Drinks

Some German Beers (Late-ToberFest)

Spaten – Oktoberfest , Lager/Marzen
Augustiner-Brau – Edelstoff, Lager/Dortmunder Export
Paulaner – Oktoberfest Bier, Lager/Marzen/Oktoberfest

Spaten – Oktoberfest, 5.9%, 500ml bottle.
Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu is the brewery. Its a Lager-Marzen-Oktoberfst beer. Its a nice golden lager colour, a nice malty and lager yeast smell, nice head too. Nice back of the tongue bitterness, lager yeast characters are prominent, some mild malt characters, a sweet malt balanced with the bitter hops, some very slight toasty malt flavors in there as well, nothing is overbearing, its all well balanced.

Augustiner – Edelstoff, 5.7%, 500ml bottle.
Augustiner-Bräu. A Lager – European / Dortmunder Export. Lovely head, big lasting, good lager yeast smell, kind of minerally. Taste is light malt in there its noticeable, but its so mild, there’s hops and a nice bitterness but it doesn’t linger, This i have had before, and it is just so clean and crisp and drinkable. The hops and malt are just so balanced and crisp. An awesome beer.

Paulaner -Oktoberfest Bier, 5.8%, 500ml bottle.
Paulaner Brauerei, this is another Lager-Marzen Oktoberfest. Less head, more golden amber colour, sweeter smell. Taste is a bit more bitterness, some sweet malts. This is a lot like the Spaten, with slightly more malt, sweet malts mainly, and a little more hops bitterness, but also this has the mineral aspects of the above Augustiner. Its just good.

Drinks

Some cool beers with horror films

Over the weekend and two tonight, I had some good beers while watching films…

  • BeerFarm & Fervor Native Series Woolya Wah Red Ale
  • Molly Rose Baroness Amber Lager
  • Mash Brewing Black Cat Black IPA
  • 3 Ravens Nitro Nilla Thiccc Shake DIPA
  • 3 Ravens Maango Creamsicle Fruited Sour
  • Pirate Life Boysenberry Dark Sour
Drinks

2 beers with 2 Halloween horror films

Molly Rose – Skyline IPA, 5.7% 375ml can.
This seems like a completely straight up West Coast IPA, smells like sweet fruity hops. Taste is a very straight up classic IPA hops as far as bitterness, very nice and crisp. I don’t really notice any specific malt character even on warming. Like a NEIPA but straight classic hops? Refreshing both as something that’s not too common and also as a pretty great very drinkable beer.

Molly Rose – Shoulders IPA, 7.2% 375ml can.
This is one step up in every way from the Skylight IPA. Stronger more pine resinous smell, a slightly darker colour. The taste is a deeper bitterness (Chinook, Cascade, Centennial, Galaxy). Its not cloying or sweet, beers of this style traditionally go large on the malt to try and “balance” the hop bitterness, and again there’s no real malt character, even when it warms up. A bit more of a sipper at 7.2% but very enjoyable.

Drinks

Some Saturday Beers

Green Beacon – Apricot & Peach Sour. 5% 375ml can.
Nice peach smell and a little sour funk. Its pretty hazy as well, nice head. The taste is mild, there is a hint of apricot, some fermented fruity flavours and a fruity sourness. Nothing crazy. A refreshing sipper. Nice.

Molly Rose Brewing Co – Nitro Persian Coffee, Vegan Desert Stout. 5.2% 375ml can
Awesome coffee smell, like a cup of coffee but also of crushed coffee beans, some dark roasty malts. The coffee smells is fantastic and very fresh smelling, just awesome. The taste and mouthfeel is smooth, theres oats in here giving it a viscocity as well. A really nice big initial hit of coffee, dark and black malt with some bitterness from the malt and also I assume hops. After a few sips theres all kinds of things going on in here, it says cardamon is in there and yeah I guess, I also taste anise/licorice? There’s other stuff I just cant put a thumb on. Cant taste the rosewater or coconut listed, though they drop off pretty fast and this is nearly 2 months old. A great interesting stout even if the additions didn’t shine. This also seems like a rather interesting brewery and brewer, I have one more beer from them now but will def check out more from them.

