Can't taste pineapple, not a bad beer though


7%
Made from passion fruit, mildly sweet and good.

Edited by scott21: 9/7/2016 04:19:28 AM

Disappointing. Tasted very similar to Tabasco.



Would prefer more heat and better chili flavor.

Drinking bleach right now.

Has anyone had a chilli beer that had kept a good flavor profile.  I have never seen it work well.

I think chili beer is just a novelty where you are meant to burn your throat. My dad loves the stuff for some reason.

You have good taste!

I've drunk  most of those beers.

Stone and Wood's citrus flavoured Pacific Ale is unlike any other beer apart from Hobart's Brew Shambles Brewery's Summer Ale, which has a passionfruit taste and is similar but different .

Stone and Wood also do a decent Jasper Ale - an amber style ale.

Here are a  few fabulous darker ales - all Tasmanian:

Last Rites' (Dead Man's Revenge) Black IPA.

This beer is so good it blows all other Black IPAs and American Dark Ales out of the water! Sent quite a few home with some mainland mates when they were down here a few weeks ago. 



Ironhouse Milk Stout ( on tap).

Ironhouse Honey Porter (on tap).

Ironhouse Beez Kneez English Porter ( on tap). 

Shambles' Barry White Porter.

Captain Bligh's Huffcap Stout.

Hobart Brewing Company's Porter.

Seven Sheds' Black Inca.

Moo Brew's Imperial Stout.

Moo Brew's Dark Ale ( a better version of White Rabbit Dark Ale).



Ironhouse beers are often very good on tap, but inconsistent in the bottle.




I've drunk beer in 25 countries. This array of Tasmanian dark beers are world class! 

Most of the hops for these dark beers are grown in Tasmania. I'm not sure if they are Ella, Hallertau or Cascade hops?

Good colour!

You are doing a good job, son.

You need a lot of brawn and muscle mass to absorb that strength of beer.

Haven't tasted the Moo Brew Singe Hop yet. Reports have been very good.

You might like to try the unique Moo Brew Belgo - supposedly  a light Belgian Pale Ale, although many think of it as stronger tasting than IPAs and American Pale Ales.

Moo Brew was the top local craft brewery until about 10 new breweries have overtaken them in the last year.

White Rabbit, Cooper's Dark Ale or Stout and Guinness are completely superseded by the dark beers I've listed  a couple of posts ago.

You sound like a talented beer drinker, Heiny!

Is it flat like Guinness, or more effervescent like most local dark beers?

Sculpins are solid. Didn't mind the pineapple but others rave about the grapefruit one but haven't tried it. Ballast point are now imported by Dan murphys so they have a bigger range and in cans too which is far better. 

Someone also mentioned moo brew single hop, very one dimensional and a little lacking. 

Someone also mentioned 4 pines and good taste in the same sentence, without being a bastard, they are the single most overrated brewers in Australia.

Best australian brewers going around at the moment are:
Moon Dog
Blackmans
Pirate Life
Exit
Kaiju
Brewcult
Little Brewing Co
Fortitude
Shananigans

But over neighbors over the ditch at garage project blow them all away. 

I love beer

Haven't tasted many of these beers, but I doubt you've tasted many on my list either. Having said this, I tasted Fortitude's 2.8 % Light Pale Ale.

Wow!

It was sensational for such a low strength alcohol beer!

 I've also tasted an Exit Pale Ale of 3.5% alcohol content, which along with Fortitude's Light Pale Ale and Little Rivers' Dam Busters, are the best Aussie lights I've tasted.
 
Even better is Double Head's Pilsener at 3.4% alcohol content. This is a national bronze medal winner. It is similar quality to Little Creatures Pilsener, Moo Brew Pilsener and Seven Sheds Pilgrim Pilsener, all full strength and the best pilseners I've tasted. Little Creatures and Moo Brew Pilseners have won Aussie national prizes, but Seven Sheds very limited and very pricey limited issue pilsener is even better.

There are some very good craft breweries in satellite suburbs and country areas in Tassie. So some low alcohol beer is a good idea as we need a designated driver. Many of the craft beers at some local breweries are 6% plus, many up to 8% and over, with some up to 12%!


It would be good to have a tasting session, Scubaroo.

Can we have a vote for best beers? I would like to try new stuff and haven't ventured far out of the mainstream beers.

Having tasted one Exit and one Fortitude they were very, very good beers.

On tap a number of Tassie breweries are producing some fabulous stuff, up there with anything I've drunk in Europe. I have not been to the USA for 25 years, but many of their  beers are sensational ATM.

