Sauce Brewing Pacific Ale

Style
Mid-Strength Pacific Ale
ABV
3.5%

As a brewery known for doing weird stuff (even by Marrickville standards), when I opened this delivery from Sauce I expected to be on the receiving end of some sort of prank. Inside I found a no-nonsense Pacific Ale, a far cry from the DDH IIPA ACAB brews that make up their usual special batches. But hey, it’s hot and I’m thirsty!

Pacific Ale pours cloudy, the colour of caramelised pineapple flesh, with a nice foamy head that can’t quite say goodbye. The aroma is an absolute knockout, an intoxicating mix of passionfruit, citrus, summer and all the good things in adverts. It both looks and smells like a beer twice its 3.5 percent ABV.

These potent scents form a pleasant top taste that fist bumps your tongue before ducking off for a surf. There is a refreshing, almost cleansing, quality to Pacific Ale that makes each gulp a joy, largely due to the lower alcohol content. The hops get the last laugh, though, with a little giggle of Galaxy and Eclipse settling in your cheeks and gums.

In time for summer 2022, Sauce have released a beer that balances flavour and refreshment so well it will make the most stringent, uptight, jeans-at-the-beach craft beer drinker request one in a stubby holder.

Benedict Kennedy-Cox

Published November 25, 2022

Name
Sauce Brewing Co
Address

1A Mitchell St
Marrickville
NSW 2204

Phone
(02) 9145 8288
Open Hours

Taproom:
Weds & Thurs: 4pm to 9pm
Fri & Sat: 11:30am to 10pm
Sunday: 11:30am to 9pm

Takeaways
Mon to Fri: 10am to 4pm, and when the Taproom is open

Regular events

Food trucks every weekend
Thursday Trivia - 7pm in the beer garden

Bintani Abstrax B
S&W Big Pale B2

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