Hop-forward beers with a dense haze were once as bohemian as beer came. OK, so maybe they weren't as bohemian as an actual Bohemian pilsner but they were reserved for a small band of breweries making incredibly hoppy IPAs that more traditional brewers thought were faulty.
But times change and so does the beer, with many Australian brewers not just making hazy IPAs but turning to more seassionable hazy pales too. Red Duck Brewing's Is This Just Fantasy is such a beer, with the Ballarat brewery's hazy pale a rhapsody of mango, tart nectarine and ripe pineapple. Galileo, Wayne and Garth would all be proud...
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