The Tassie list (on tap) are, with a high number of beers that are very good quality in each brewery:

Hobart Brewing Company

Shambles Brewery

Double Head Brewery

Morrison's (apart from their mediocre Irish Stout)

Ironhouse ( ESB Bitter, Mill Draught, Honey Porter, Milk Stout, Whisky Barrel  Aged Stout, Black IPA, Tassie IPA)

Seven Sheds (brewed by the doyen of Aussie beer writers, Willy Simpson, who is becoming increasingly grumpy as the young brewers give him a run for his money)

Bruny Island Brewing ( brewed by Nick Hadlow, a brilliant cheesemaker and the nationally renowned Gourmet Farmer, Matthew Evans' best mate)

I was just in the process of muting you, like I have Munrubenmuz and Gayfish, as you've been accused of being yet another Munrubenmuz multi. 

However, it is unlike Munrub to seek others' opinions on any subject.

Try Moo Brew Belgo - very original.

If you don't like Moo Brew Pilsener, you don't like Pilseners. Other brewers gave up competing against if for a while as it won national award after national award as best pilsener year after year. I think they've diminished the bouquet with the new head brewer though.

The Moo Brew Belgo won a silver at the Sydney Show for Session Beers. You will like it it or loathe it. It is right out on the edge.

I should add a few Moo Brews to this list. This is David Walsh's brewery, the owner of MONA Modern Art Museum.

The Moo Brew Imperial Stout is the best alcohol I've ever drunk. It is triple  fermented in a wooden barrel. At $25 a stubby it is the most expensive alcohol too! I was given a free sample. At 9% alcohol content this is  the best beer I've tasted anywhere in the world .

Moo Brew Pilsener - many drink 5 - 7 of these when they first taste it, it is so smooth.

Moo Brew Dark Ale - was the best going around. Significantly better than White Rabbit Dark Ale, it has been awarded a national bronze. However, recently blown out of the water by Tasmania's Last Rites' Dead Man's Revenge, Black IPA. Sent a whole lot of mates back to Victoria and NSW with this fabulous beer, as they could  find nothing like it at home. 

Moo Brew Belgo - cutting edge, original Belgian Pale Ale. Totally unique, people love it, or do not like it at all.

Moo Brew Saison - only available on tap. Excellent!

A number of other Moo Brews have taken out national bronze medals, but they are no better than many other beers I've tasted.

I'm 100% real memeboy. Now recommend me your most favourite beer so I can get shitfaced after exams.

Also, I owe you an apology for accusing you of trying to troll the forum. Unless you actually were, of course.

I apologise to you if you are not Munrub!

I don't think I've knowingly trolled the forum.


There is such a range of beers, it is hard to know what an individual likes - Golden Lager ( comprising  nearly all mainstream Oz beers is tasteless chemical infused piss in Oz - Fosters, VB, Cascade, Boags, Tooheys, Swan, Emu,  West End, Southark, XXXX). Conversely, there are some superb craft lagers - Knappsteins, Ironhouse (on tap), Shambles (on tap), Matilda Bay Helga.

Then there is  Pilsener  (a lager style beer with more hops and greater bitterness), flat amber ale, effervescent amber ale, Red Ale, Brown Ale, Belgian Ale, American Pale Ale, India Pale Ale,  Saison (Farmhouse Ale),  Porter, Stout, American Dark Ale, Black IPA, Wheat Beer, Hefeweizen, hybrid wheat and amber ale, rye ale, Kolsch, Abbey Ale, and a few others I cannot think of. 

Most  people like golden lagers and sweeter amber ales to start with.

Readily available is James Squire Amber Ale, which is relatively sweet and smooth. Not a bad one to start with.

Also, James Squire Forty Lashes is a half wheat and half  pale ale and is common and accessible . This is popular with young drinkers I know. Wheat beer is often sweeter than other beers.

Another lighter style  amber ale is  Little Creatures' Rogers, at 3.7%. It is a little more watery than the heavier amber ales I like, but well balanced and smooth.

For a lager try Matilda Bay Helga.

The most bitter beers are IPAs,  Black IPAs and usually, but not  always, Imperial Stouts.

If you are legal age and down in this neck of the woods, PM me and I'll take you out for a session at local craft  breweries . I willingly encourage a new generation of drinkers to partake in craft beer. Sometimes it can take sampling  9 beers from one craft brewery before a drinker likes one.

It's intereting, alot of local brewers stay clear of doing pilsners, they are very delicate and very hard to master from what I've been told. 
Pilsner urquell still seems to be the leader but sixpoints brewerys (u.s) the crisp is my favorite however the local brewer in torquay (blackmans) did an imperial pilsner with camden (uk) and it was sensational!
I've had all of moo brews core range including the belgo, they seem solid but nothing has really blown my mind. 
I hope i don't come off snobby, i hate beer snobs, i like to try lots of stuff, but love a beer i can drink all day also...  I'm not a fan of vb, Carlton etc (though will drink in certain situations).
Ill give most things a go but never had a chilli beer that was any good, the brewery we had our wedding reception did a mussel stout that was terrible and the most outrageous beer I've had was brewdogs, tactical nuclear penguin... the price being the outrageous point. 

