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Cascade beer kits
Posted: Wednesday May 25, 2005 10:22 pm
by Friar
Wandered into the local Coles supermarket today and passed by the home brew section and noticed some new beers.
Cascade breweries out of Tassie has three different cans up for sale a Draught, a Pale ale and a Lager.
A bit exy at $13.99 ea compared to the Coopers and the generics beside it.
Very good label presentation.
anyone seen or tried these before?
Friar
Posted: Wednesday May 25, 2005 10:29 pm
by Hrundi V Bakshi
The label is the best part of the deal, I think.
I was brewing one Golden Harvest as a pilot batch for my kegs. Tasted fantastic two weeks old brewed with all malt, fistful of hops and a S-04 yeast. Some bottles I was finding under the piles of newer beers the other day was tasting like VB.
I understand they also make a "Chocolate Mahogany" porter, which might make sense to sell at this time of year isn't it?
Posted: Wednesday May 25, 2005 10:31 pm
by Friar
H
nuff said
F
Posted: Wednesday May 25, 2005 10:31 pm
by Oliver
Posted: Wednesday May 25, 2005 11:01 pm
by Friar
thanks O
Posted: Thursday May 26, 2005 10:39 pm
by kitkat
Posted: Thursday May 26, 2005 10:42 pm
by Friar
Thanks
Double K
Posted: Friday May 27, 2005 12:51 pm
by the Baron
The fact that the label is not paper glued on but is actually on the tin means you can patch them up and give them to little kids as a money tin for a present when you are finished emptying the contents, they are none the wiser as the tin looks not bad.
Posted: Friday May 27, 2005 6:48 pm
by gregb
Did any one read the blurb on the Choc Mahogany Porter?
I was unsure if they were describing a pub or a bordello.
Greg
Posted: Sunday Jun 04, 2006 8:25 pm
by Oscar
gregb wrote:Did any one read the blurb on the Choc Mahogany Porter?
I was unsure if they were describing a pub or a bordello.
Greg
Haha, true that, gregb!
I was thinking the same - have one in the beer cupbaord as we speak.
Went on about Ruby Carmody, but gave no idea of what the sh!t tastes like.
Posted: Sunday Jun 04, 2006 8:41 pm
by Wassa
I don't care what anyone says, I have brewed several Golden Harvest lagers and Mahoany Porters and I have found them to be excellent.
The golden Harvest I usually make as an all malt brew with 1 kg of LDME and Hallertau finishing hops and reckon it is one of the best lagers around when brewed with a good yeast.
The Porter is the basis of my favorite wineter brew which is a choc honey porter, with DDME and liquid chocolate malt, Cascade hops and brewed with Safale and again is exceptional.
It all comes down to time, brewing methos and individual taste.
I like the Cascade kits and will keep on using them.
Posted: Sunday Jun 04, 2006 9:27 pm
by dags64
I have done the Mahogany Porter with some honey and goldings hops, came out very nice
I did the Pale Ale with the brewcraft Pale Ale enhancer and very tasty after 3 months
did the spicy ghost and easily the worst home brew I have done
Posted: Wednesday Jun 07, 2006 9:56 am
by Phantom
I have to admit these are quite good and i certainly have had no problems with them.
I normally add the LDME and am about to ut another lager down using the kit yeast,.
Pretty simple and builds to an excellent beer almost as good as those ESB lagers!!!
Phantom
Posted: Saturday Jun 17, 2006 6:04 pm
by Oliver
gregb wrote:Did any one read the blurb on the Choc Mahogany Porter?
I was unsure if they were describing a pub or a bordello.
Greg
Here's the blurb off the website. I gather it's the same as the label. Interesting reading indeed.
Oliver
In a backstreet of early Hobart Town, Ruby Carmody runs the Officers Club.
Amidst the dark alleys and meagre pickings of colonial life, Ruby's is a haven of rich, scarlet textures and refined pleasures. Here, men of rank meet to enjoy the creature comforts that mark their freedom. Cigar aromas linger on polished mahogany and deep, leather lounges. Laughter and conversation flow as barmaids top up tankards with Ruby's famous house special.
In a rear, veiled room, ladies toil over the secret, tantalising brew. Its body of rich, roasted barley and deliciously sinful chocolate fills the senses and satisfies the soul. Like the brewers themselves, the beer is delicate and feminine, yet wickedly flirty and buxom.
A complex layering of flavours unveils a highly desirable brew.