this episode is part of our australian india pale ale series today's beer is bent spoke cranking ipa
hello from beer australia reviews and today we will be sampling tasting and reviewing
some bent spoke crankshaft ipa bent spoke is a small micro brewery from canberra in the
act for anyone who's outside australia that's the australian capital territory cambridge is actually
the capital of australia if you're outside australia you might not even know one of the
reasons why canberra was established was due to its high quality water supply bent spoke brewery
has been set up to try and take advantage of the high quality water at this location they've been
established since 2014 and they've won lots of awards for their beers across in lots of different
types of beer competitions across australia so it's a small micro brewery they're expanding
their size obviously they they want to be bigger and they also have a local brew pub they do the
usual sorts of in pub foods and you can go along and have a tasting paddle and try all of their
different beers i think on their website it said they have up to 18 different beers insider
on tap at their brew pub so well worth a visit if anyone has been to the bent spoke brew pub
in canberra let us know this is an ipa and it says it's similar to a west coast ipa so they're not
making claims and saying it's a definite west coast ipa and it also from the website it says
a floral nose with notes of citrus and pine and medium body with a nice punch of hops and a
solid malt finish and the hops on this one ekuanot simcoe citra centennia this one comes out
of 5.8 percent this will definitely be the first time i've ever tried beer from canberra in the act
so i've had beers from just about all of the other states and territories
across australia but this is going to be a world first so let's give it a try see what it's like
quite a pale oh immediate we got a a hit of citrus that's always good if you as
soon as you open the can you get some citrus lots of bubbles small head oh more citrus
so we have a slightly cloudy beer there's lots of sparkly bubbles in this one and bubbles are moving
fast there's lots of them lots of small bubbles small bubbles usually indicate a a good quality
beer a light foamy head it's the the head is not persisting all that much but the aromas
are coming towards me already so what does it say about the aromas on this one so it says citrus
and pine it doesn't specify anything more than just the citrus so let's give it a go
well there's definite citrus in this one there's plenty of hops that have gone into
the making of this particular beer it's a strong bitter malt so it's quite cooling
on this one compared to some and we've got a little bit of grapefruit at the back
so this one is more of a floral beer rather than being a strong
tasting beer but they have got quite a nice balance between the bitterness of the drink
the floral aromas there's still like a bit of cooling sweetness in there as well now
let's see if i pick out anything in particular a tiny little bit of pine there's a little bit of
tropical fruits in this one so there could be like a little bit of oranges and a little bit of mango
it's not overwhelmingly slow it's a floral aroma rather than being an intense fruity
aroma so that's not bad in itself this is this is actually a nice beard it's a well-balanced beer
it's quite a sharp taste but it doesn't have abundant tanginess in this one so there are
grapefruit and flavors oh there's the big hit of grapefruit i've got lots of grapefruit right now
just as i was saying it was a moderate grapefruit all of a sudden they squeezed another whole
grapefruit chunk into the glass it's tasting really good first time i've had beers from this
particular brewery i'd never actually heard of it until i seen the cans inside my local
vintage sellers shop so i thought i'd give it a try and yeah it's it's impressing so far let's
give it a little bit of time to to settle in things and let's see if we can get any more aromas
there's pine in there yes
i'm definitely getting some tropical fruits there's some there's some mango in there
as it goes into your mouth you get a big hit of bitterness rice across the
tongue across the top of your mouth and it then gives you grapefruit citrus feel even
like as strong as like a grapefruit peel type of a flavor and that stays for quite a long time
i'm still getting in grapefruit citrus right this second so anytime you get multiple flavors anytime
that the flavor lingers you know you've got more flavor the more flavors that you get from your can
of beer just the better value you're getting for your money this one is sort of a medium
body beer when it comes to ipa's it's not the most lightest of ipa that i've seen and it's
certainly nothing like a heavy ipa i think the um heaviest ipa i've tried was a cheeky monkey
west coast ipa which was really thick and malt this one's a much lighter mulch i mean
it's lighter in alcohol content than the cheeky monkey cheeky monkey was coming out
at 6.5 this one's coming out of 5.8 it's hitting the spot i can this is a beer that i can recommend
it's sort of in between a saving beard and a swig down beer it's middling in what i would recommend
it for but again it's one of these beers where the brewers know what are doing they put a big effort into
making the beer and the beer is showing just it's it's high quality so it might be middling when it
comes to the the body of the beer and the flavor notes of the beer compared to the different types
of ipas out there but the quality is spot on when i say middling i don't mean middling in quality
quality is high i mean just a mid-range on the flavors compared to the other high quality ipas
it's the first time i've ever tried a beer from this particular brewery so it's it's
bent spoke brewing co from canberra in the act this particular one is called benspoke cranking
ipa well obviously they are cycling fanatics in canberra and i'm looking forward to trying some
more of their beers this one is very worthwhile in trying out if you are in the area in canberra
go and visit the brewpub and then tell us what it was like sample the beers please have one of their
tasting paddles and tell us what your favorite beer is but i can 100 recommend this particular
and cranking ipa beer from the benspoke brewing co in canberra act thanks for watching you