Baron's Pale Ale
A relative newcomer to the Australian Beer scene, Baron's Pale Ale (4.6% abv) takes the well established American Pale Ale route and extends the concept by using highly aromatic hops sourced from New Zealand. I had heard rumours about Baron's beers and their growing popularity in the United States and was keen to check out what all the hype was all about. The beer is uniquely bitter, Its unobtrusive, but I think the IBU rating would still be well over 30 IBU's. The aroma is of passionfruit and lychee, but instead of deriving these flavours from Cascade and Amarillo, Baron's have chosen newer hop varieties such as Nelson Sauvin and Pacific Gem to do the job. Due to the beer only being relesed relatively recently, I have been unable to find out too much info. However as always there is a website! Overall, a good balanced beer which I shall crave until I can find it either here in the UK, or when I move back to Australia.
posted by Tim at
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
2 Comments:
The aroma is of passion fruit and lychee. Is this what you read on the bottle or have you become Jilly Goolden now.
This is really good stuff. Most American beers seem to have a hard time finding a middle ground. The big commercial brands are way too bland, and the microbrewery stuff tends to be too much "in your face". Baron's gets it just right. Flavorful but not overpowering. It's very refreshing and a great party animal.
For some reason, the only place you can find Baron's around here seems to be at a discount grocery store, so in addition to being great beer it's extremely cheap!
Leinenkugel (unfortunately not available in California) is still my all-time favorite, but this one is a very close second.
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