Bridge Road Brewers Little Bling

Bridge Road Brewers

Published March 13, 2015

First there was Bling. Then came Bling Bling. Next up was the new, improved Bling. And now there’s Little Bling, as Bridge Road adds a third blingy string to its roster of IPAs (not counting the rather lengthy list of single hop IPAs, such as Galaxy, Summer, (St)Ella, Vic Secret, even Pride of Ringwood, of course).

The Little Bling is, as the name suggests, the smallest of the Bling family but equally eye-catching in its choice of clothing, opting for a mildly hallucinatory skin of vision-wobbling boldness. And it is, in the spirit of the phrase used by Russell Crowe to describe ciggies in The Insider, effectively designed to be a “lupulin delivery system”; in other words to convey as much hoppiness to the drinker as possible without pumping too much in the way of booze into them.

This it does via the means of a rather pretty looking, vaguely hazy, rust-coloured drink, with the hop aromas it delivers a melange of stewed citrusy, grassy and piney sorts. The clue that the beer is lower in alcohol than the norm for such a hoppy beer is in the mouth, where it’s pretty light across the palate thanks to a malt character that's restrained thus paving the way for the hops to finish things off with a distinct and lingering bitterness.

Style
Session IPA
ABV
3.5%
Stockists

Bridge Road Brewers

Nationwide at good beer venues in bottle and on tap

Name
Bridge Road Brewers
Address

Old Coach House
Ford Street
Beechworth VIC 3747

Phone
(03) 5728 2703
Open Hours

Lunch: 7 days from midday to 3pm
Dinner: Thurs to Sun from 6pm to 8.30pm
Brewery door open daily from 11am

Tours

Each Saturday at 11am

Current Cabal offers

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