If you're a regional brewery in Australia then it pays to have a midstrength on your lineup. If you can make it a flavoursome little bugger too then all the better. Thankfully for the beer lovers of Wagga, Thirsty Crow has one of the best low ABV beers you'll find in the form of The Pocket Rocket – formerly known as Red Light.
Multiple trophy-winning brewer Craig Wealands managed to concoct a rusty copper-coloured treat that skimps on neither flavour or aroma, combining specialty malts (these days from local malster Voyager) with New World hops to create a beer that kicks off with citrus fruit aromas, a touch of toasted toffee malt and a little nuttiness and backs them up with similar flavours and a body that will have you shaking your head at its mere 2.9 percent booze.
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