Category: Beer Reviews

Dead frog honey brown Copper moderate head, clear Moderate aroma, sharp and clean. Toast Slightly creamier mouthfeel Slightly fruity taste nicely balanced. Bittersweet drying aftertaste is a little long, especially toward the bottom of the bottle. Not horrible, but there are far better beers out there than Dead Frog. 3.5/5 G2
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Category: Beer Reviews

Dead frog nut brown Copper colour, faint aroma slight bread and sweet Sweet taste, creamy mouthfeel. Caramel taste. Lingering sweetness. Taste on back of tongue. Medium to strong taste intensity Wouldn’t drink more than one…. 2/5 g1
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Dead Frog Brewing hails from Aldergrove BC, and is about three years old. The only dead frog beer I tried last year was the 2 1/2 year anniversary ale. Not only was it terrible, it was quite possible the most terrible beer I have ever tasted. To their credit, at least they don’t make it [...]
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Category: Editorial

As the summer nears, it is nearly time to start tasting again, but first I would like to acknowledge my best and fairest for 2009: BEST BREWERY: Nelson Brewing, Nelson British Columbia By providing consistently great beer and setting an example for other breweries, but using only organic ingredients, Nelson Brewery has earned the title [...]
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If you are in Fremantle, Australia, one of the best places to party is Little Creatures Brewery. It is a huge warehouse-style building along the water, complete with a tin roof and huge patio. Out back there is even a big party tent with great water views. The only beer worth drinking is Little Creatures [...]
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Category: Beer Reviews

Little Creatures Brewery, Fremantle, Australia NEVER DRINK THIS STUFF!!! I can’t believe I am wasting my time even writing about this terrible stuff. Appearance, Straw Medium Clarity Poor Head. The bartender actually shook the glass to give it head before he served it. That doesn’t say much about the brewery staff. Bread Aroma 4/5 intensity, [...]
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Category: Beer Reviews

Claremont, Australia Little Creatures Pale Ale is one of my favourite Australian beers. There aren’t many preservative-free beers to choose from that are readily accessible at your local bottle shop, and this is one of the best tasting. They use an in-bottle fermentation method that leaves a residue in the bottle, which is a little [...]
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Category: Beer Reviews

A great beer doesn’t need many words. Gold Appearance, brilliantly clear, and persistent head (5/5) Sweet Aroma, hint of caramel, mildly floral, intensity of 4/5. Clean taste (5/5), impression 5/5 G2
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Category: Beer Reviews

It is a great session here at Mash Brewing in the Swan Valley. I had a Little Creatures Pale Ale earlier on, and a few minutes ago we had the wheat beer here at Mash, and now moving on to the Pale Ale. The colour is Amber, Brilliant, weakest head of the day, but still [...]
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Category: Beer Reviews

The Mash Wunderbier was a tribute to Oktoberfest, and the great beers of Bavaria. With its brilliant copper look, I would have guessed it was a Pale Ale. However, the bartender assured me that the kegs were not mixed up, and the correct beer was exiting the tap and hitting my glass (and my stomach). [...]
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