Mervyn Pale Ale
Blackman's Brewery
- From:
- Blackman's Brewery
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 3.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 05, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 15, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Mervyn is a juicy, American pale ale made for celebrating. US hops provide tropical flavors and aromas, with a dry finish.
Let the good times roll!
Let the good times roll!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
3.91/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours a deep golden yellow with a quickly dissipating head that leaves a thin rim of froth at the top of the glass.
Aroma is muted tropical notes with noticeable hoppiness.
Taste is pineapple with retronasal lychee, peach and mango. Finish is dry and abrupt.
Mouthfeel is smooth, carbonation is spot on.
This is a nice beer with high drinkability that stands up well to contemporary craft beer pale ale offerings.
Cheers!
Apr 05, 2022Aroma is muted tropical notes with noticeable hoppiness.
Taste is pineapple with retronasal lychee, peach and mango. Finish is dry and abrupt.
Mouthfeel is smooth, carbonation is spot on.
This is a nice beer with high drinkability that stands up well to contemporary craft beer pale ale offerings.
Cheers!
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.62/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Mervyn....... Merv... Mervyn.....? I like it, oddly enough, it’s got a ring to it that name. Ahem. Yes. Mervyn is the latest semi-probably-limited-but-they’ll-no-doubt-add-it-to-their-core-range-because-hell-who-doesn’t-have-a-pale-ale-in-their-core-range-these-days-plus-it-plugs-a-gap for Blackman’s Brewery, who really have nailed it with Reginald IPA and Angry Reg DIPA - West Coast styled brews as good as almost anything I’ve tried from the States. Can Blackman’s continue this A-game chicanery with this modest 4.6% ABV American Pale Ale? I certainly hope so, if only because I like the sound of Mervyn, and perhaps the cut of his jib too - which is a nautical term FYI: it refers to a triangular sail set between the foretopmast head and the jib boom. There: you learnt something new today. Thank me later.
Poured from a 330ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Crisp golden body with possible flecks of hop... hop stuff... floating around. It’s not yeast is what I’m saying. 1 centimetre off-white sea foam head that leaves lace that presents itself as a world map (Mercator projection, of course). 7/10.
S: Pineapple, mango and jackfruit - the major players in the tropical fruit flavours realm - come together for a corroboree within in Mervyn, lovely chap that he is. Not much in the way of malt... or anything else, this is a tropical Pale Ale FTW here. 8/10.
T: T’salright this one - slanted towards those tropical fruits in the aroma (just to recap: pineapple, mango and jackfruit) but the flavour gives a bit of slack to a buttery/toffee malt character and a touch of grain, finishes with a very restrained bitterness. This to me is more sessionable than a “Session ___” like Stone’s Go To IPA - and it has an even lower ABV! The only thing is that I feel this could use a bit more of my favourite adjective: OMPFH. Yeah, bit of that. Solid otherwise. 7/10.
M: Mid to light bodied with a light carbonation - works for the style, perhaps a bit more body and a touch more carbonation would lift it to the next level. 7/10.
D: Nice tropical burps from this one too - glad the gf isn’t here to hear them though ;) Overall Mervyn is one laid-back SOB, he doesn’t demand anything, but you don’t want to mess with him - he’ll muddle you up if he has to. Yet again Blackman’s has bought out a solid brew, though by default of being on the lower end of the ABV spectrum this brew does “wow” me less than all the others - I guess the older I get in this beer review game the more I need flavour: bags of it. Sad but true - a sign that my tastebuds are on the way out perhaps? 7/10.
Food match: Green papaya salad or anything else that has a tropical fruit slant.
Aug 15, 2017Poured from a 330ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Crisp golden body with possible flecks of hop... hop stuff... floating around. It’s not yeast is what I’m saying. 1 centimetre off-white sea foam head that leaves lace that presents itself as a world map (Mercator projection, of course). 7/10.
S: Pineapple, mango and jackfruit - the major players in the tropical fruit flavours realm - come together for a corroboree within in Mervyn, lovely chap that he is. Not much in the way of malt... or anything else, this is a tropical Pale Ale FTW here. 8/10.
T: T’salright this one - slanted towards those tropical fruits in the aroma (just to recap: pineapple, mango and jackfruit) but the flavour gives a bit of slack to a buttery/toffee malt character and a touch of grain, finishes with a very restrained bitterness. This to me is more sessionable than a “Session ___” like Stone’s Go To IPA - and it has an even lower ABV! The only thing is that I feel this could use a bit more of my favourite adjective: OMPFH. Yeah, bit of that. Solid otherwise. 7/10.
M: Mid to light bodied with a light carbonation - works for the style, perhaps a bit more body and a touch more carbonation would lift it to the next level. 7/10.
D: Nice tropical burps from this one too - glad the gf isn’t here to hear them though ;) Overall Mervyn is one laid-back SOB, he doesn’t demand anything, but you don’t want to mess with him - he’ll muddle you up if he has to. Yet again Blackman’s has bought out a solid brew, though by default of being on the lower end of the ABV spectrum this brew does “wow” me less than all the others - I guess the older I get in this beer review game the more I need flavour: bags of it. Sad but true - a sign that my tastebuds are on the way out perhaps? 7/10.
Food match: Green papaya salad or anything else that has a tropical fruit slant.
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