Whats In The Glass (commercial)

[reviled]

as for the little creatures pale ale? what are you guys smoking when you drink that ....its like a bottle of vegemite filth maybe my pallet has been infected by megaswill!

Wow, vegemite?? I dont know how you can get that from a heap of hops, but each to their own, maybe you just dont like hops? Or flavour?

I used to hate hoppy beers a couple of years ago, they reminded me of brushing my teeth and drinking a beer at the same time, but my pallat has evolved and now I can taste the subtle (or not so subtle) flavours that hops give off, and its got to the point where I now crave the good stuff and accept no compromise :icon_drool2:

 

[jdsaint]

Maybe I will get their soon!

 

[reviled]

Maybe I will get their soon!

Id just try as many different and new beers as you can, there are so many beers out there its not funny and no way youll ever be able to try them all, but you can sure as hell try

 

[christmasbender]

this is one tasty sipping beer (murray's wild thing imperial stout - 10%). believe they're as rare as hens teeth though (no pun / reference to scruffy's post intended). if you ever see one of these in a bottlo and you're an imperial stout drinker or if you just want to give your tastebuds a deep tissue flavor massage then pick it up and buy it.

i got 2 bottles at the start of the year. had one then and it tasted great. now after cellaring for an amazing 9ish months i'm drinking the 2nd and i can safely say it still tastes great.

feel free to quote me on my complex tasting notes

cheers

christmasbender

 

[reviled]

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this is one tasty sipping beer (murray's wild thing imperial stout - 10%). believe they're as rare as hens teeth though (no pun / reference to scruffy's post intended). if you ever see one of these in a bottlo and you're an imperial stout drinker or if you just want to give your tastebuds a deep tissue flavor massage then pick it up and buy it.

i got 2 bottles at the start of the year. had one then and it tasted great. now after cellaring for an amazing 9ish months i'm drinking the 2nd and i can safely say it still tastes great.

feel free to quote me on my complex tasting notes

cheers

christmasbender

OMG, all I can say is :icon_drool2: IMO, best RIS EVER!!!!!

I met a bloke from Brisbane at the NZ beer festival, he smuggled in a couple of bottles of this and it was absolutely devine! It had been in his bag all day getting knocked around and it was warm as, but DAMN, it was so good!! I remember tasting raisins in a big way! This wouldve been around 4-6 months ago.. So drinkable as well!!

 

[Bribie G]

• get a filter
• the initial hop flavour is so similar it's scary
• however with the real thing the after hop lasts for about three times longer and is fantastic
• colour adjustment required
• I'm seventy percent there

The real thing has almost a twang of 'tobacco' in the hops if such a thing is possible.

Work in progress. Holy grail

 

[wyatt_girth]

as for the little creatures pale ale? what are you guys smoking when you drink that ....its like a bottle of vegemite filth maybe my pallet has been infected by megaswill!

I finally talked my little brother into trying this and he called me up and said the same thing - vegemite in a bottle. I told him this was not how it was supposed to be and so he took it back and swapped it for some other lifeless filth. It turned him off and so again I convinced him to give it another go and he got the same thing.
Damn shame...We are sharin a ride to Pearl Jam concert next month and I am gonna try to educate him once more.

 

[bum]

Meantime IPA - I am enjoying this beer immensely. It is a little outside my vocabulary as yet so I'll keep the review very brief. Firm and lasting (but maybe slightly subdued all things considered) bitterness. Somewhat spicy, accentuated by a little warming alcohol at the end. Very slight citrus in there maybe? Despite the fact that I cannot make...good...words...about it I suspect this one has just snuck into my top 10.

Anyone got a rough idea of how it is built?

 

[Ross]

Meantime IPA - I am enjoying this beer immensely. It is a little outside my vocabulary as yet so I'll keep the review very brief. Firm and lasting (but maybe slightly subdued all things considered) bitterness. Somewhat spicy, accentuated by a little warming alcohol at the end. Very slight citrus in there maybe? Despite the fact that I cannot make...good...words...about it I suspect this one has just snuck into my top 10.

Anyone got a rough idea of how it is built?

grain, MO, Munich & Carahell. Hops, heaps of Fuggles & EKG.
One of my all time favourite beers.

cheers Ross

 

[bum]

Excellent! Cheers for that. You can probably expect a similar looking order in the not-too-distant.

