Humungus
Apex Brewing

Last of 4 cans picked up at then Bench Creek’s 3rd Anniversary party (before renaming to Apex Predator Brewing). Consumed gradually over now 5+ months but waited until now to review - I remember liking each time but old version may have been my favourite!
Hazy golden orange colour with short lived off white head. Aroma fantastic tangerine, citrus, hint of body odour, and pine. Taste starts with hit of piney bitterness, quickly “balanced “ by orange, tangerine sweetness, but the bitterness hangs. Thick full mouthfeel, moderately carbonated, sticky lingering piney bittersweet. Slow sipper for sure - not a beer one throws back in a rush. Great.

 

473ml can - the latest in this rebranded brewery's Villainous Series, and named after the leader of the bad dudes in the Mad Max Road Warrior movie.

This beer pours a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent lifting fog bank pattern lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.

It smells of dank pine resin, overripe pineapple, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, and some leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, pineapple and mixed stone fruity notes, a damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-baiting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the hops do well to not get into any mischief at this particular point in the process. It finishes dry, clean, and still nice and hoppy.

Overall - well, they've gone and done it again, creating a big-boy brew, full of flavour, and with barely even a suggestion of the elevated ABV. Scary easy to drink, and thankfully not as hard to find as gasoline or ammunition, at least for the time being!