Monday 30 July 2012

8 Wired Rewired Brown Ale

First consumed with the staff of the St Kilda Local Taphouse at around 2am in the morning, after a night on many fine premium craft beers, but for some reason I just don't have a great recollection of the properties of this drop from that time. Weird.

The bottle goes on about brown ales being a style that's been both neglected, and used by "the mass brewing companies .. for their most unattractive products". The first point I agree with, the second .. well a quick search of my memory banks at least yields only UK macro producers even attempting this style at all. Brown ales to Aus producers at least are as untouched as barley wines.. perhaps there's a good reason for that.
Lovely pour this - initially gives the impression the head might be a bit fleeting but instead it hangs around nicely, lacing stickily to the side of the glass. It's the colour of dark mahogany, with a tan top.

Yum. This beer's just 5.7% but it's a good strong mouthful of flavour. It's bitter up front for a brown, but this wash of bitterness is soon overtaken by smooth nuttiness from the midsection. Bit of toffee here too before it washes away with a little lingering bitterness.

What's not to love? Really well balanced, interesting, and above all compelling beer that should be appealing to all, brown ale fan or not. Delicious. 8.5

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