Every time I've tried alcohol it's tasted like crap, which is funny because my dad's an alcoholic. Must not have received the genes that turn alcohol into a pleasant experience for the taste buds.

Its funny how you're taste buds develop as you get older. I've never gotten on the coffee train, can't stand it, though i can drink stouts etc that have coffee notes, i have a feeling its the hot drink deal though, have no issues with the caffeine or the bitterness its the fact it's hot. 
I'm that guy that goes out for coffee and gets a milkshake.

In the case of coffee, beer and also tea, it took me a few tries to get used to the taste and eventually enjoy it.

It is difficult to do a Pilsener and it is quite expensive.

Given we don't like the VBs,  Carlton, XXX etc, denotes both of us as beer snobs!

Haha yeah well maybe. I can't help myself... i will go out of my way to have good beer. I don't know the ins and outs of it all but i know what tastes good. 
There are so many good brewers around i honestly don't know how people can drink all that megaswill rubbish.

Apparently some people can't discern the difference in taste.

A mate of mine is like this. Behind my back he rolls his eyes when I rave abut the quality of beer, when he cannot taste the difference. Yet when I gave him some left over VB   another mate had left me, whilst I drank premium Tassie craft beer at the same time, he was pissed off he was drinking supposedly inferior quality !

Once one gets a taste for the good stuff, it is hard to go back. My point of reference is that I've drunk two excellent beers from two breweries you rave about.

Massive craft brew fan since I was first introduced to it at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Sydney.

I've drunk probably well over a thousand different types of beers since then in probably 30+ countries but I'm still happy to have a Tooheys New at the pub when I roll in on a Friday night.

Love craft brew, actively seek it out, plan holidays around it but will happily drink New, Carlton Draught, VB or any of the so-called 'megaswill' beers.

Cannot stand beer wankers/snobs who rave on and on about hop astringency, coffee tones, leather wafts and bouquet of wet dog.  The fact that you 'like it' is all that matters.  You don't need to know how a statue was carved to appreciate the beauty of the sculpture.

Currently have a 5 litre Paulener Weissbeer keg in the fridge, 6-pack of tiger, 6 pack of Wild Yak.

I'll tell you this for nothing most craft brew in Australia is served well below the temperature it should be served at.  The poor old brewer fights between trying to get his beautiful tasty hand crafted beer appreciated whilst balancing up the Australian demand for an ice cold bevvy.
 .

Yeah... i totally get what your saying. If my budget doesn't allow for craft and its one of those rare nights thats going to be big, i will drink carlton or whatever and ill be fine with it, i know what I'm getting myself in for when i buy a vb or whatever but 9 times out of 10 im going to try and go for a craft beer. I guess I'm lucky in the sense that most mates, male and female are all into craft so that always good. 
Having said that id never buy slabs of carlton, vb etc as i would rather not drink. 
Ive lost count of the beers I've tried, used to write them down then got into just tagging them in untappd but yeah, ill comment on what it may smell or taste like but well its just about enjoying some beers. I totally get the whole sip and savour thing, which is what ill do at home but i can't sit there and say this funky saison has notes of 8 year old socks in summer salad...
As for how craft beer is treated in pubs, i guess once you know how to drink your beers you can plan ahead, ie: in a brewbar in torquay they have a sign saying that their stout is served colder than it should be drunk so be patient. 

My fridge currently has
6x coopers pale
4x brewdog punks
4x ballast point grunion
1x bacchus blood buccaneer
2x moa session pales

Plus the sister in law got me a beer advent calendar. 
Looking forward to Christmas as that's where the wife goes crazy and my best mate sends stuff over from Spain. 

Sweet as. Your sister-in-law is a champ.

Will just clarify that I really enjoy megaswill if it's on tap.  Cold, frothy megaswill in a cold scooby doo on a hot day can't be beat.  When you're up for a sesh a lot of craft beers are hard going if you drink more than a couple.

A perfect example is that Paulaner Weissbeer.  Me and a mate drank one of those kegs the other night.  By the 3rd or 4th schooner I was over it. 

Yeah I've picked up a few of those paulaners during oktoberfest at aldi... for me they are a great session beer, they aren't too offensive and find it quite smashable.
The main thing about having a session on craft for me is the price. I could drink brewdogs - dead pony all day but for a mid strength beer youre looking at $20 a 4 pack here in geelong... go back 12 months ago and it was $15 a 4 pack. Go to a brewdog bar in the uk and its £4 a pint. The thing i hate here is we get stung a massive price hike for foreign craft but cop the same for local craft because of the taxes, meanwhile wineries of the same size get massive tax breaks and flood the market.