Well everyone knows that Mornington Peninsula is a great area for a few days R&R and also a great place for wine tasting - what many may not know is that it also has a few great micro/breweries too!
A group of us went for a long weekend and after a day of wine tasting, the boys would launch into a few beers to have a break from wine and it was a great pleasure buying local craft beer here!
The main three are Hix, Red Hill and Mornington Peninsula Brewery. I think it would be tough to work out which was the best, but I think the overall favourite beer of the group was the Red Hill Pilsner - it was a little sweet, offset with a bit of malt and hops and a really light body, but had a little more flavour than a number of pilsners so it was absolutely perfect in between or after drinking wine.
The Hix Pilsner was a perfect classic Pilsner, like you would find in central and eastern Europe - the guys haven't tried to make it into some ale / pilsner mix that you often find a lot of aussie breweries do, so if you a fan of classic Pilsener, check it out! The fact that that they call it "Pilsener" as the Czechs do is really all you need to know to gauge how it tastes!
The Red Hill Wheat Beer will be a love it or hate it beer for Aussies - wheat beers over hear are more Witbiers in my opinion, which marries in with the pale ale tastes that Australia loves. I was a real fan of this beer - the fruit tastes and sweet fruit smell is lovely, it has that nice cloudy heavy body that I like in a wheat beer but the taste is more like a Hefewizen; i.e. unfiltered, solid with a hint of bitterness and a bit more lighter than say a Witbier.
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| Wheat cloudy beer |
I have a separate review of MP Brew as we also managed to head along to the brewery for beer and pizza, but as a general note - the APA was amazeballs...
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