Scharers Lager

Brewed by Scharers Little Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Picton, N.S.W., Australia

20 Aug 2005 (Moody’s ACT) - Sweet luscious fruit malt aroma. Cloudy orange-brown colour, with good sheet lacing. Big sweet fruit flavour. Medium mouthfeel, fruity lingering flavour with some tang. Overall - Lacks some hop complexity.

Pale golden beer, thin white head. Nice big spicy hop aroma, bready malt and a very fresh yeasty aroma and flavour. Long sweet malt finish mixed with spicy noble hops. Really has the guts.

Tap at The Australian: Hazy gold with a thin head around the rim of the glass, though with a very fine bead that sparkled quite hypnotically. Musty pale malts in the aroma, followed by fruity hop notes (peaches and apricots). The flavour is restrained but sublime - honeyed pale malts, superb butterscotch diacetyls, and subtle fruity hops. Wonderful! Far and away the best Pale Lager I have encountered. A landmark in the Australian beer topography.

One of the most flavoursome lagers in Australia. (And yes, I know the competition is thin.) Made to be drunk within three weeks of bottling - which is a fine excuse to knock it off as soon as you buy it. It pours a classic lager gold colour with a thin white head. The nose is fresh and zesty, with sweetish notes. It’s thin-to-medium-bodied and creamy. There’s fruit at the front of the mouth - grapefruit notes and a hint of sweet apples. The finish is surprisingly hoppy - in fact, slightly jarring. Not quite up to the standard of the bock. (Bottle)

Cloudy straw colour with spritzy white head, disipated quickly. Fruity flavour mild bitter aftertaste.

Medium gold amber clear with a smallish short lasting pale yellow head. Short strong fruity malt followed by a faint plasticky plasticene aroma. Sourdough graininess malt aroma returns on glass swirl but the plasticene peturbs me too much. Medium Thin watery body. Medium mild soudough malt and floral bitter hops flavours. Intriguing wheat beer like end before moving to a strong low sweetness dry slightly stalish hoppy bitter finish. I’m not a big fan ofpale lagers but this one is at least a bit interesting. I wouldn’t mind trying a fresh one.

Hazy blonde coloured body with a thin white head. Aroma of coriander seed, wheat and whole oranges. Medium-bodied; Spicey flavour with coriander seed, nutmeg & wheat-VERY flavourful! Aftertaste spicey and full flavoured. Overall, one of the best lagers i’ve had-I think it’s a wheat! Afterwards...STRONG meaty flavours with beef stock, potatoes & celery!! WIERD! Tasting this after the Cascade 4 Seasons, these tastes come out, but prior, the wheaty tastes come out. Still, a crazy brew that is unpasteurised and very refreshing. I sampled this pint at the Australian Hotel on the Rocks in Sydney, Australia on 09-June-2004.

Sampled this after the Cascade 4 seasons autumn and experienced a most rare phenomenon. Perhaps I needed to wash my palate, but as there was no water available I couldn’t. I sampled this lager and tasted nothing but chicken broth and onions. Just like mom’s chicken soup in a bottle, even with hints of carrots and celery. Weird!?! I have to give this beer a slight benefit of the doubt since it was not its fault I didnt drink it first and also because I will not be able to retest it until I go back to Australia. This rating will have to do for now.