December 2024 Beer Club Subscription
1st Dec 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.
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Capital Haze Oasis Hazy Pale Ale 375ml Can
Pale Ale - New England / Hazy, 4.5% ABV
Brewery: Capital Brewing Co
Location: Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory Australia
Description:
Stumble upon the Haze Oasis you’ve been seeking! Juicy hops create a tropical mirage, stranding your taste buds in a sunny, blissful haze.
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Mountain Culture x Range Hyper IPA 355ml Can
IPA - New England / Hazy, 6.2% ABV
Brewery: Mountain Culture Beer Co.
Location: Emu Plains, New South Wales Australia
Description:
If we're going to brew a DDH IPA with our longtime mates over the border in QLD, Range Brewing, of course we're going to use our favourite hype hops: Citra, Rakau and Peacherine. Together, it's like we've absolutely raided the fruit aisles of QLD and NSW for the freshest, peachiest, apricotiest haze bomb with a sweet citrus backbone.
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New England Hitsuji Single Origin Rice Lager 375ml Can
Lager - Japanese Rice, 4.7% ABV
Brewery: New England Brewing Co.
Location: Uralla, New South Wales Australia
Description:
Hitsuji is about as premium as we go! Using drylands single origin Tachiminori rice from Northern NSW, this Japanese style lager has light fruity floral hints in a smooth body, before a classic dry, crisp finish.
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Two Mates x Shambles Third Wheel American IPA 375ml Can/Boatrocker ESB
IPA - American, 6.5% ABV
Brewery: Shambles Brewery
Location: Hobart, Tasmania Australia
Description:
Third Wheel IPA celebrates the evolution of the IPA style over the past couple of decades, stripping away the crystal malts to focus on a cleaner, drier finish. This collab brew between Shambles Brewery and Two Mates Brewing brings the hop character to the main stage, delivering bright citrus and tropical fruit flavours with a hint of pine and zest. Using advanced hop extracts further enhances the aroma and intensity, providing all the hop punch without the heaviness. This is a modern IPA: crisp, bold, and bursting with layered complexity.
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Freshwater Pacific Pils 375ml Can
Pilsner, 5% ABV
Brewery: Freshwater Brewing Company
Location: Brookvale, New South Wales Australia
Description:
The NZ Pilsner, a super underrated style. Lagered for 6 1/2 weeks and dry hopped with an insane blend of kiwi hops. We're proud as to get our Pacific Pils out there
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Slow Lane Bygone Era Marzen Rauchbier 375ml Can
Rauchbier, 6% ABV
Brewery: Slow Lane Brewing
Location: Botany, New South Wales Australia
Description:
Modern interpretations of old world European ales and lagers
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Pirate Life Tripel D'Adelaide Belgian Style Blonde Ale 500ml Can
Belgian Blonde, 7.5% ABV
Brewery: Pirate Life Brewing
Location: Adelaide, South Australia Australia
Description:
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – in which case, the crew at De Koninck Brewery in Antwerp would likely be chuffed with this. And while our Tripel D’Adelaide is by no means a frame by frame remake of their award-winning Tripel D’Anvers, it most certainly is, as our Head Brewer Lewy puts it, an homage…
Pilsner Malt and oats lend a sturdy foundation and striking golden hues. It’s a blonde, meaning the body is brisk and the carbonation bright, but there’s still loads of chewy bread and honey notes there, too.
Like all good Belgians, it’s the yeast which binds the offering. The WLP530 Abbey Ale strain from White Labs more than delivers here, providing all the archetypal characters you’d expect - not to mention a 7.5% ABV.
Pear drop, orange zest, banana, and spicy phenols are all present, wafting steadily from a thick, meringue-like head. On the palate, we find a well-balanced marriage of the above, resulting in an exuberantly complex, yet ultimately refreshing froth.
Pair with mussels and hot chips.
Malt: Pilsner Malt, Golden Naked Oats
Hops: Motueka
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Hawkers Core Workout Cryo Mosaic DH Pale Ale 440ml Can
Pale Ale - American, 4% ABV
Brewery: Hawkshead Brewery
Location: Kendal, Cumbria England
Description:
Mosaic Gluten Free Pale Ale, developed to showcase the amazing aromas and flavour of the Mosaic Hop. You should be able to pick up blueberry, tangerine and papaya, with the addition of bittering hop Hallertau Blanc bringing lemongrass and passionfruit to the beer. Mosaic Pale Ale has a very pale malt base, with carapils and malted oats added to give a lightly toasted complexity and an enhanced mouth feel.
