Hurricane Head Lager
Pinnacle Drinks

A Christmas present in 2023, drunk in February 2024.

I note that the other review as of February 2024 refers to the clear-glass bottled version. I'm drinking a canned version, which might account for the wild disparity in marks.

L: Crystal-clear golden yellow with a very long-lasting, fluffy white head. Lots of carbonation moves slowly up the glass. Vast amounts of lacing are left on the way down. This is a very good-looking beer.

S: Light, bready malt and maybe the slightest sour mash note, but otherwise very neutral.

T: The beer drinks very cleanly. There's a slightly sweet, dried biscuit malt base and a light floral, bitter accompaniment. The beer ends very dry and quickly fades to the slightest ghost of a sweet note. The beer is marketed as clean and crisp and one to break a thunderous thirst, and they've hit the nail on the head: this beer is tasty, very easy-drinking and designed for quick - and likely voluminous - consumption. While this might be dismissed as just another faux-craft lager, it doesn't fall for any of the usual faux-craft lager traps of being overbearingly sweet or so lifeless that you'd never consider drinking a second. This is a well-made lager.

M: As per the points above about drinkability, the mouthfeel here is pillow-soft, carbonation is minimal and carbonic prickle is non-existent.

O: I didn't expect to be impressed by this, but the presentation and clean, crisp drinkability of this beer very quickly won me over.

Cheers!
#467

Load of rubbish, poor/cheap bottle, a clear bottle is Queensland! Why, the aroma is one of the worse around, taste thankfully is better than the aroma otherwise this would be straight in the bin. It's just a lager, it can't be that hard to get a reasonable drink