Category: Tasting

Honey on the nose, cloudy, rye comes through malt back bone, slightly bitter finish.

Passion fruit or stonefruit on the nose, carbonation high, full initial taste with a lingering, not over hopped finish.

Clear and crisp, full mouthfeel carbonation forward, slight honey notes, finishing with a hop bite.

Sweet on the nose, great mouth feel, lingering malt. Holds a white head.

Kolsch pale ale
8 jan 2012
4.850 kolsch
420g light toast kolsch

Rainwater – 20l 45 mins to reach 72c
12:15 start mash
Pre boil 1040 at 22c

20g NZ hall 7.6% 45 min
10g NZ hall 7.6% 10 min
10g NZ hall 7.6% 5 min
25ibu

Safale us-05 1/2 pack started in wort of gravity test

1042 og
1008 fg
4.5%
17feb bottled

Bronze agwb may 2012

Ellen’s 18 Mar 12

Creamy head, not much on nose due to age, fruity. Full mouth feel. Subtle hop finish.

Monarch Weissbier
13 mar

3kg 2 row pilsner
2.5kg German wheat
60g acidulated
60g crystal
170g dark Munich

200g 45
50g 15 min 10g orange peel 10g corriander
50g 5 min 10g orange peel 10g corriander
1042 22c
1010 fg
4.3%
24l
Weiss beer yeast
Bottled 25 mar 1012

14.5/30 agwb may 2012
Let too much fizz out rebottling

Malt on the nose, caramel, butterscotch , sweet. Full mouth feel, low carbonation, very rich. Lingering fullness of malt with no hop overtones.
Very drinkable.

Very clean. No hops present, easy drinking. Law mower beer?

First batching using gladfield malt and the waimea hops – hence the hop batch code 04.39.53 on the label.

Very smooth, malt comes through, without any overly hoppy finish.

Very good beer!

Bottled 8 jan 2012

On the nose smells like musty with smoke. mid palate is malt with the smoke pushing through. Empty finish. Past it’s prime.

Citrus on the nose. Little thin mid palate, finishes with a good bitter hop bite that lingers.