{"id":685,"date":"2008-06-30T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebeernut.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/nostalgia-not-what-it-used-to-be.html"},"modified":"2008-06-30T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T07:45:00","slug":"the-beer-nut-nostalgia-not-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"The Beer Nut: Nostalgia: not what it used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\"\"<\/a>It’s almost five years since I was in Australia. In the week or so I was there I worked through as many of their beers as I could get my hands on, which meant a lot of pale lagers. I haven’t retained much memory of most of them — though Toohey’s Extra Dry sticks in my mind as my go-to lager. Had I been blogging at the time, I’m certain I’d have given an honourable mention to Boag’s Premium, from Tasmania.<\/p>\n

Declan from the Bull & Castle gifted me a bottle, only slightly out of date, following a root through through the pub’s backroom store. Never one to refuse free beer from a pub manager I took it home to give it a proper write-up.<\/p>\n

Grassiness is the dominant characteristic here, on the nose and in the foretaste. Oddly — and maybe this is the bottle showing its age — the aroma had a kind of sharp, sugary tartness to it, almost like a lambic. The flavour is very definitely bitter, however. Green and slightly vegetal, though not straying far from the clean refreshing lines of hot-country lawnmower lager.<\/p>\n

Perhaps not as good as I remember it, but better than the brewery’s Strongarm<\/a> lager, and not bad at all for free.<\/p>\n

Anything else back there, Declan?
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