Boags Wizard Smith Ale

Brewed by J. Boag & Son (San Miguel)
Style: English Pale Ale
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Light copper coloured with small head. Has some nice caramel mal aromas and slight English hopa too. Palate is light-med weight with caramel again and a dry finish. I think this is Boags only true ale but it still has a Boags character to it, meaning lager like in body and carbonation. Its too light to be a good English style pale ale to me.

...nice pour, reddish light brown with a small white head. The nose was definitely hoppy, with malty flavors, and good grain flavor, and some grassyness. Did taste like an English Ale, looked like one too. Finished malty and clean. Nice.

Must be this mob’s best beer? Not much of a claim of course! The Golding hops are used to great effect and provide a very genuine English Ale feel with nice earthy / grainy flavours running right through the palate. Malts revert back to macro averageness and there is too much fizz, but, not a bad effort from these guys.

Sweet malt hop aroma. Red amber colour with good head and lacing. Malt hop flavour with bitter aftertaste. Fizzy palate.

Great amber colour. Tastes like a dry-hopped beer. Not much aroma but great mouth-feel. Would buy again.

Bottle (375ml). Poured a light amber with frothy, off-white head which was mostly diminishing. Aroma was earthy with caramel malts, sweet toffee, cooked brown sugar, and hints of oranges. Flavor was smooth caramel malts with a light bitterness, subtle fruitiness (oranges) and some metallic notes (light) with a nutty dry finish. Medium bodied with lively carbonation, watery texture, dry mouthfeel and an ok finish. Not a bad beer from Boags, I would say it would have to be my favorite from them by a fair margin, but I found it to be a touch to carbonated for the style.

375ml bottle served chilled. Clean pale amber body with fluffy white head and lace. Earthy citrus hops on the nose, some underlying sweet toffee malt. Creamy lively carbonation, sticky texture, lean bodied compared to authentic British ales. Slightly sharp hop presence, dirty marmalade, a bit sweet, reasonably bitter finish, quite abrupt. Another reasonably typical Aussie-made British ale clone, simply doesn’t have the malt backbone and fresh hoppiness of the real thing.

Not a bad beer, but nothing on a good english ale. On early whiffs I couldn’t quite decide if it was more pasteurised English ale or dodgy Australian lager. Thankfully it tended toward the English after the head receded. A bit too much of the boiled lollies smell, but it had a pleasant enough fruitiness. Flavour is a little bland. Reasonable enough, but underwhelming