Paradox - Renaissance Brewing

dgilks

Australia

4/5  rDev +10.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Paradox pours a clear golden colour with a nice white head. It has a nice, clean citrus hop taste. The small head helps to deliver a clean, citric hop aroma. Very light malt character. Clean, fruity and tasty. Medium-light body and moderately high carbonation.

Serving type: on-tap

08-28-2010 07:09:49 | More by dgilks

CrazyDavros

Australia

3.48/5  rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.5

Pours amber with a large, lasting head. Nose shows soft tropical fruit and honey. Nectarines, lychee, pears, floral notes. Also some cookie dough-like malt. Very nice. Similar flavours, more of the cookie dough character and overt floral notes, along with some spicy hops. Carbonation is much too high, annoyingly so.

Serving type: bottle

11-22-2012 03:01:43 | More by CrazyDavros

lacqueredmouse

Australia

3.2/5  rDev -11.8%
look: 2 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

Pours a murky orange brown colour, with a very aerated head of white bubbles, that look very insipid. No lacing either. I have to say, I'm not a fan very much at all. It really doesn't look like something I want to drink.

Fortunately, it's uphill from here. Nose is a wonderfully floral and fruity melange of tropical flavoured New Zealand hops. Passionfruit, stonefruit and ripe pineapple. Very nice, and such a classic contemporary New Zealand craft beer character.

Taste is woefully thin. Not a lot of character, and not much bitterness from the hops - surprising given the big hop presence on the nose. Quite watery, and the mouthfeel is pretty dull.

Yep, this is something of a rollercoaster ride. Lovely nose, but that's by far and away its best character. Thin and watery. Drinkable in a way, but only because it's not particularly dangerous or confronting.

Serving type: bottle

08-04-2010 09:59:11 | More by lacqueredmouse

laituegonflable

Australia

3.38/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5

Pours a pale golden colour with a lot of fizz. Head is decent at first, sinks a bit, leaves a crown of white bubbles. Some lace but not much. Looks alright, pretty standard.

Sweet, malty nose, with a lot of caramel, a slight salty edge and a bit of tartness, citric in character. Hint of West Coast hops giving off some tropical esters. The combination of aromas makes it overall kind of urine-esque in character, and I hate to say that because it's not actually bad at all, there is just a slightly odd character to it and that needs to be noted. But its uniqueness is endearing, and for the most part it's actually a delightful smell.

Tastes a bit savoury, lacking in the caramel character of the nose. Has a malty backbone, but doesn't taste like it, just gives an underlying richness. Mid-palate gives off an umami flavour, with a mild, fruit peel bitterness, then finishes with hints of steamed vegetables and green tea. There is a slight honey character that emerges at the end to sweeten the deal, but overall the thing tastes a bit under-cooked. The flavours are slightly weak at times, but they're too strong at the front and back to be judged as intentionally mild and drinkable. Decent, just not very interesting where it counts.

Mouthfeel is largely thick and soupy, with a bit of unwelcome fizz at the back, not a great merger of textures.

I wouldn't call this a brilliant beer but it's drinkable. There's enough to like here but nothing really to love.

Serving type: bottle

03-31-2010 03:01:35 | More by laituegonflable

brendan13

Australia

4.2/5  rDev +15.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

A - Pours a slightly cloudy light golden straw colour with a couple of centimetres of white head that falls away fairly quickly.
S - Nice tropical fruit hop notes; passionfruit and pineapple some very vauge biscuity hints.
T - WOW - this reminds me of the "tropical fruit drink" you get in those waxed cartons. Like the smell passionfruit and pineapple are the main flavours that come through. Also a bit of biscuity malt to balance it.
M - Quite light bodied with a medium to high carbonation.
D - Could do with a touch more body. Other than that this is a damn good "Summer Ale" when there are so many horrid ones.

Serving type: bottle

05-19-2009 12:10:16 | More by brendan13