St Arnou Creamy Ale
Potters Hotel & Brewery (Hunter Beer Co)

St. Arnou Kildara (4.5%)
For some reason (tax-related, I’m sure), all of St. Arnou’s beers ring in at 4.5% alcohol.
The Kildara is an Irish red that I think might be better classified as a cream ale.
The beer pours with a nice Guinness or Fuller’s-like cascading effect. The beer is a lovely dark copper colour with a head that would last for an hour. In fact, it does. On the side of the glass.
Little smell is present over the frothy, Guinness-like head. What is there is a slight acidic smell. I had this beer at the St. Arnou brewhouse on Little Collins Street in Melbourne. I have to hand it to them, the taste is amazingly smooth and drinkable. The beer’s a thick cream style with nice balance of sweetness and bitterness, although hops are not detectible.
Mouthfeel is silky smooth and thick. A couple of these would fill a belly up for sure.

Appearance: 4.5
Smell: 2.5
Taste: 4.0
Mouthfeel:4.5
Drinkability: 3.5

Looks like Kilkenny, creamy head, pretty much the same deep amber red colour. Not bad, smooth texture, prickly caramelly, sultana malt characters, on the sweeter side of the scale, but not too bad. A touch sticky. Had it draught at the Brisbane Festival of beers.