Tooheys Maxim

Brewed by Tooheys (Lion Nathan Co.)
Style: Pale Lager
Lidcombe, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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bought it on special the other day. already forgot what it tastes like

i’m sick of this thoughtless commercial crap, it tastes like nothing.

In the bottle from Bottle-o in Hamilton. Pours gold with a poofy white head. Does not have very much in aroma, but does have a pronounced hop flavor. Bitter with a bit of fruitiness. I don’t understand the "twice fermented" description leading to fewer calories, but this this seems a touch better than many of the other swills I’ve had in Oz.

The appearance is golden straw with a good small head good lacing and then not much else. Some malt caramel flavours, grassy hop aroma and light bitterness. Maybe if they put the calories back it would have more taste.

Bottled. At Randwick Golf Club, Sydney, Oz. Light golden fizz, slightly, sweet, slightly bitter. Just a low carb nonsense beer.

Geez, any beer that gives itself a trendy European name can't be any good. Certainly is low in calories as it is thin thin thin!

You don’t see this stuff much any more, which hopefully is a sign that it failed to find a market. It’s one of those lower-cal beers that uses a "special brewing process" to slash the calorie count by 20%. Pours clear gold with a reasonable 1cm head showing fair length. The aroma is faint and indeterminate but at least has nothing offensive. Some malt and grassy hops. Big fizzy wash in the mouth dissipating to a mild bitter swallow. Hello taste? It’s vaguely malty in the middle and vaguely hoppy in the finish but there’s really very little going on here. They’ve dropped the abv to 4.6%, which doesn’t help. This is like the quiet kid at school that no one liked or disliked because no one could be bothered either way. (375ml bottle, Amatos, bb 30/11/05)

A beer of little merit. Pours a cheap and nasty yellow piss like colour with no head. After that is cardboard and rank chemicals. The marketing is nonesense. I am plumbing the depths now to increase my number of beers rated on this cursed website.

Pretty dark for the style. Grassy, raspberry cordial aroma with some caramel. Cidery, some malt and metal flavour. Not that great but with 20% less calories at least I lost some weight.

Was intriuged by this so I got a mate to bring a carton down to Vic from NSW on the weekend. I looked at the label and did my maths. According to my logic, a stubbie of...let's say VB...is about 143 calories. A stubby of this stuff is about 123. Now I'm no genius, but I'd hardly go out of my way to drink something that was just 20 calories less than other, better-tasting beers. Drink 10 beers and save 200 calories. my argument is is you're drinking 10 beers then you're not really serious about losing weight are you. Having got that off my chest I found this beer to be perfectly drinkable but very unremarkable. Tastes a bit smoother than Tooheys Red (but that wouldn't be too hard). I'd knock a few of these back no problems and it won't take me too long to finish off the carton but I won't be placing any special orders for this stuff again.