XPA
Hawkers Beer
- From:
- Hawkers Beer
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 1.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 17, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 21, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Our refreshing XPA delivers perfectly balanced layers of vibrant tropical fruit and floral notes for great drinkability all year round.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Beginner2:
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Only my second Hawkers in two days and I'm starting to like them. This APA is probably in its second or third release and is learning fast what a lot of American micros also should learn fast.
XPA Looks slightly above average, a decent foam but it fades fast. Smells are likewise rated as there is only sweet malt and only a hint of hops to finish my snort. However, Tastes are quite well done: just enough hops to balance the sweet and they only become prominent in the last part of the finish. Medium-mouthed, also soft in a raspy style. Recommended if you can find it.
Nov 17, 2025XPA Looks slightly above average, a decent foam but it fades fast. Smells are likewise rated as there is only sweet malt and only a hint of hops to finish my snort. However, Tastes are quite well done: just enough hops to balance the sweet and they only become prominent in the last part of the finish. Medium-mouthed, also soft in a raspy style. Recommended if you can find it.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by shambeano from Australia
3.65/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 375ml can into a tulip. Best before date 13/12/2019
Look: Pours a bright golden amber with about an inch of fluffy white head. head subsides to about 1 cm, leaving a fair bit of lacing down the glass. Looks pretty good.
Smell: First thing i get is a biscuit/caramel malt. There's a touch of stonefruit and citrus in the smell as well, but the hop character seems a little gentle.
Taste: A bit more hop variance on the flavour, still quite fruity, with the stone fruit and citrus, but there is also a bit of earthiness and pine towards the end. Caramely malts. Finishes with a well rounded bitterness.
Feel: light to mid bodied, zesty carbonation. Good length on the bitterness.
Overall: Well rounded beer, nice hop character and a solid malt backbone.
Jan 21, 2019Look: Pours a bright golden amber with about an inch of fluffy white head. head subsides to about 1 cm, leaving a fair bit of lacing down the glass. Looks pretty good.
Smell: First thing i get is a biscuit/caramel malt. There's a touch of stonefruit and citrus in the smell as well, but the hop character seems a little gentle.
Taste: A bit more hop variance on the flavour, still quite fruity, with the stone fruit and citrus, but there is also a bit of earthiness and pine towards the end. Caramely malts. Finishes with a well rounded bitterness.
Feel: light to mid bodied, zesty carbonation. Good length on the bitterness.
Overall: Well rounded beer, nice hop character and a solid malt backbone.
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