Sauce Brewing Piss-Weak Sauce – SUPERSEDED

Style
Session IPA
ABV
3.5%

Having been a keg only release since the day the brewery opened, Sauce’s Piss-Weak session IPA made a move into cans to test itself out in the wider but sometimes watery world of the mid strength market.

The name itself sits somewhere between irreverent, self deprecating, crass and amusing. So it kind of naturally lends itself to a certain market appeal, one that – if we’re honest – is a bit blokey and characterised by a liberal use of colloquialisms. There’s actually a precedent in this field: Melbourne institution The Great Britain Hotel used to take pleasure in serving up pints of Piss, a house lager, and Piss Weak, a lower alcohol version; since its former owners moved down the road to The Cherry Tree in Cremorne, you can find Piss there instead.

Stripping the label off Sauce’s version, what you’re left with is a beer that shows an impressive amount of flavour and body for something that comes in at a mere 3.5 percent ABV. To become that way, Piss-Weak has been dry hopped up the wazoo with Citra, Galaxy and Zythos varieties that give it a whole heap of citrus character and a level of bitterness not matched by some beers almost twice its size. While it may have become a kind of default description for any beer that describes itself as a session IPA, in this case it really does feel like a beer that punches above its weight.

Nick Oscilowski

Published March 31, 2018

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

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