Beer Radar<\/p>\n
By John Kr\u00fcger<\/p>\n
New Zealand special edition (Previously published in Wine Business Magazine in 2011)<\/p>\n
Emerson’s Pilsner<\/strong><\/p>\n 4.9%abv<\/p>\n Smells start with corn and pawpaw. Baked beans. It’s a concoction.<\/p>\n Nice sharp metallic bitterness. Hard to tell where carbonic bite finishes and bitterness continues but it’s enjoyable. Lingering hop bitterness that rolls on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tuatara APA<\/strong><\/p>\n 5.8%abv<\/p>\n Pours like a champ. Looks great. Pale burned orange with a thick soft head.<\/p>\n Malt and toffee aromas.<\/p>\n Good slab of bitterness. Fresh grass, a stew of tropical fruit and hop resin that’ll still be lingering tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n Cool label. Very drinkable for an aggressive beer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8wired Hopwired IPA<\/strong><\/p>\n 7.3%abv<\/p>\n Nice light colour but a bit of haze. Clean sharp bitterness like a mouthful of cold broken lightbulb. Attacking bitterness and tingling carbonation along with enough hop resin to chew like gum. There’s a slow seeping numbness through the mouth, presumably from the high alcohol and bucket loads of hops. A whiff and taste of good quality strawberries and cream lollies. Mandarin and grapefruit. This beer is like a moderate traffic accident that includes a ride in the ambulance with a few hits of happy gas. Exciting, then relaxing. Very enjoyable beer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Epic Armageddon IPA<\/strong><\/p>\n 6.66%abv<\/p>\n Looks filtered and lovely.<\/p>\n Smells of hot buttered toast with honey and marmalade. Some background of roast turkey with gravy.<\/p>\n Surprisingly clean and polished. Dense wheat toast and honey flavor with a refined bitterness. A great, tasty refined beer. Loud but not aggressive. Expecting Armageddon and ended up with a boozy roast turkey Christmas lunch at the mother-in-laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beer Radar By John Kr\u00fcger New Zealand special edition (Previously published in Wine Business Magazine in 2011) Emerson’s Pilsner 4.9%abv Smells start with corn and pawpaw. Baked beans. It’s a concoction. Nice sharp metallic bitterness. Hard to tell where carbonic bite finishes and bitterness continues but it’s enjoyable. Lingering hop bitterness that rolls on. … Continue reading NZ Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}