Great Oak
McCashin's Brewery
- From:
- McCashin's Brewery
- New Zealand
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.9 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 05, 2013
- Added:
- Dec 05, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
2.9/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.9/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Brewed for GABS Festival in Melbourne 2013. Called a 'red/brown' ale on the booklet; I've classified it as a red because that's more how it came out.
Pours a rich red colour, clear with slight off-white head. Webbed out a bit but dissipates quickly. Not very brown, and a bit listless-looking.
Smells very sweet, with buttery caramel notes and a big whiff of medicinal phenols. Not much else to it, just mediciney-sweet. Not hugely appealing.
Taste is dry, and grainy. Nutty malt upfront with oatmeal and a touch of pecan, develops some slight toffee flavour on the mid-palate before moving into woody territory - oak and cedar wood with a touch of sawdust. Remains sweet throughout, and doesn't really go anywhere.
Body is fine, fluid with a bit of mouth presence.
I don't really get a 'great oak' character, tastes and feels a little underattenuated. Certainly underwhelming.
Dec 05, 2013Pours a rich red colour, clear with slight off-white head. Webbed out a bit but dissipates quickly. Not very brown, and a bit listless-looking.
Smells very sweet, with buttery caramel notes and a big whiff of medicinal phenols. Not much else to it, just mediciney-sweet. Not hugely appealing.
Taste is dry, and grainy. Nutty malt upfront with oatmeal and a touch of pecan, develops some slight toffee flavour on the mid-palate before moving into woody territory - oak and cedar wood with a touch of sawdust. Remains sweet throughout, and doesn't really go anywhere.
Body is fine, fluid with a bit of mouth presence.
I don't really get a 'great oak' character, tastes and feels a little underattenuated. Certainly underwhelming.
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