The Grifter Brewing Co Horse's Head

Style
Red Ale
ABV
5.5%

May I begin by apologising to Grifter’s designer. A friend said to me the picture on the can looks like a stylised wolf-horse-llama, and now that's all I can see.

Horse's Head - or Wolf-Horse-Llama’s Head, if you too are susceptible to the power of suggestion - is a Grifter seasonal that’s finally made it into cans for our takeaway pleasure. The brewery releases this as a winter seasonal but, if you ask me, it tastes like autumn. It pours a dark amber with a beige tinge to the head, but the body and flavours are lighter than you might expect from such a colour. Malt flavours of chocolate, rye toast and bacon smoke are all present, along with some hop notes of spice and dark fruits but none of these are heavy; they’re like that sophisticated smell that envelops you when you open the drawer of an old wooden writing desk. It tastes like mahogany and Ron Burgundy.

Pair with a wood-fired pizza and pretend for a few minutes that it's not in the coldest time of the year.

Mick Wust

Published June 25, 2020

Name
The Grifter Brewing Company
Address

1/391 Enmore Road
Marrickville
NSW 2204

Open Hours

Wed & Thur: 4pm to 10pm
Fri: 4pm to midnight
Sat: 12pm to 10pm
Sun: 4pm to 10pm

Bintani Abstrax B
S&W Big Pale B2

More from The Grifter Brewing Company

The Grifter Brewing Co XPA
XPA
4.4%
The Grifter Brewing Co Birra Quattro
Italian Pilsner
4.7%
The Grifter Brewing Co Lager
Lager
4.5%
The Grifter Brewing Co Sunshine XPA
XPA
4.0%
The Grifter Brewing Co Hand in Hand Lager & Fortune Teller Blueberry & Lavender Witbier
Lager & Witbier with fruit and spices
4.3% & 4.9%
The Grifter Brewing Co C-Boogie Cucumber Kolsch
Cucumber Kolsch
5.2%
The Grifter Brewing Co Acid Drop
Hoppy Sour
4.3%
The Grifter Brewing Co Pilsner (RETIRED)
Pilsner
4.4%
The Grifter Brewing Co Green & Gold Hop Harvest Pilsner
Fresh Hop Pilsner
4.5%
The Grifter Brewing Co & The Henson Neighbourhood NEIPA
NEIPA
6.2%
The Grifter Brewing Co Pearly White
Mid-Strength Witbier
3.5%
The Grifter Brewing Co The Passenger & Voodoo Paradise
Belgian Blonde & Coconut Milk Stout
5.3% & 5.8%
The Grifter Brewing Co Altered Beast
Altbier
4.8%
The Grifter Brewing Co Tuff-Nut
Coconut Lager
4.7%
The Grifter Brewing Co Pink Galah
Fruit Sour
4.5%
The Grifter Brewing Co & Coffee Alchemy Ceremony
Coffee Cream Ale
5.8%
The Grifter Brewing Co Medusa
IPA
5.9%
The Grifter Brewing Co Crocodile Tears
Double IPA
8.5%
The Grifter Brewing Co Pale Ale
Australian Pale Ale
5.0%
The Grifter Brewing Co Brainstorm
Session IPA
4.8%