 

[O'Henry]

Meantime IPA - I am enjoying this beer immensely. It is a little outside my vocabulary as yet so I'll keep the review very brief. Firm and lasting (but maybe slightly subdued all things considered) bitterness. Somewhat spicy, accentuated by a little warming alcohol at the end. Very slight citrus in there maybe? Despite the fact that I cannot make...good...words...about it I suspect this one has just snuck into my top 10.

Anyone got a rough idea of how it is built?

+1. I found this beer so drinkable and the level of alcohol very well masked. Well made.

 

[Kai]

Bloody good beer, Meantime IPA. A very good brewery.

Myself, sitting back with a glass of White Rabbit dark ale.

 

[reviled]

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• get a filter
• the initial hop flavour is so similar it's scary
• however with the real thing the after hop lasts for about three times longer and is fantastic
• colour adjustment required
• I'm seventy percent there

The real thing has almost a twang of 'tobacco' in the hops if such a thing is possible.

Work in progress. Holy grail

No need for a filter IMO bribie, your one looks good enough

Also that tobacco twang might be a bit of fuggles??

 

[Bribie G]

No need for a filter IMO bribie, your one looks good enough

Also that tobacco twang might be a bit of fuggles??

AHA, yes I'm brewing one (mashing as we speak) today and using Fuggles Plugs, EKG pellets and Styrian Plugs, so we'll see what happens.

 

[reviled]

AHA, yes I'm brewing one (mashing as we speak) today and using Fuggles Plugs, EKG pellets and Styrian Plugs, so we'll see what happens.

:icon_drool2:

 

[fraser_john]

Lagunitas IPA, great drop. Warned SWMBO that this pic was going on the site when I took the picture, did not seem to faze her

 

[bconnery]

Picked up an 8 pack of mini Flying Dog beers at a club raffle...
Didn't take pictures so these are borrowed from around the place...

Double Pale Ale. A big beer in all respects. Strong Malt, citrus hop aroma and flavour but very well balanced. A dangerous beer at 10.5% and very drinkable.


Tripel. Nice tripel, well balanced again.


Imperial Porter
Very dark beer. Nice roast. Layers of darker malts competing with citrus hop aroma. A big flavour hit. A very tasty beer.


Horn Dog Barleywine. Great big hoppy beer with great rich malt flavours again. Superbly balanced.

 

[glennheinzel]

Just got back from two weeks in NZ. Had a great time over there, but unforunately the early beer tastings were a write off thanks to sinusitis. Whilst I couldn't get a lot of hop flavour/aroma, I could pick up bitterness and other flavours.

Emerson's Book Binder. Easy drinking session beer.

New Belgium Fat Tire. Easy drinking. Yes... New Belgium Fat Tire. Thanks to www.beerstore.co.nz for a lot of these initial beers in NZ.

Russian River Damnation. Very Duvel like. Great beer.

North Coast Brewing Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. Another really good beer.

 

[glennheinzel]

Avery IPA. This is where the sinusitis was hurting me. I wasn't getting much hop flavour/aroma.

Deschutes Inversion IPA

Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA

Green Flash West Coast IPA

Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA. Bitterness was quite muted so it was either very well balanced or perhaps I had an older bottle (where the bitterness had faded).

Epic Armegeddon IPA

Renaissance Double IPA. Great level of bitterness (and second only to the following beer). By the way, these guys brew awesome beers. Will have to make it to Blenheim someday to check out the brew scene there.

Green Flash Imperial IPA. Great bitterness. My dentist will be wondering where the enamel on my teeth went. PS. I think this beer helped my brother go through a Lupulin Threshold Shift

 

[glennheinzel]

Macs Sassy Red. As per my non-beer geek brothers words (after having gone through a Lupulin thresholdshift the night before) "tastes watery".

Mangatainoka Dark (think this is made by DB Breweries). Was supposed to be some sort of East India Ale. Probably an okay session beer. This was from the Martinborough Hotel (a bit over an hour east of Wellington). By now the sinusitis was starting to clear up. On the plus side, the sinusitis meant that Rotorua was an enjoyable experience!

Emersons Pilsner. Got a lot of passionfruit from this beer. Didn't really enojoy it as it seemed a bit too full bodied and not very "crisp".

Tui. Wasn't too bad.

Epic Pale Ale. My initial thoughts was that this was along the lines of LCPA. ie, Interesting APA.

Renaissance APA. These guys are knocking out some great beers. This one is fairly dry and sessionable.