hopIQ found 10 beers with the same dry and crisp character as Hawke's Mid-Lager. Hawke's Mid-Lager is a 3.5 per cent mid-strength lager that was sold as Hawke's Underdog, a nod to Australia's 1983 America's Cup win, until the brewery renamed it in 2025 with the recipe unchanged. A single addition of Amarillo hops gives a gentle, sweet citrus of orange and tangerine on the nose and palate, set against light, bready pale malt. The body is crisp and lean, the carbonation lively, and the finish dry and clean with a light grainy note. Ranked by flavour match rather than popularity.
Closest match: East Coast Crisp — 82%. No twin in the catalogue yet.
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