Beer Radar for TWTW 2010
By John Krüger
The beer scene here in South Australia is starting to heat up a bit. Amazing beers like Rogue from USA are starting to show up in some of the hotels, like the Wheatsheaf in Thebarton and The Lion in North Adelaide. A few of the Beer Radar staff tried two Rogue beers on tap at the Wheatie the other night and they’re certainly not for the feint hearted. The Morimoto Imperial Pilsner is an intense beer that has an unusual miso soup flavour, while their Yellow Snow IPA is a brutal beer with 70 IBU’s of hop nastyness. A beer you can still taste the next day.
Kudos to the staff at the Lobethal Bierhaus. We stopped in for lunch a few weeks ago and Alistair gave us a sneak preview of their new dry hopped IPA, which is also a ball-tearer of a beer. We think it’s more drinkable than the Rogue beers and we’re hoping it’ll stay as one of their regular beers on tap. Our lunch, by the way was nothing less than spectacular. We opted for the specials of the day, chorizo and lemon stuffed poussin and a marinated fillet steak. Sensational!
