Brewed with Dutch cocoa and vanilla. Terrible head, but a great beer.
This was six months old when we drank it; when younger it was a Beer of the Year contender. Not any more.
Geoff: “This tastes like Tia Maria.”

Malty, tasty, rich and delicious. An excellent beer.

Aged in French oak. Smells like raspberries and currents, plums and ginger. It has a sensational long-lasting head.

“Christmas pudding in a bottle,” claims the label. Finally, a beer that lives up to its label's claims!

Guest reviewer Gav: “Smooth. I can drink this.”
Oliver reckoned it was a touch astringent.

We were to taste 28 beers this day. This was the eighth, and up until then the best we'd tried.
Geoff: “Is there nothing that a bit of Saaz hops can't do?”
Oliver: “Pale and tasty.”

Geoff: “What's that one? It tastes like a dirty lager. Urrgh. It is a dirty lager. Tastes just like Foster's.”
Guest reviewer Gav: “It tastes fantastic, but that's because I've just had four wheat beers.” (This session just served to reinforce Gav's hatred of wheat beers.)

Mrs Oliver: “Smells clean.”
“They've tried and they've failed. They started with all the best intentions but didn't get there.”
Highly (and that's not to say well) carbonated.

Guest reviewer Gav: “Chimay's little brother.”
Magnificent, long-lasting head. Delicious.
Geoff: “It's 4.6% but tastes like a 6.4% beer. Sensational.”
Mrs Oliver: “It's a good beer."”

Deep amber/copper colour. Highly hopped and malty, with a high alcohol content, as you'd expect from an IPA.
Guest reviewer Gav at 4.30pm, halfway through the 28 beers we'd eventually taste that day: “Is it the light fading or is the beer just getting darker.” The beer was just getting darker.

Oliver: “I quite like this beer.”
Geoff: “It's not bad.”
Guest reviewer Gav: “It's good.”
Oliver: “It has an intriguing smell, like something herbaceous, but not hops.”

Heady. On the initial pour there was 5mm of beer and 10cm of froth.
Disgusting. There's no one word for it, but astringent and sour are just two of the adjectives that spring to mind.
On tap at the brewery this was OK, so our only conclusion is that this was off.
Mrs Oliver: “Not right. Not right at all.”
Guest reviewer Gav: “Tastes like spew.”

Oliver: “Caramel nose, caramel and banana taste.”
Not a great beer.
Guest reviewer Gav: “I still don't like wheat beer.” While Gav is adamant that he doesn't like wheat beer, this day's offerings would have done nothing to help convince him that there are good wheat beers out there.

Smells delicious and sweeet. Tastes bitter and tasty.
Geoff: “The boys can make good beer.”

Guest reviewer Gav: “That's worse than the wheat beer we've had today.” Which is saying something because they really were crap.
Oliver: “The smell makes me feel sick. Smells like Geoff's No.41 Bockin' Good Beer.”
Geoff: “I'm really not that fussy, but that's …”
Oliver: “Light on. I'm not as offended by it as Gav, but it's lacking in taste and body.”

“Based on the traditional style of an Irish Foreign Export Stout”, apparently.
Unfortunately, this beer is all wrong. It just not good. It's promising on the nose, but that's the best thing about it, sadly. Slightly astringent.
Guest reviewer Gav: “Smells awful.”
Mrs Oliver: “Smells OK, it just tastes like shit.”
Geoff: “If I brewed this it would be rated a failure.”
A tip-out.

“Traditional Polish taste,” proclaims the label. Darker than other Eastern European pilsners that we tasted on this day, Zywiec, Ekstra, Karlovacko, Obolon Lager and Obolon Premium. A hint of honey on the nose.

Apparently Kiev is one of the most polluted places on the planet. This beer, therefore, may kill us. Oliver's lady comments: “It smell's like cat's piss. There's something uric about it.”

Consistent with Australian beers in that the “premium” is the inferior beer. Pale and less uric than the Premium.

Smells like chocolate. Tastes like chocolate. Smooth and delicious.

Is Moorilla Estate the brewery of the decade, given it also produces the outstanding Pale Ale and Wheat Beer?

Champagne posing as beer. Sweet and not bitter. (Give us a break … this was the 13th, and last, beer of the tasting session!)