Waiheke Island Brewery Onetangi Dark Ale
by Fez Broadbent
(Beer Delegate, New Zealand)
Waiheke Island Brewery Onetangi Dark Ale
Waiheke Island Brewery, New Zealand
An almost atypical porter in every way with supreme emphasis on "almost". Like most porters, the roasted malt coffee taste comes through strong but this has a mirrored and unique heavy oak finish.
Brewed from East Kent Goldings hops which lend the alluring dark texture, this is a drop best had with something preferably thick and red (of the steak variety). Its namesake, Onetangi Bay, is the largest and most beautiful bay on the island. A place I visited recently in the winter on a quick one day tour of the island. The weather was pretty bad, it being winter and all, but we had a really great time and the bay stuck out in my mind as a kind of place I could live peacefully for a time while experiencing what it really means to be alive in a spiritual sense. There are few places like that in New Zealand that I have come across and this was one of them.
The beer follows along that line in being the more natural and earthy of the three, definitely the best choice to have last in the Waiheke Island Brewery taster set.
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