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To date they have visited the UK, with their London Best English ale, and more recently the States with their New World Wheat. Later this year they will move on to Germany when they release a Red Ace Kolsch and then back to Ireland with an Irish Red Ale. Gage Roads is one of our very solid, medium-sized breweries that have embraced the growing trend towards limited release and seasonal offerings for which they shold be congratulated. Their London Best was a thoroughly enjoyable interpretation of a bitter ale (great with a steak!), though I found the New World Wheat a little less exciting. Still, that may be because I like my wheat beers in the Bavarian style and can't claim much experience of the American style, so didn't have much basis for comparison. I look forward to their Kolsch, which is a terrific style not often done by larger breweries - if at all. In other seasonal news, look out for the new limited release offering from Malt Shovel . They are about to release their first beer under the Mad Brewers label in seven years. This time it's a raspberry wheat beer. Costing around $50 for a carton of 9 x 640ml bottles, it will be interesting to see how this one comes up. There aren't too many fruit beers brewed commercially in Australia, but Sydney's Redoak do a Frambiose Froment (raspberry) as well as a blackberry wheat - both of which can be a surprise for those conditioned to see a "refreshing" beer as a pale amber lager served tongue-numbingly cold. See the Malt Shovel website for ordering information, but be quick as there are only 3,800 cases available. |
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r as part of their seasonal limited edition release range.
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