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Brewed by Independent Breweries (New Zealand)
Style: Pale Lager
Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand

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RATINGS: 98   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.05   EST. CALORIES: 150   ABV: 5%
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A traditional German-style Premium Lager Beer brewed from only the finest natural ingredients.


MrRoss' rating

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
MrRoss (646) - Delta, British Columbia, - AUG 25, 2009
An okay little beer (well, little bottle). Pour, look, aroma were about average. Taste was a little better. Better than the Canadian-brewed Fosters, for example.


most recent ratings

1.9
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 8/20
Jimthechap (1195) - Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND - DEC 11, 2012
Cold, yellow, mostly odourless. It was touching 30 degrees in the shade when I knocked the top off and so it barely touched the sides. In this respect this beer was ideal but the flavour was barely there to be noticed. Brewed from only the finest natural ingredients? Well it must have gone wrong somewhere along the line.

0.7
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 2/20
petergaynor (100) - NEW ZEALAND - SEP 5, 2012
330ml bottle. Pours light tellow with thin white head. High carbonation. Aroma is sweet citrus and malt. Taste is lightly hopped, not much flavour.

1.9
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
deusax (387) - Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND - FEB 23, 2012
UPDATED: APR 23, 2012 Very ordinary pale lager. Strong malty flavour, lightly sour, very forgettable...

2.3
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
HeistAlmighty (818) - Saint John, New Brunswick, CANADA - AUG 7, 2011
330ml bottle as Bushman’s Premium Quality Lager, which claimed to be Australian. Classic lager taste. Seemed very similar to better quality Canadian lagers.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 12/20
reebtogi (3262) - Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA - JUL 26, 2011
bottled as Bushman’s Premium Lager, poured light amber in glass with white head that quickly dissipated, a little bit too malty with not enough hop, decent body for a lager.

0.8
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 1/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 2/20
mkel07 (2340) - Brisbane, AUSTRALIA - SEP 26, 2009
330ml bottle. Clear with a thick soft white foam head, well carbonated and amber in colour. Aromas of straw and wet cardboard. Dry finish and unpleasant flavour and very ordinary.

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
VerticalBaconStrips (1897) - Assat, Alberta, CANADA - JUN 2, 2009
Pale gold, froths up some white head that quickly dissapates and lots of bubbles. Smell is skunky with sweet malts, grass and some hops. Taste is on the watery side - slightly sweet, some flavour of malts and hops. Comes across thin with minor bitterness. Booooring. These beers are sooo boooring....but drinkable. Very forgetable. Claims that it is made in Melbourne, Australia.

2.7
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
ryano (11) - AUSTRALIA - JAN 15, 2009
not bad, cheap aussie imitation german beer.Malt overpowers most everything else.Sweet taste,alot better than most aussie lagers,good 4 a cheap beer.

1.9
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
ChrisTurner (204) - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA - MAY 24, 2008
Bottle -- Nondescript golden colour with quickly diminishing head that leaves a fair bit of lacing. Better than average aroma for a lager with the more prominant malt adding interest. Soapy mouthfeel. Flavour is malty with some twangy bitterness at the end. Pretty unexceptional. One bottle is enough. Best drunk with food as the malt gets cloying by itself.


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