We should have known that it was to good to be true, for as the barman poured the first 4 beers what came out was 4 glasses of foam and the barman swearing at the taps for being crap before heading to another font for the last 2 beers. We should of asked for the first 4 beers to be replaced and next time we will.
The first beer they offer is a Draught Ale, a very pale straw coloured wheat beer without using the wheat beer yeast that gives it, it's balanced flavour. This beer has a taste that doesn't gel with too much bitterness and nothing to back it up.
Next is their Koelsch, a plae straw colour, this koelsch has a pleasantly hoppy grapefruity taste that screams out typical german Koelsch.
Along comes their Wit beer, golden and cloudy don't be put off by this as it's the way that the yeast and malt work in this style with some clove and orange this spicy typical wheat beer is interesting to try.
Now comes the Rust Amber ale with a nice hop aroma but an over powering malt (I think crystal malt) taste, your then left with a mouth puckering bitter after taste.
The Porter comes along and has a good espresso and chocolate nose and again just seems typical porter.
Longboard is theur seasonal ale with hints of cut grass and a bit of citrus and refreshingly lite bitterness although the wife thinks it "smells like an armpit and tastes like she washed socks in it" .
All these beers are brewed off site and when asked all staff could say was it was somewhere in north Wollongong, It seems that rather than make a name for their beers they are riding on the back of the craft beer name and having it brewed to the middle of the style with no individuality of expression of who they are or their location.
Steve's pick - Koelsch Wife's pick as the runt of the litter - Longboard
Tasting panels 3 200ml glasses for $7
Contracted brewed off site No tours
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I thought THEY ALL SUCKED too. The wife is right about the seasonal "Longboard" too.
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