Saturday, 7 March 2015

Clare Valley Brewing Company, SA

Kyle’s Favourite: King Kong Stout
Liz’s Favourite: Bull’s Eye Australian Pale Ale


We didn’t technically visit the brewery but checked out the tasting room while we were in Auburn. The lady serving us was pleasant and the décor was rather nice too with there produce and posters of the beer labels displayed around the wooden furnished bar mixed in with old school loungers and sofas. Again, this place was reasonably priced with a $10 tasting platter with a choice of 4 drinks.

We tried the Welease Wodger Wheat Summer Beer, Bull’s Eye Australian Pale Ale, Monkey’s Uncle Red Ale, King Kong Stout and the Insider grape cider thing???! The Welease Wodger was verging on a mild dubbel taste being pretty sweet and bananary in comparison to others we have tried recently. The Bull’s Eye was a great Australian Pale Ale- we are liking galaxy hops! It had a good lingering bitterness. Monkey’s Uncle was a funny one… It was meant to have caramel/ toffee-apple taste but oddly enough we tasted smokiness almost like you get with lapsang souchong - Weird! The King Kong was a very good stout, Kyle got dark toffee flavours while Liz got burnt toast (and yes she likes overdone toast…). It is up there as one of the best stouts we have had. The Insider used to be called a cider but apparently someone complained because it is made with grapes… If you have tried moscato then combine it with the alcohol content of a cider then you are pretty much there. Try it sparingly because it was rather sweet for us.

It does start to feel like we are becoming the beer snobs of the world...

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