jayse
Black Label Society
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Went and checked out the new lobethal brewpub on saturday for a couple hours and must say its fantastic, everything single thing is perfect. The beers on the day were heffeweizen, APA and porter and each were spot on, classic examples of the styles.
With the APA they aren't affraid to put it out there with a bitterness right up there were it should be, the aroma of american hops was sensational and hit you in the face from over the bar as soon as the tap was pulled. Plenty of wonderfull malt in there aswell and is very well balanced, much better example of a APA than that so called APA, thin watery MOO brew. To top it of it was brite as could be with a colour to die for and clean as whistle. All up a very well made beer and one of the best commercial APA i have had.
The heffe was a classic and to review it I'd say it pretty much reads like the guidelines for a gold medal beer, light soft fluffy wheat, perfect balance of bananna, vanilla and soft only slightly spicey clove. Pretty much a perfect example of such a beer, very well rounded.
The porter was awesome, lots of depth of malt character from the aroma through to the end. Had a wonderfull rich maltyness with toasted biscuit, choc and hints of raisen and some low level earthy hops underlining. Up at 6% it was a rip snorter.
The whole venue looks sensational, lots of room with the brand spanking new brite shiny brewhouse behind a big wall of glass on the right as you walk in then going around to the reasonably long bar with a long glassed door beer fridge fronted cool room in which you can see the 7 brite beer tanks behind shelves of bottled drinks. Going along further from that you see the kitchen which you can see all opened up over the resturant bar so you can see everything going on in there in plain view, everything in the kitchen is decked out in S/S with the same polished copper bands as the brewery. It looks pretty damn cool. We didn't try anything from the kitchen but noted the food looked great and the prices were all only around ten bucks with a half the menu only around $8.50, all the resturant stuff is on there website. I didn't take any pics but there a few small ones on their website, the small pics don't really do the brewery justice though.
Plenty of tables inside and a nice big log fire and out front there is a huge area aswell all decked out with big tables and umbrellas etc. At 10c when we were there we didn't take very many smoke breaks outside but can see come warmer weather......
Anyway just thought i'd post a few tidbits of what I remember and say to everyone to get yourselfs out there. The best way to get there is through hahndorf / woodside making use of the freeway. We did go via magil road and out through the winding hills on the way there but took the otherway home via grumpys and must say that way is much better. It really is a bit of a effort driving the other way when your in a hurry for a beer or two.
Thats about it i think, anyone else been?
Jayse
With the APA they aren't affraid to put it out there with a bitterness right up there were it should be, the aroma of american hops was sensational and hit you in the face from over the bar as soon as the tap was pulled. Plenty of wonderfull malt in there aswell and is very well balanced, much better example of a APA than that so called APA, thin watery MOO brew. To top it of it was brite as could be with a colour to die for and clean as whistle. All up a very well made beer and one of the best commercial APA i have had.
The heffe was a classic and to review it I'd say it pretty much reads like the guidelines for a gold medal beer, light soft fluffy wheat, perfect balance of bananna, vanilla and soft only slightly spicey clove. Pretty much a perfect example of such a beer, very well rounded.
The porter was awesome, lots of depth of malt character from the aroma through to the end. Had a wonderfull rich maltyness with toasted biscuit, choc and hints of raisen and some low level earthy hops underlining. Up at 6% it was a rip snorter.
The whole venue looks sensational, lots of room with the brand spanking new brite shiny brewhouse behind a big wall of glass on the right as you walk in then going around to the reasonably long bar with a long glassed door beer fridge fronted cool room in which you can see the 7 brite beer tanks behind shelves of bottled drinks. Going along further from that you see the kitchen which you can see all opened up over the resturant bar so you can see everything going on in there in plain view, everything in the kitchen is decked out in S/S with the same polished copper bands as the brewery. It looks pretty damn cool. We didn't try anything from the kitchen but noted the food looked great and the prices were all only around ten bucks with a half the menu only around $8.50, all the resturant stuff is on there website. I didn't take any pics but there a few small ones on their website, the small pics don't really do the brewery justice though.
Plenty of tables inside and a nice big log fire and out front there is a huge area aswell all decked out with big tables and umbrellas etc. At 10c when we were there we didn't take very many smoke breaks outside but can see come warmer weather......
Anyway just thought i'd post a few tidbits of what I remember and say to everyone to get yourselfs out there. The best way to get there is through hahndorf / woodside making use of the freeway. We did go via magil road and out through the winding hills on the way there but took the otherway home via grumpys and must say that way is much better. It really is a bit of a effort driving the other way when your in a hurry for a beer or two.
Thats about it i think, anyone else been?
Jayse
