Pro Craft in the glass.

With a name like this it would be wrong for me not to try it. Colour is great. Still not convinced about sours with lactose sweetening though.

very cynical but maybe true, treat your ingredients right and you make good beer, ain"t a hard task commercially. Just so long as they taste good.

I had that beer this week and while the first sips were like a pleasant raspberry cordial...  It really doesn't do a lot with all of the ABV it has.  I'd give it 3 stars, and drink twice as much of any decent sub-4% sour happily over that!

Easy drinking and very smooth. Got me interested in brewing with pride of Ringwood. Subtle flavour comes through nicely. Like that distinct bitterness of coopers but turned down 90% haha. Great summer beer I think

Not my pic obviously but I did actually drink a few when a mate came over with some the other night. Even with my presumptions about Squires products nowadays I have to admit, not a bad drop.

I buy this a few times a year. 3.2%, easy drinking but interesting enough not be boring. Saving them for tomorrow but I don’t know how many will be left 😂

Maybe this should be in Aldi specials but it's here now. Aldi currently have a Brick Lane "Discovery Pack". 2 cans of each of six products for $30. Brick Lane is run by Jon Seltin who is a brilliant brewer.so it's gotta be worth a try,

Base Lager: Jon understands lager, unlike the majority of brewers. This would be an easy beer to dismiss but I think it's very good. Call it an extra helles: it's a bit less malt forward than many helles but for my money it's all the better for that.

Watermelon / Raspberry Sour. Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing that they like. I've never found a watermelon flavoured beer that worked, this is no exception. A sink beer for me.

Blood Orange Sour: this is OK but the orange flavour lacks bloodiness. I find adding a few frozen raspberries improves it greatly (blood orange is distinctly raspberry like IMO).

Pale Ale: A good balanced modern pale, biased towards American hops but toned down compared to some. The lupulin shifted will decry this but they are aiming to sell a lot of beer and I think this will work.

Red Hoppy: much like the pale but orange.

Supernova IPA: very pale for a modern IPA, the palate seems to confirm that this is based mainly on pale malts so there is less caramel sweetness than many, which brings the (American) hops to the fore. An interesting take on the style. I like this but then I'm not an IPA drinker.

As stated.

The fact you aren't a fan notwithstanding, would you say thats something inherent with the actual fruit or the process itself? 
I've got a whole bunch of Charleston Greys and Sugar Babys growing currently and whatever the kids don't get I plan to juice and concentrate via freeze distillation for use in beer. 
But its a lot of stuffing about if the juice literally isn't worth the squeeze.  

The Watermelon/Raspberry thing was terrible. I gave the 2nd can to a mate who actively seeks out sours and he tipped his out too.

Didn't mind the rest of the beers in the pack though, even the Blood Orange Sour/Fanta.

Andechs Doppelbock Dunkel. Absolutely brilliant beer. Huge malt flavour, balanced bitterness just leaning to the firm side, and dried out perfectly so that you could drink litres of it without blinking (for a while, until you fall off your bench seat...) but without thinning it out too much.

A new high bar for my sampling of Doppelbocks I think, fortunately I've got another bottle and one or two left from Augustiner as well to revisit and ponder.

Youngest rolled up home for Chrissy this arvo, got my advent a bit late but all good.
Some sours, saisons in there that I’ll hand on as I’m not a fan , but as I’ve got some catching up to do it’s chugalug. 👍🍻

Uraidla pale ale, I like it.
Schmick looking label too!

This one perhaps ? I’ll try it tonight.


Otherside brewery in Fremantle , hadn’t heard of them before either.
And a Merry Christmas to you and yours.