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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Bentspoke Hazee Hazy Pale Ale 375ml Can

Pale Ale - New England / Hazy, 4.2% ABV

Brewery: BentSpoke Brewing Co

Location: Braddon, Australian Capital Territory Australia

Description: 

This hazy pale ale is light and fruity, sessionable and approachable.

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Molly Rose Kuro Japanese Dark Lager 375ml Can

Lager - Dark, 6% ABV

Brewery: Molly Rose Brewing

Location: Collingwood, Victoria Australia

Description:

Molly Rose is a small, local brewery based in Melbourne. We think that great beer should not only be delightful to drink but also made to share with great friends, fantastic food and excellent conversation. Our beers will be made with attention to be enjoyed without a care.

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Grifter XPA 375ml Can

Pale Ale - XPA (Extra Pale), 4.4% ABV

Brewery: The Grifter Brewing Co.

Location: Marrickville, New South Wales Australia

Description:

Introducing the third prong in our range of classics: The Grifter XPA. Our new XPA takes the essence of our best-selling Pale Ale and steps it up a notch - or several. The Extra Pale Ale is richer in hoppy fruitiness, giving it a citrusy, tropical punch. These bold flavours can really shine above a unique malt bill that includes wheat and oats for a soft yet crisp and satisfying mouthfeel. All of this comes together in a balanced, thirst-quenching drinking experience that'll hit the spot no matter the occasion.

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Garage Project Red Dog Miso & Rice Red IPA 330ml Can

IPA - Red, 5.7% ABV

Brewery: Garage Project

Location: Wellington City, Wellington New Zealand

Description:

What is the perfect burger beer? Juicy malts to compliment chargrilled character, hop bitterness to cut through fat and maybe a touch of umami to elevate the whole experience? Say hi to Red Dog - Red IPA brewed with four malts, red rice, Kohatu, Mosaic and Nelson Sauvin hops and red miso. Chewy malt and balanced bitterness, juicy tropical fruit aromatics with a delicate umami twist. It’s your burger’s best friend!

Art By - Sian Hislop

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Bells Beach Piha NZ Pils 375ml Can

Pilsner - New Zealand, 5.7% ABV

Brewery: Bells Beach Brewing

Location: Torquay, Victoria Australia

Description:

West coast meets New Zealand Pilsner. A simple pilsner malt base with a touch of melanoidin malt for added biscuit character is fermented out very dry. Generous helpings of Rakau in the boil, whirlpool and dry hop brings apricot and tropical fruit tones to the aroma and flavour. 

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Blackmans Barrel Farm Spring Ale 375ml Can

Pale Ale - Other, 4.4% ABV

Brewery: Blackman's Brewery

Location: Torquay, Victoria Australia

Description:

BARREL FARM SPRING ALE

A hybrid pale ale, made with Belgian yeast and specialty malts giving light sweetness, spice and ultimate drinkability. This is a beer that showcases yeast and light malts working in unison.

PROCESS
A blend of light specialty malts for flavour and aromatics, fermented with Wyeast 3944 Wit Yeast to give light spice and clove notes. We have blended this beer with 10% barrel aged brett beer for light barrel notes.

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Bridge Road California IPA 355ml Can

IPA - American, 6.5% ABV

Brewery: Bridge Road Brewers

Location: Beechworth, Victoria Australia

Description:

A lean and clean Cali IPA. Starting out with a soft approach on the malt and fermentation profile, we've dip-hopped with Mosaic INCOGNITO to take an already complex hop bill that extra mile.

HOPS: Northern Brewer, Mosaic INCOGNITO,
Citra, Simcoe, Eclipse, Mosaic

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New England Sanger Hefeweizen 500ml Can

Wheat Beer - Hefeweizen, 5.8% ABV

Brewery: New England Brewing Co.

Location: Uralla, New South Wales Australia

Description:

We’ve had the pleasure of having Hans Sanger working with us from Germany the past 4 months, trading the foggy mountains of Bavaria for frosty Uralla. Sanger has been given the keys to the brewhouse for this one and has brewed a classic Hefeweizen with big flavours of banana, spice. It’s a banger! We’ve priced this one very well, so you can keep a very competitive price on the shelf.

