jayse
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I had a few beers at a joint earlier and after a quick choof wrote a little story about it here it is....
I had been advised there was a beer at the jolly miller called a red ale something something one night by a punter at brewboys, on questioning he didn't know what it was or from who except it was a victorian red ale of some sort and he and his mates llked it and they were selling it cheap.
Fair enough so I go down thinking the jolly miller was the one next to the back of the ent centre but no that was called the joiners, then I think maybe its the one around the corner, oh wait a minute I have seen that geelong brewery sign out the front of there and haven't heard anything at all good about them really and they are not that well known or talked about amoung the community. anyway might aswell go in and try it since I have made the effort to get this far.
Turns out it is actually quite well brewed and a nice enough irish red ale, way to cold and way too carbonated and if it had not been so freezing cold I wonder if they could pour it, as is it was that cold they filled the glass perfectly full just the way I love it without any trouble at all.
The carbonation with the malt character had a almost belgian like mouthfeel with the reasonble malt character and tiny bubble spritz. More then hints of crystal malts and reasonbly clean with some nice hop character, all in all worth a try.
Nice hop character, nice bitterness and 20 min type addition character, bit fruity in flavour was the hop character and there was some reasonble fruity esters, after a couple this fruit come out a little like there was some rasberry in the beer with the combo of hop fruit, yeast esters and crystal malt like toffee sweetness.
The foam was quite exceptional and super stable and over all a reasnbly well brewed beer, I had 4 pints just to be sure.
Had a brief chat with the barman but took all he said with a grain of salt as to be honest he seemed to be just bluffing his way through what he knew about it, apparntly they actually own the pub, searching the net on southern bay who brew the beer now and they have a range and this pub had no other of their beers so somethings a bit suspect there.
The pub itself is quite a sight and reminded me of what pubs actually used to look like when I was only a child, no renovations since the 70's even the pokie room looked unrenovated and just a old school ladys lounge that they had fitted with pokie machines, I kinda liked that and it brought back many memories of how pubs once were. Has a big beer garden out back and the prices on the menu looked good, checking adelaide pub reviews and it has had a few good reviews for the food and as a good spot for pre ent centre gig drinks, although the front bar is only small and I can imagine would be packed to the rafters before a gig such as metallica coming up.
the southern bay website has info that their brewlength is 140hl, that is quite huge and I wonder if that is actully a fermentor load using two 70hl brews back to back, who knows? not me, as I said not much info around about this and I know nothing.
Anyway if anyone knows anything about these guys I'd like to hear it, the ranga supprised me and while it won't impress modern beer geeks spoilt for choice I thought it was quite well brewed.
Another interesting thing is ranga doesn't even seem to be mentioned on the southern bay web site, they just have a few beers under the name bearings. I know they contract brew but the beer 'ranga' doesn't seem to have a actuall home on the net.
I am sure they have a good brewer at the helm so someone must know him and them so any info out there brewers?
I did see a big black merc with southern bay in the window once and wondered how any microbrewer has money for such a car but on the little info I have gathered in the last hour or so it seems this is a major co-operation corp? not a microbrewery as we all know it, certianly the claimed brewlength and the extensive bottling equipment this place does look a cut above most.
So anyway if your driving past on your way home and not in a perticular hurry to get home to the wife/partner or children then drop in for a 5 buck pint of this and let us know what you think.
I had been advised there was a beer at the jolly miller called a red ale something something one night by a punter at brewboys, on questioning he didn't know what it was or from who except it was a victorian red ale of some sort and he and his mates llked it and they were selling it cheap.
Fair enough so I go down thinking the jolly miller was the one next to the back of the ent centre but no that was called the joiners, then I think maybe its the one around the corner, oh wait a minute I have seen that geelong brewery sign out the front of there and haven't heard anything at all good about them really and they are not that well known or talked about amoung the community. anyway might aswell go in and try it since I have made the effort to get this far.
Turns out it is actually quite well brewed and a nice enough irish red ale, way to cold and way too carbonated and if it had not been so freezing cold I wonder if they could pour it, as is it was that cold they filled the glass perfectly full just the way I love it without any trouble at all.
The carbonation with the malt character had a almost belgian like mouthfeel with the reasonble malt character and tiny bubble spritz. More then hints of crystal malts and reasonbly clean with some nice hop character, all in all worth a try.
Nice hop character, nice bitterness and 20 min type addition character, bit fruity in flavour was the hop character and there was some reasonble fruity esters, after a couple this fruit come out a little like there was some rasberry in the beer with the combo of hop fruit, yeast esters and crystal malt like toffee sweetness.
The foam was quite exceptional and super stable and over all a reasnbly well brewed beer, I had 4 pints just to be sure.
Had a brief chat with the barman but took all he said with a grain of salt as to be honest he seemed to be just bluffing his way through what he knew about it, apparntly they actually own the pub, searching the net on southern bay who brew the beer now and they have a range and this pub had no other of their beers so somethings a bit suspect there.
The pub itself is quite a sight and reminded me of what pubs actually used to look like when I was only a child, no renovations since the 70's even the pokie room looked unrenovated and just a old school ladys lounge that they had fitted with pokie machines, I kinda liked that and it brought back many memories of how pubs once were. Has a big beer garden out back and the prices on the menu looked good, checking adelaide pub reviews and it has had a few good reviews for the food and as a good spot for pre ent centre gig drinks, although the front bar is only small and I can imagine would be packed to the rafters before a gig such as metallica coming up.
the southern bay website has info that their brewlength is 140hl, that is quite huge and I wonder if that is actully a fermentor load using two 70hl brews back to back, who knows? not me, as I said not much info around about this and I know nothing.
Anyway if anyone knows anything about these guys I'd like to hear it, the ranga supprised me and while it won't impress modern beer geeks spoilt for choice I thought it was quite well brewed.
Another interesting thing is ranga doesn't even seem to be mentioned on the southern bay web site, they just have a few beers under the name bearings. I know they contract brew but the beer 'ranga' doesn't seem to have a actuall home on the net.
I am sure they have a good brewer at the helm so someone must know him and them so any info out there brewers?
I did see a big black merc with southern bay in the window once and wondered how any microbrewer has money for such a car but on the little info I have gathered in the last hour or so it seems this is a major co-operation corp? not a microbrewery as we all know it, certianly the claimed brewlength and the extensive bottling equipment this place does look a cut above most.
So anyway if your driving past on your way home and not in a perticular hurry to get home to the wife/partner or children then drop in for a 5 buck pint of this and let us know what you think.
