Tubedinoz Wai-iti SMASH Homebrew Review

Tubedinoz Wai-iti SMASH
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Appearance:
Pours a fantastic burnt orange colour with honey highlights has a slight chill haze, but great looking beer specially for a single malt beer. Tight pure white head with great lacing.

Aroma:
sweet melon/marmalade/honey/grassy - very subtle hop aroma on the beer with a bready backbone. Unfortunately I think the beer was bottled too soon as it haze the case of the Big D. Has quite a prominent butter/butterscotch aroma to the beer.

Mouthfeel:
Light to medium body, leaning more to light, but which is quite nice as it lead the beer to a more sessionable quality. Carbonation is great with a pure white cap and small tight bubbles streaming up the glass.

Flavour:
A nice smooth bitterness that eases into a nice smooth sweetness. The melon for the hops is subtle, but unfortunately the Big D is more prominent and dominates majority of the flavours of the beer. Still a decent balanced beer with sweetness to bitterness but the diacetyl just dominates a bit too much.

Overall:
A very nice and smooth session beer which will be great for summer. There is a great sweet melon hop character with which is refreshing but delicate. The biggest problem I think with this beer is that it was bottled too soon as the diacetyl is strong with this one. It is still a great session beer and will go down great after mowing the lawn. Thanks to Dean for sharing with me, it is going down a great on a hot summer Sunday!