Lagerboy Speaks
Fremantle’s Little Creatures brewery are primarily known for their ubiquitous (and excellent) flagship Pale Ale (5.2%) – but they do a range of other beer styles as well. The mystifying question is why we in the UK can never seem to find any. After many years of drinking their Pale Ale, only recently have others started to appear here (to my eyes, at least). This started the other day, when a beaming yellow bottle appeared alongside their stock beer – Little Creatures Bright Ale (4.5%)
As Lagerboy hasn’t had a run out for a while, we let him loose on this Australian offering – nobody loves the fizz more than the thirsty Antipodeans. The fact that RateBeer class it as a golden ale (not to mention Little Creatures actually brew a pilsner) we haven’t let get in the way of a good pigeonholing. As far as he’s concerned, if it looks like a lager, it’s on his radar. Being a filtered bright beer puts it more or less up his (heavily carbonated) street.
It pours – as you’d expect – brilliantly clear and gold, and yields a centimetre of head with a small amount of rising carbonation. The aromas are hops, something like corn and a whiff of malt. The hop profile leans towards a pilsner-esque Saazy aroma. On the palate, mild hop bitterness with some malt pushing through, before a metallic lagery aftertaste. Drinkable but undemanding; however shelved next to their Pale Ale there’s really no contest.
