Castlemaine Perkins XXXX Summer Bright Lager

Brewed by Castlemaine Perkins (Lion Nathan Co.)
Style: Pale Lager
Milton, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Pale gold pour medium carbonation aroma some fruit mild malt sweet biscuit flavour sweet bland biscuit taste some fruit hop taste mild rouigh bitter takes some getting use to finish rough but not a loss okay bitter malt very sweet but metallic like taste

Bottle @ Party

If I had to take a guess I’d say this beer was trying to breach the markets held by nasty low-carb beers and Corona. It tastes like a debased Corona (which is hard to believe), looks very pale, has no head and the aroma is of cardboard mostly, with a hint of zesty lemon. You don’t buy this for enjoyment, you buy it to down quickly and without regrets at house parties. Save the good stuff for better times.

Might be bright ad summer orientated but still a pretty average PL. This does at least have traces, albeit slight, of spice and lemon. Corona knock-off? If so not a bad effort.

Bottle. A clear golden beer with hardly any head. Nose and taste of syrupy sweetcorn malts with no hop presence to speak of. Some horrible chemical flavours as well. Watery thin palate. A worse than average Mexican-style pale lager.

Everything has been done to this ’beer’ to make it ’not beer’. Pretty much like all the other low carb low taste clear bottle efforts out there. Sure it will appeal to many though.

Bottle - Pale yellow with a frothy white head, quite effervescent. Mainly cardboard on the aroma. Very little taste and very watery.

XXXX version of corona. Not much on offer. Light taste with a surpassing bitterness. Bit more flavour than you would expect but over all nothing really exciting.

Bottle of highly carbonated, yellowish, watery, insipid, tasteless wet stuff, with a thin white head.

Bottle. Pours a light gold color with a small white head. Nose is weak. Sweet with slight citrus, grass, mustiness. Watery on the palate, fairly sweet, a bit of orange flavor, hops are almost absent. The finish...nothing but a bit of sweetness. Overall nothing but a sweet version of every light lager. Didn’t even meet my low expectations.

Ugh - smells like VB! Bland golden colour with moderate carbonation and little head, very much resembles the aforementioned bitter disaster. Watery, wheat flavour with a bitter aftertaste. Its virtually tasteless to be honest, glass of water would have done just fine.

Oh, why did I bother. To go two years without rating on this site and have this as one of my first beers.
From the aforementioned Corona-like bottle. Pours a typically bland, dull medium gold. Head fails to rise, carbonation is barely evident. Good start in the aroma with a musty and dank, tinny PofR, boiled cabbage and damp cardboard notes coming through. Ugh in the mouth, can’t recognise anything Summery about it except it getting you pissed at Schoolies quicker than its ’Gold’ brother. Stale and flat taste, tinny and oddly nutty (unsalted peanuts?). Body is light, the mouthfeel is like lathering up soap and washing it down with alkalined shards of aluminium. Finish is well still there, wish it would disappear faster. An embarrassing effort given the level of brewing excellence being pumped out in Oz at the moment. Low-Carb, pfffft. Scrap this one!!! (33cL, BB 06/07/11)