Matso’s Brewery

Kyle’s Favourite: Mango Beer
Liz’s Favourite: Smokey Bishop

BEER 100!

Matso’s was the place where we toasted our 100^th beer, which turned out to be the first beer we tried. Beer 100 was Matso’s Chango beer! Confused? Well it was a mix of their chilli and mango beer... Not what we were expecting! Matso’s Brewery is known for their flavoured light beers, not like your heavy Belgian flavoured equivalents and they do it rather well.

This was our last brewery for a while so we did another tasting platter just to be different… We tried:
Chango- think spicy mango chutney that you couldn’t have too much of.

Chilli Beer- like a medium curry, it was a builder and quite dry tasting.

Ginger Beer- smelt gingery but didn’t have much of a gingery taste.

Lychee Beer- very syrupy with an overpowering lychee-ness.

Mango Beer- sweet and mango-y with a beer aftertaste. Good but again moderation!

Session Ale- very weak on the flavour front almost like beer water.

Pindan Pale Ale- mild pale ale with a slight hoppiness.

Pearler’s Pale Ale- hoppy with a bit of wheatiness, cloudy appearance.

Smokey Bishop- by far the most flavourful, a slightly smokey dark larger.

From the top centre: Chango, Chilli, Ginger, Lychee, Mango, Pindan, Pearler's, Session and finally Smokey Bishop. They could have ordered it better flavour-wise...

Apart from the Smokey Bishop, the normal brews were average to below average. The Session ale was probably the worst beer we have tried on this trip, as it just didn’t taste of anything! However Matso’s is more about the flavoured beer and that is what they do well. The Mango beer would be our pick of the bunch. A few sat outside in the sun would be wonderful, but too many could get sickly.