Wow, I’m impressed!
(as a disclaimer to any “real” brewers who might taste this – I’m talking relative to my other homebrew – not to a spectacular AG brew!)
With my latest brew, I bottled one bottle at racking time (while the real batch matured in a second fermenter), which turned out OK, but not that impressive (to be fair it had a bit of the mucky sediment at the end).
I just cracked open my first properly racked bottle of my second brew. It’s come out well ahead of what I expected.
It still has the same mediocre appearance and lack of head as my last brew, so no headway there (though I wasn’t expecting any) .
The aroma is fainter than I’d like, but is pleasant with (and I’ll risk using adjectives here) a mild grassy note (Google tells me I might be accurate).
The mouthfeel isn’t too thin and it’s carbonated just right. Feels good to me!
The taste is great as far as I’m concerned. It has a very noticeable hoppy note, with a slight spicy taste, which seems well balanced by the malt (not too overpowering) and the aftertaste is pleasant and lasts reasonably well.
I’d take a bottle of this over a dozen of Tui any day!
Yay, this is very heartening! I’ve just bought what is known in homebrewing as a “big f’ing pot”, so I can do a partial mash brew (a couple of steps up from what I’m doing). With that and the kegging stuff, I have fun times ahead!
Hmm, after tasting two glasses, another thing becomes apparent. The alcohol content is definitely higher than your average commercial beer! I’d better work out the numbers…
Cheers! *hic*
UPDATE: I’ve done a rough working out and it’s ~ 5.5% ABV. You despicable people who still think Tui is a beer have 4% ABV as a comparison. And Steineken is 5% 
Dude, the link in this post, “my second brew” made my Firefox go crazy opening multiple tabs. Does it do that on your Firefox, and can you fix it?
Actually. it doesn’t replicate for me either – maybe it was just a stuck button that one time.
It’s that dodgy Linux playing up ;-P