174 calories a serve out of a 500ml bottle of a 5.8% ABV beer, and at 48 IBU Is well in the top of the range (20-50) for the Pale Ale style. This would be about 2.28 standard drink units.
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of course the S-E-L-F-I-E[/caption]Hopsmacker is the reinvention of an award winning original recipe, a new world style Pale Ale brewed with bucket loads of NZ Riwaka hops and US Cascade hops. Original Hopsmacker was Champion Pale Ale, BrewNZ annual awards 2003, 2004.
Tasting notes:
Fresh and aromatic, bursting with passionfruit and citrus.
This is allegedly a corkingly good beer!.
One of those beers that does it foam out of the top of the bottle on opening, not a gush though, manageable, and unexpected sip of foam for me.
