Holgate Choc Temptress

Style:American Porter
Alc %:6.0
Brewery:Holgate Brewery
Country:Australia
Tap/Bottle?:tap
Where/When:Darlo Taphouse
Cost:$13 tasting Paddle
Rating:6

Alcohol . Raisens and cocoa on the nose. Same deal on the palate but not so sweet

Holgate Hopinator

Style:Imperial IPA
Alc %:7
Brewery:Holgate
Country:Australia
Tap/Bottle?:bottle
Where/When:Home, Sept 2010
Cost:$7
Rating:6.5/10

Next to no head - very dark copper with a hint of ruby when held up to the light.
Caramel, malts, hop resin. A little bit of orange.
Taste:Some nice fruit up front-but not alot.
Lots of malt in the middle palate finishing with some lasting bitterness.
I thought this was an OK drop, not a lot of Imperial IPA's around in Oz, but nothing outstanding all the same.

Holgate Hopinator

Style:Double IPA
Alc %:7
Brewery:Holgate Brewery
Country:Australia
Tap/Bottle?:bottle,330ml
Where/When:Home, Sept 2010
Cost:$8approx
Rating:6/10

Off white head. Leaves just a little layer of bubbles.
Ruby copper colour.
Nice sweet malty nose. Definate fruit- grapefruit. A little toffee. Now it's been in the glass a while i get a little bit of pine.
Rounded malt up front. Burnt toffee is sharp on the tongue with residual bitterness.
If a I savour a mouthfull I get the pine & grapefruit but otherwise it seems all malt.
From my experiance of some US 2IPA's I've had- this is pretty similar- the malt/burnt toffee is very bold. So, it's true to style in my mind.
Creamy, fresh and well carbonated.
Overall the burnt toffee was just a little over powering for me- so not something I would drink more than a bottle of at a sitting.
Not as good as I'd hoped for.

Holgate Mt Macedon Pale Ale

Style:Pale Ale
Alc %:4.5
Brewery:Holgate Brewery
Country:Australia
Tap/Bottle?:Tap
Where/When:The Local, 3/10/09
Cost:$13 as part of a flight
Rating:4/10

Wooh toffee honey nose. Nice amber colour.
A smoky musty initial taste- different to what I've tasted before- kinda weird really- there's something that I can't put my finger on that I've tasted but I can't name it.
Overall I don't really like it 4/10

Flight of 5

L to r
Budvar Czech Pilsner,
Holgate Mt Macedon Pale Ale,
Trumer Pils ( but was in fact, Five Islands Barbeerian Wit),
Mountain Goat Spicy Duck Nuts,
Bridge Road Imperial Porter.

The flight cost $13 at The Local on 3/10/09.
So overall nothing blew me away with these 5 beers-still worth trying tho!