A Beer In Review - Borambola's Tuckerbox Hoppy Lager

If you're not familiar with the Dog on the Tuckerbox story, http://thedogonthetuckerbox.com/ is, logically enough, a good place to start. I won't recount it here as I'm not much of an expert and the website is only a click away, I'm more well versed on the poems written about it. Taken from the poems/folk song page is the version I've heard most often before -

Nine Miles From Gundagai - Jack Moses

I've done my share of shearing sheep,

Of droving and all that;

And bogged a bullock team as well,

On a Murrumbidgee flat.

I've seen the bullock stretch and strain

And blink his bleary eye,

And the dog sit on the tuckerbox

Nine miles from Gundagai.

I've been jilted, jarred and crossed in love,

And sand-bagged in the dark,

Till if a mountain fell on me,

I'd treat it as a lark.

It's when you've got your bullocks bogged,

That's the time you flog and cry,

And the dog sits on the tuckerbox

Nine miles from Gundagai.

We've all got our little troubles,

In life's hard, thorny way.

Some strike them in a motor car

And others in a dray.

But when your dog and bullocks strike,

It ain't no apple pie,

And the dog sat on the tuckerbox

Nine miles from Gundagai

Name: Tuckerbox

Alcohol Content: 5% (1.3 standard drinks)

Served: Chilled, straight from the 330ml bottle to mouth

What it says-

"Like his counterpart on the tuckerbox, Rusty the Jack Russell terrier waited eagerly to greet visitors to Borambola Homestead. 

His luck run out before his master's when he met an 18 wheeler while chasing a bitch. His pudgy brother, Scruffy, now stands guard in his place."

What I says-

First glance: The fruity aroma hops straight up the nose, they certainly got the hoppy part right.

Flavour: Strong fruity flavour. Initial sip had it as being too much hops for mine, but after subsequent sips I've decided that there is quite a nice malt balance.

Verdict: I'm now looking at the empty bottle wishing there was a second one to follow it. Strong flavour, would perhaps get to be too much over a full session, but a very drinkable lager. If I owned a tuckerbox, I'd probably stock it with a 6 pack of Tuckerbox every Friday, just for emergencies like.

Score: 3.5 bottle caps

For more info visit borambola.com

Join me next week for Prickly Moses' Red Ale.