dominate the palate, keeping things ultra refreshing. Crisp and snappy on the finish, this one is purpose built for whiling away the day and watching the sun set over the ocean. Take another sip and watch as the light just radiates.
Golden Valley Pale Ale - Belgian
6.5% ABV
Brewery: Slow Lane Brewing
Description:
Botany, New South Wales
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
Golden Valley is our homage to Orval, the Belgian Trappist beer that has served as a huge inspiration for our brewing philosophy at Slow Lane. A bitter ale fermented with a Belgian Abbey yeast strain and dry hopped with Styrian Golding hops, then can-conditioned with Brettanomyces to give the beer its distinctive complexity. Similarly to Orval, this is a living beer and its flavours will continue to develop during extended cellaring.
Shield Wall Porter Porter - Other
6.5% ABV
Brewery: Ekim Brewing Co.
Location: Mount Kuring-Gai, New South Wales
Description:
A full bodied porter with a rich malt backbone, with plenty of decadent chocolate and caramel malts, as well as the addition of oats to give it that smooth mouthfeel - all coming together for a solid beer you can get behind!
Backpack Ale Pale Ale - New England
5% ABV
Brewery: Mountain Culture Beer Co.
Location: Emu Plains, New South Wales
Description:
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
A sessionable ale brewed with Australian Galaxy hops smuggled by some colourful types from the sea to the mountains. Blended together with American Idaho 7, Mosaic and Amarillo for vibrant tropical fruit flavours that float effortlessly through a smooth, hazy body and refreshing finish.
New Zealand Hopped Hazy IPA IPA - New England
6% ABV
Brewery: Green Beacon
Location: Teneriffe, Queensland
Description:
Rated 3.25 out of 5 on Untappd
We're trippin' around the world on a lupulin adventure and our first stop is New Zealand. This hazy IPA is chocka with sweet floral aromas and juicy tropical hop flavours of poached pear, zesty lime, sticky fig and grassy resin from Rakau, Wakatu and Motueka.
Hazy IIPA IPA - Imperial
8% ABV
Brewery: Pirate Life Brewing
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Description:
This specialty 9th b’day release is a tidy reinterpretation of last year’s Deal or no Deal Hazy IIPA – which, if you recall, was 11%. We dialled that back, and reckon it’s sitting pretty.
It pours thick and golden, like mango nectar. Expect aromas of tropical fruit, flowering indica, and resinous pine. To drink, it’s assertive and fruity, with well-integrated bitterness and a finish of ripe stone fruit.
Daisy Pale Ale - New England
4.8% ABV
Brewery: The Grifter Brewing Co.
Location: Marrickville, New South Wales
Description:
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
To quote Grifter - 'A straight up hazy tropical explosion thanks to layers of a classic mix of Amarillo, Citra and Mosaic'.
Organic Hazy Pale Ale - New England
3.5% ABV
Brewery: Five Barrel Brewing
Location: Wollongong, New South Wales
Rated
Description:
3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
ABV: 3.5%
IBU: 15 (approx)
Hops: Ryefield Centennial, Ryefield Victoria
Malt: Voyager Organic Pilsner, Voyager Organic Munich, Whispering Pines Organic Oats.
Appearance: luminescent pale-straw haze, capped by a pillowy white heat
Aroma: Smelling of Classic Australian hops; citrus & stone fruit.
Flavour: fruit-forward flavour, light and clean with a sweet, citrusy finish.
Body: Light
Night Hunter Lager - Pale
4.8% ABV
Brewery: New England Brewing Co.
Location: Uralla, New South Wales
Description:
Rated 3.75 out of 5 on Untappd
We’ve got a thing for the guys at Quoll Headquarters and their Quolls. It’s where Steve and his team breed, preserve and protect the Quoll, a little Australian carnivorous marsupial that hunts its prey at night with stealth and efficiency. Cute with a nasty side- the opposite to this premium lager that’s smooth with hints of noble hops.
We are donating $5 from every carton sold of Night Hunter Premium Lager to Quoll Headquarters to aid in preservation and protection of the Quoll.
Malt: Ale Malt & German Pilsner Malt
Hops: Mittlefruh, Tettnanger & Hersbrucker