this episode is part of our australian pale ale series
today's beer is nail brewing pale ale
hello and welcome to beer australia reviews and today we're going to be drinking some nail brewing
pail now nail brewing is a local micro brewery from perth western australia it's actually
one of the closest breweries to where i am and and i'm really happy to support this it's
the beauty is just run by just an ordinary local perth bloke his name is john stalwood
and he's been brewing beer since 1994 but in this site where they are which is in the bassandine
area of perth they've been at the current location since 2012. now the pale ale that i've got here
is just about their flagship beer but it's one of the most unusual beers that you're going to come
across because they keep changing the recipe so they call this one the an nbt i think it's that
stands for nail brewing test so on the bottom of the can is actually a batch number this is
nbt 11 and there's a barcode or a qr code on the can to scan and batch series drink compare
and make your say in the next pale ale i think i might be partaking in that one to be
honest i'll have my say about australian pale ales whether you like it or not
now in that way it's a lot reminiscent of the the new small english ale breweries because
they often make small batches and they just do a few kegs of each particular recipe that they
that they create so if you go to one of the small pubs or when i say a small pub
i mean like a non-tied pub in the uk a lot of the pubs are owned by some of the big broweries the
parts of large chains which they do do real ale in many of those places but if you want to get
some of the ales from some of the micro breweries you've got to go to some of the independent pubs
my favorite one my local pub in liverpool is called the ship and mitre
and they have lots of individual casks of ale from various english small breweries
and every single time you go in there it's a different range of beers it's a different batch
of beer and it's different every time it it's it's great so i hope that they carry on doing this
at nail because i like to taste different beers all the time so i i will be buying every time
they come out with a new batch of nail beer there will be a pale i will be buying some so
okay now unfortunately this place does not have a venue that you can go and visit they don't have a
brewpub so you do have to go and get this from like your local uh your local beer stockists your
your local bottle shop so this one is from my local vintage sellers
and yeah i will definitely be going back and buying some more because i
will like to try and see what the next batch is like okay so let's have a go
let's see what we get
oh the smell
immediately when you open a good quality craft beer if the smell hits you you
know you've got something good so well done mr nail what can i call you jimmy
i got a bit of cloudiness in there oh look the colour
the bubbles on the top of this one are sort of large bubbles
it's cloudy all the way through
i can smell it from here that's really good
okay now this one unlike lots of places they don't have a lot of blurb on the website telling you
what you should find in this one so i don't know whether we're gonna find him piney resins
or avocados or hedgehogs whatever i don't know
but i tend not to believe it until i drink it so let's have a go
oh yeah it's it's got the big hit of
citrus
oh it's a very dry and very bitter one but it's got sweetness underneath
on the tongue it's really it dances around a lot oh there's lots of
taste in the background on this one uh there's grapefruits at the back
there's a sherbety tang on the on the tongue
there's some citrus in there but it's not a big citrus flavor some
beers are i have lots of grapefruits in them this one you can taste the grapefruit but
it's not overpowering citrus but it's it's got multiple layers of flavor this one
it's definitely not a tropical pale ale so we're not getting any of those sorts of pineappley
mangoey sorts of flavors but there's there's a lot of grapefruits in this one
the aroma is really it jumps out at you it's not the strongest of the aromas but it's
it there's a lot of it so sometimes the aroma can be lesser but more
pungent but this one is like a big aroma but quite a sweet aroma and so it tastes like a sweet beer
sort of on the tip of your tongue but once it goes inside it then gets drier and it
really hits you at the back with him with bitterness let's see what else is in there
okay it's sort of a sweet and sour thing this i'm not a big fan of sour beers and this is not
attempting to be a sour beer but it's definitely got the the sweet and the sour
notes on this one they've also managed to not produce a beer that tastes like perth water
if you've ever been to to perth and tasted the water out of the tap my commiserations to you
but it's god damn awful and the water when you put you you drink the water and your mouth feels
dry afterwards it's got that much it's got no sediment in it but it just feels like it's got
lots of things in so they've managed to avoid that with this beer so i don't know where they
source the water or how they treat the water when they make the beer but it just goes
to show how much efforts that this company has put into making the beer because i if i
can't taste perth water inside this they've done a really good job so well done mr nail
okay so recently i've been drinking a lot of western australian pale ales especially
from the margaret river region and they tend to be a little bit smoother than this this one
does have a bit more sharpness on it not that it's not a smooth beer
not it doesn't go down really well it does this has gone down very nicely yeah
but it's it's definitely a saving beer all right it's not the it's not the sort of beer what
you would have um just because you you're really thirsty and you need to swing back a
pint it's not one of them it's got more to it than that one and it's not particularly multi
it's got lots of hops in there and you can taste the quality of the hops this is this is
just this is just a really overall high quality product so i'm really happy that i'm drinking
nail brewing co nail brewing test pale ale today so shout out to the guy who runs the brewery
his name is john stalwood yep you're doing a good job there mate i will be buying some more i will
be buying some of the other batches and now they they do this particular beer in a can which is
it's a 375 can is that and they also do a 50 liter can i would buy the 50 liter can
if i thought i could you know ever thought i could persuade my wife to let me do it
anyways this is one of the the most highly recommended beers i've drank recently so
nail brewing from perth and yeah this is a really good beer complex
it's got sharpness it's got bitterness but it's avoided the perth water
like tang that it puts on the beers of lesser quality so yeah i definitely recommend this one
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