Melbourne Bitter

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Pale Lager
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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

Terrible. Must be a local thing but I cannot taste anything to make me think this is still being sold.

Melbourne, Australia - Spring 2007 Can Rather one dimensioned - the color is OK

not vegetarian-friendly. otherwise from what i remember, a watery macro lager. poor excuse for beer. Light beer is better.

A terrible macro lager. Drinkable only on a very hot day and there is nothing else available

If VB is known as the Green Death, This is the Red Death......Horrid stuff, I would rather drink light beer

This one has a red label so you can distinguish it from VB. Because after a couple of mouthfuls, you can’t tell the difference taste-wise. That said, Melbourne Bitter drinkers like to think of themselves as a step up from VB drinkers. I don’t know how this works. Maybe they’re mostly from Melbourne and can’t drink VB there because, Jesus, they drink that in Sydney, mate.

An old favorite of mine, this is the height of Australian pale lagers for me. Its clean (enough), its bitter, its a bit malty and yeasty, and its usually quite cheap. After being away from Australia for a year, then to drink one of these again... you realize that it offers a flavour that you find nowhere else. Perhaps its the abrasive pride of ringwood hops, maybe its the loads of adjuncts they bulk the alcohol with... who knows. Its just a special beer and underated in the Victorian beer-drinking population.

375 ml can - Pale yellow with a thin white head. Thin bodied, medium carbonation, artificial tasting. Similar to Fosters only with a slightly more bitter, metallic finish.