Molly Rose Brewing Co – When Life Gives you Lemons , Farmhouse Ale. 4.2% 375ml can.
This is, obviously, the other Molly Rose can I have. Straight off the bat its insane lemon into the nose. Its like sherbert, this is crazy. Interesting as hell. NOT a standard farmhouse ale at all. Very fine carbonation, great smooth sourness and mouthfeel. That first crazy lemon scent blast doesn’t follow through into anything overpowering at all. Its crisp, its soft but sharp. This is nice as hell. Not what I was expecting at all.

Drinks

Some beers with horror films

Dainton Brewing – Glazed & Confused, Jam Donut NEIPA. 7% 355ml can.
First hit is strawberry jam, then hoppy strawberry jam? Taste though is just very standard NEIPA with a hint of lactose sweetness, a hint of that jam in the taste. Its OK, I wish they would go large and full-on with these types of beers.

Pirate Life – Dilmah Tea & Biccies, Brown Ale. 5.6% 355ml can.
Smells like a lovely brown ale, nice malty smell. Nice colour, too. The mouthfeel is lighter than the average brown ale, a nice dark strong tea character is definitely present. A strong tea bitterness is there melded with the (New Zealand, unsure which) hops. There’s still some nice dark malt character in there though as well, especially as it warms. With the light carbonation this is very much like an alcoholic strong black tea. Which is kinda weird but nice. Refreshing, almost crisp, for a brown ale!

8 Wired – Flat White, Nitro Coffee Milk Stout. 5.5% 440ml can.
The is smells insanely like coffee., maybe some dark malt, but just heaps coffee. Nice dark colour, nice dense head like a tap beer. And its tastes like a slightly milky coffee. Smooth as hell, minimal carbonation, a slight sweetness, some very light vanilla, just a big coffee taste, dark malts accenting and pumping it up fantastically. If there is hops they are balanced amazingly with the light coffee bitterness.

Drinks

Excellent Kolsch

Brauerei Früh am Dom – Früh Kölsch, 4.8% 500ml can.
Probably one of the best? In my eyes, yes. Its very damn good.
Clear awesome light amber to dark straw colour, great head, lots of spidery lacing. Its dry but light, crisp and fast, then a bit of malt and nice light bitter finish. Nice carbonation. Basic but thats what you want. A great beer.

Drinks

VanderGhinste Roodbruin

Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste – VanderGhinste Roodbruin, 5.5% 250ml bottle.
A Belgian Roodbruin, a red-brown Flanders Sour ale made from blending what I gather is an oud-bruin type base beer that is blended with a Lambic and then aged in oak barrels for 18 months.

The colour is a brown – dark copper, its quite clear with a hint of reddishness. Very light head, just a ring with very mild lacing. Lots of carbonation going on in there. The smell is excellent, a real sour character as opposed to modern kettle sours, oakey barrel notes and a slight malty carmel sweetness. The taste is fantastic, an extremely well balanced caramel malt flavour, a nice sweetness, then a firm but not lingering sourness, before the oakey dryness on the end. Very interesting sweetness that sits well and is enhanced by while enhancing the nice sourness. Extremely drinkable. Really nice, and quite different as well.

Drinks

A Beer

Dainton Brewing – Bloodzilla, Double Blood Orange NEIPA, 8% 355ml can.

This is a throwback to what we just arent getting in NEIPA’s much anymore, its hazy as hell, its big hops flavour and its soft as hell. This is really good, like when the NEIPA thing started before NEIPA just became big hops and Hazy became it own thing for some reason…The soft mouthfeel is there which is sorely missed with this style now days. The blood orange is definitely there, its hard to say if theres rind/pith or its all the hops or what. Theres definitely some malt character in there, maybe crystal or something sweetish going on that just melds well with the bitter. This is a very good “old style” NEIPA style beer.