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Blackmans x Hop Nation Juicy Banging JJuice NEIPA 375ml Can
IPA - New England / Hazy, 7.1% ABV
Brewery: Hop Nation Brewing Co
Location: Footscray, Victoria Australia
Description:
One of our most popular and award-winning beers! Hazy, juicy and with a citrusy hop aroma – finishing off with intense flavour and a great mouthfeel. Featuring Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin, Citra and Mosaic hops – this beer will bring out the Jedi in everyone. Unfined and unfiltered, J JUICE pours quite hazy in the glass with a bright orange colour.
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Mountain Goat Rare Breed Trigo BA Wheatwine 500ml Can
Wheat Beer - Wheat Wine, 11% ABV
Brewery: Mountain Goat Beer
Location: Richmond, Victoria Australia
Description:
A Barrel-Aged Wheatwine made with two specialty wheat malts.
APPEARANCE:
Light copper.
AROMA:
Bubblegum, pear drops and honeydew melon esters.
FLAVOUR:
Bright candied ginger, fruity confectionary, and a lightly spiced tannic finish.
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Five Barrel Nelly Christmas Spiced Dubbel 440ml Can
Belgian Dubbel, 7.4% ABV
Brewery: Five Barrel Brewing
Location: Wollongong, New South Wales Australia
Description:
Spiced Christmas Dubbel.
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Gweilo Apricot Sundae Sour 440ml Can
Sour - Fruited, 4.4% ABV
Brewery: Gweilo Beer
Location: Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Description:
Apricot Sundae Sour is a fruity treat of a brew. We’ve added wheat, oats and lactose to give the kettle soured base creamy notes and a thick mouthfeel. Lashings of apricot purée are added during fermentation, then everything is rounded off with almonds and vanilla.
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Devilbend Ned's Dark Ale 375ml Can
Dark Ale, 4.6% ABV
Brewery: Devilbend Farm Beer Co
Location: Tuerong, Victoria Australia
Description:
Presents with refreshing sweetness, balanced by a moderate bitterness.
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King River King Valley Kolsch 375ml Can
Kölsch, 4.9% ABV
Brewery: King River Brewing
Location: King Valley, Victoria Australia
Description:
Slightly sweet, medium body Kolsch styled ale. Subtle fruity aroma with some spiciness from noble hops. A real crowd pleaser and easy drinking beer
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Mountain Goat GOAT IPA 375ml Can
IPA - American, 6.5% ABV
Brewery: Mountain Goat Beer
Location: Richmond, Victoria Australia
Description:
Our brewers love a classic IPA, and you can’t get more classic than this one. For our IPA we drew on twenty years of brewing, two consecutive AIBA Champion IPAs, a couple of trial brews, and more than a few "tasting panels" along the way. Resinous and citrusy, this is a bold, West-Coast IPA that was made for hopheads everywhere.
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Sunday Road Una Mas Cerveza 375ml Can
Lager - Mexican, 4.5% ABV
Brewery: Sunday Road Brewing
Location: Kirrawee, New South Wales Australia
Description:
You decide if it's one more rep, one more mile, or one more beer with this easy drinking, thirst quenching Cerveza.
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Sailors Grave Sea Bird Coastal Pale Ale 355ml Can
Pale Ale - New England / Hazy, 5.2% ABV
Brewery: Sailors Grave Brewing
Location: Orbost, Victoria Australia
Description:
Our Hazy Pale Ale is dry-hopped with new world hops for that bright, creamy and refreshing citrus-forward juiciness. It's not a Sailors Grave beer without a subtle taste of Gippsland, so we've added a touch of earthy coastal brine with the addition of fresh locally foraged Saltbush from the Gippsland coastline hand-picked by Gab.
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Bondi Brewing Thicc Hazy IPA 375ml Can
IPA - New England / Hazy, 6% ABV
Brewery: The Bondi Brewing Co.
Location: North Bondi, New South Wales Australia
Description:
BONDI THICC, it’s a Juicy, Hazy IPA. Heaps of Amarillo, Centennial and Galaxy hops brewed with some weirdo super yeast known as Kveik Espe, and that makes it super awesomer.?
Could it be the Thiccest of all the Hazys...?
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BONDI - The beer for drinking.
[try not to do too much else with it]
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Boatrocker ESB 375ml Can
Bitter - Extra Special / Strong (ESB), 5.5% ABV
Brewery: Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
Location: Braeside, Victoria Australia
Description:
A stalwart of the British brewing scene and, of the brewery that makes them, a showcase of their talent with both malt and hops. ESB is balanced with delicious malt flavours then finishing with pleasant bitterness.