2.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
AMAZING!!! This isn’t horrible. OK, now that we have that out of the way, it isn’t brilliant, but somehow they have made a beer that is not horrible.
Rather than launch a new beer, Fosters have just created a VB sub brand which isn’t the dummest move in the world and this is fairly and squarely aimed at the Kirin and Becks drinkers. Packaged in a similar bottle to Becks, it is advertising this is brewed with 4 ingredients only, Malt, Hops, Yeast & Water. Hang on a sec, shouldn’t all their other beers contain the same mere 4 ingredients? Obviously not, which confirms what we all knew.
Anyway, the beer itself, aroma is a slightly skunky/hoppy aroma, appearence is medium straw with an initially big head that thins out quickly. Flavour is a bit on the thin side, there is an initial touch of white peach and a slight bitterness at the end.
If imitation is a form of flattery, there are a few brewers out there who must be feeling a bit flattered.
2.4 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
The funky, unpleasant aroma that is common to many CUB beers hits as soon as the bottle is opened. Not pleasant. Slightly cloudy amber appearance, reasonably high carbonation. Tart, light flavour; not terrible - perhaps a bit watery.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at home.
Clear yellow with a white head. Aroma moderate malty (caramel), light hoppy. Flavor moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body. OK.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
good beer
decent taste and color combination, with a mild alcohol content.
good for social drinking
1.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottle, pours clear golden with white head. Watery lager, with some citrus in aroma. Not good.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pale yellow color with white foamy head, dough aroma, slighly bitter hops taste, abrupt finish. Generic beer but not bad.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
375ml bottle, 4.6% a/v. Pours a slightly dark lager colour, with a mediocre white head. Aroma is very average lager fair, nothing worth noting at all. Taste is also very average however well balanced, and a good every day brew. Aftertaste is very normal and nothing worth commentig on. Overall.. pretty average.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Kinda lke Carlton Draft off the tap (think lifeless slightly stale malt character). Nose isn’t too bad with a mild hoppy note. Notwithstanding the crap flavours there is an attractive crispness in the structure.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle into its own glass. Doesn’t appear bright, there is a mild haze (chill haze?) to it. Forced carbonation plays with the soda-pop bubbles evident in its medium gold body. A thin lather of white tops it off but is short lived. Herbal, peppery and weedy nose, very clean. Mildly sweet, biscuity malt start, dries out from then on, the body quite light and carbonation adequate and spritzy. Lime-like sourness down the sides, peppery back-end with a short bitter bite on the swallow. Ends crisp, clean and vacant. It has flavour, merited, a lot better than its woeful green big brother. Can’t complain on this one! (35,5cL, BB 05/06/11, Thirsty Camel Butler)
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