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Mountain Culture x Green Cheek Ruffle'n Feathers Hazy IPA 355ml Can

IPA - New England / Hazy, 6% ABV

Brewery: Mountain Culture Beer Co.

Location: Emu Plains, New South Wales Australia

Description: 

We've brewed this collaboration beer with our long time feathered friends from across the Pacific Ocean, Green Cheek, using Citra®, Galaxy and Krush™ hops to create a tropical flavour profile combing sweet passionfruit with tangy grapefruit.

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Ocean Reach Nels Hikes NZ IPA 500ml Can

IPA - New Zealand, 6.2% ABV

Brewery: Ocean Reach Brewing

Location: Cowes, Victoria Australia

Description: 

Tropical fruit and pine notes are complemented by a well-balanced bitterness. Hints of gooseberry, and a touch of white wine flair. Nels the kiwi hikes through delightful turns, finding his NZ IPA there.

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White Bay Helles Bock 440ml Can

Bock - Hell / Maibock / Lentebock, 6.3% ABV

Brewery: White Bay Brewery

Location: Balmain, New South Wales Australia

Description:

Another one of our Oktoberfest releases for 2024. As far back as the Middle Ages, Helles Bocks were traditionally released during the Spring and were famous for long conditioning times, packing a boozy punch and being exceptionally high quality. We’re keeping true to these long-standing brewing techniques to produce a balanced, slightly bitter, slightly sweet lager containing 100% German malt and hops. Prost!

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Slow Lane x Bracket Hibernation Baltic Porter 375ml Can

Porter - Baltic, 9.5% ABV

Brewery: Slow Lane Brewing

Location: Botany, New South Wales Australia

Description:

Hibernation was brewed in collaboration with our friends at Bracket Brewing during their winter ‘hibernation’ while they were moving their brewery from one location to another. Baltic Porter is a style that we have a shared love for, combining big complex dark malt and chocolate flavours with the smoothness of a cold fermentation with lager yeast. Perfect for warming you up during your winter hibernation on the couch!

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Boatrocker Miss Pinky Raspberry Berliner Weisse 375ml Can

Sour - Fruited Berliner Weisse, 3.4% ABV

Brewery: Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers

Location: Braeside, Victoria Australia

Description:

Berliner Weisse style ale brewed with two strains of Lactobacillus using traditional German kettle fermentation, and then a special ale yeast for secondary fermentation. 100kg of fresh, locally sourced raspberries were then added to the fermenter to help give this beer it distinctive colour, aroma and flavour.

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New England Truckload IPA 375ml Can

IPA - American, 6.2% ABV

Brewery: New England Brewing Co.

Location: Uralla, New South Wales Australia

Description:

Our brewers reckoned we’d need a truckload of hops to brew this IPA the right way. So we reached out to get the finest truckload of Australian and US hops for an IPA that doesn’t hold back. Big on aroma, clean present bitterness, and lasting fruits. Back it up, that’ll do.

HOPS
Centennial, Enigma, Vic Secret & Mosaic

MALT
Coopers Ale & Carapils

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Good Land Gold Star South Texas Amber Lager 440ml Can

Lager - American Amber / Red, 5.4% ABV

Brewery: Good Land Brewing Co

Location: Traralgon, Victoria Australia

Description:

Introducing Gold Star, a tribute to the warm, vibrant spirit of South Texas. This amber lager shines with a deep, amber hue and a smooth, rich flavour profile. Brewed in Traralgon

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Slow Lane Little One Table Beer 375ml Can

Table Beer, 3% ABV

Brewery: Slow Lane Brewing

Location: Botany, New South Wales Australia

Description:

Table beers are light bodied, low alcohol beers that were popular in medieval Belgium and France. They were designed as a casual beer that could be enjoyed by the masses at mealtimes. Little One includes a large percentage of wheat and oats to provide additional body. It is fermented with a mixed culture of Belgian Abbey and Brettanomyces Claussenii yeast to provide complex fruit and spice notes.

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Yullis Toby Crossing Indian Pacific Ale 375ml Can

IPA - American, 5.7% ABV

Brewery: Yulli's Brews

Location: Alexandria, New South Wales Australia

Description:

Toby is a hop driven pale beer making use of Australia’s quintessential hop - Galaxy combined with two brand new varieties out of the US - Samba & Strata. Expect tropical fruit, stone fruit, tangerine and dank hops.

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