Hammer N Tongs Draught

Aroma 8 I love the smell of home brew Appearance 3 I am drinking from a bottle and a fine looking bottle it is. I am sure it looks good inside my tummy also. :) Flavor 7 It does taste a bit like XXXX I have figured and that aint too bad, along with it crossing towards a boags that hits the spot! Palate 3 sweet at 1st, then with a nice XXXX ending.... as Borat would say... niiiice! Overall impression 15 most people told me it would be crap, I was very suprised and must give it 75% for this category. I rated this beer quite well based on the fact alot of people neglected to give it the credit it is worth for a 4% $25 case of beer. It is fairly cidery, I like a boags, favorite is Boags Light. If you dont mind this as a similar but not exactly the same type of flavor you will enjoy it. I guess most people like the VB or Carlton Draght or XXXX. If this is what you are looking for yes you will be disappointed. It doesnt taste like a cheap beer. I gave it an 8 for aroma based on the fact it smelt like a home brew, When I drink a cheap beer, I wanna feel cheap and what cheaper smell is there than home brew. Seriously if you like a cascde/boags type beer then you wont mind this. Just dont expect the earth or you will be slagging it like others... When I saw the name in the 1st Choice I had to crack a smile and say in my most ocker bogan voice, "STRUTH I wanna go Hammer N tongs!!!!" Another thing it is brewed it says on the bottle in tassie, I think the beer is worth it based on the fact it has been made with water from tasmania... I have drunk about 6 of them by now and a comment from my neighbour was while it is a bit like a boags it does have a XXXX gold after taste. I kinda have to agree with him. If anything it could be called a refined XXXX gold?

Bottle (375ml). Poured a dull gold with a average size, creamy, white head which was fully lasting. Aroma was of sweet cornish malts, honey and some damp bready notes. Flavor was darn right offensive! with loads of musky wet cardboard, sweet cornish malts and some sugar. Light bodied with medium carbonation, watery texture, watery mouthfeel and a short finish. Awful.

A trip down south to Bunbury bought this knocking on my door. Doing the ’handshake and smile’ rounds for a Perth brewer, I was in desperate need of a good German Pilsner or the like and, no-where to be found at first, needed to sample this questionable Tasman Bitter clone just for another notch. Good to get it out the way.
Into a whisky tumbler (all that was available) it produced a dull-gold and bright with a nicely formed, well held pad of fake white foam that daubed rings down the glass. An "I’m sorry who farted?" yeast burp lifts from the glass - slow-cooled poached eggs followed by boiled old cabbage. It tingles and then bites in the mouth, carbonic acid ’east-coast-style’. As you get into it a little passionfruit shows, canned corn kernels, nasty yeast notes and a balance of mown-lawn hops make for utter pleasant and down-right enjoyable drinking. Its finish is rough, metallic, not crisp and so thoughtful is the dodgy vegetable broth of a finish that I must say made me forget I was tasting new beer at all. Is this the state of Australian brewing. Have we regional beers now made by licensed nobodies and paid for by huge corporations like San Miguel?. Have I lost touch with Aussie brewing in only a month or two?
A label to soon find at auction on ebay as it will soon be discontinued!!! (37,5cL, 20/03/08, Liquorland, Bunbury)

Funny how the name Boags appears nowhere on this. Trick is to freeze the life out of it to make it drinkable. Soft and bland but better than similar products at this end of the range.

a good beer when ya can’t afford anything else... nice colour, not much of a head and smells a little skunky...