How good was this?
Here's a Round Up!
1. Barls / Smokey Schwartz – Yum! Smokey, dark malt taste all over. A bugger about the ride home stirring things up, and a Trois Pistole is currently conditioning.
2. RUM57L your Blue Mountain Lager was so young I could’ve gone straight to jail. She had the potential but not many bubbles yet.
3. Tipsy, your Irish Red Ale was so smooth! Very nice with so much flavour. It was just a really nice beer. Well balance with good mouth feel and taste.
4. Earle a Black Sheep clone: I cannot comment about it being a Black Sheep clone as I’ve never had one. This beer poured with a beautiful, delicate and creamy head and had excellent carbonation. It also produced sensational lacing. Not as exciting a beer as the more hoppy beers received, but it was an enjoyable and tasty beer. Was this a partial, Earle?
5. Big Dave’s BIAB Lean & Hungry APA. The passionfruit tones were bloody glorious. We loved this beer, yes I shared this bottle with Bullfrog and it was bloody marvelous. We were beside ourselves and it reminded me of a Whale ale, only better! I would love to have this stuff on tap at my place. BZ on this drop Big Dave!
6. DrSmurto sent me an Imperial Stout. Unbloodybelievable! It opened with a small, ho hum release of gas, then the escaping aroma is thick. It hinted of something very strong and possibly special. I then poured it, and it was dark, very dark and thick, much like engine oil. The taste was so smooth, the aroma very strong. A small amount of bitterness is tasted as it enters the mouth, a taste similar to Promite that stuff that is very good for you and contains so much Vitamin B. Then just before it slides off the back of the palate, you experience this amazingly unsweetened, dark chocolate flavour. This beer was just amazing! It really was dark chocolate and sticky sweet on the lips. It is a desert beer. I really enjoyed this. I am also certain that this just cannot be bought in a shop! Thank you Doctor. I feel so much better now. BZ for this little beauty.
7. BarrelBoy and his Bush Mallee Bitter. It poured a great head with excellent carbonation producing some lacing with a good mouth feel. A nice bronze colour too. It’s definitely a nice bitter, there’s no doubt about that, and it would be a great session beer. The better half said it was exactly what she likes.
8. emnpaul sent me his a 'Jackie Brown Ale' which had the best mouth feel I’ve probably ever had. Velvet and creamy, quite enjoyable. Paul, I’d like a tad more maltiness & Nelson Sauvin. I reckon this one deserves it and could be a winner. But I am a sucker for anything that’s got munich grain in it.
9. Oliver, once again I am getting those lovely passionfruit tones. It must be the Galaxy Hops being used? A lovely beer and it even had the wife’s approval. A nice beer, which poured a fine and fluffy head and was as clear as a crispy morn. Nice.
10. Timmy I don’t think that was your Nelson Sauvin Lager. I don’t know? It had no signs of Nelson Sauvin and the entire flavor of a Hoegarden. It poured with an excellent, clean white foamy head, great carbonation and a clean golden color. Yet it also had the citrus, lime style flavor with the spices of coriander. ……..and then I had a coriander seed in my mouth. You sent me your lime/coriander brew dude. It was ‘almost’ as good as mine. Nice! ……and it gave me the wobbly boot.
11. BULLFROG’S ‘Battle OF Britain’ went down really well with our Sushi for dinner and even Melissa enjoyed it. Mate, I know that’s one of your favorites, but I still prefer that last one I was drinking at your place. There were similarities but. I think the BoB contained Munich and Nelson Sauvin? There really is something special about AG beer, isn’t there.
This entire experience has been just awesome, and I thank everyone involved for both the opportunity to try your fantastic beers and for the extra beer bottles that have arrived with them.
It really is a very educational and fun prize. Yes, I know there’s more to come.
The only bad thing about winning is, that I have a wife who likes to try the special beers as well.
Fingers crossed for the next beer lotto!