Victoria Bitter

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

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

Golden color with a white head. Lacks unique character and flavours. One of last choice options.

Bottle at Bishop Arms Gothenburg. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is apple, fruit, hop, Flavour is apple, fruit, hop.

Surprised to see the ratings are so low for this. I like it. Deep headless amber. Offensively metallic nose with a waft of fruit. Quite a tastily rounded balance of bready malt and very abrupt, sharply yeasty dryness unusual in either a lager or bitter. A firm, not unpleasantly metallic bitterness. Is it meant to taste like this?

Bottle. Dark golden colour with small white head. Aroma and flavour is malty with a bitter finish.

In the can aboard United Airlines to Sydney. In the stubbie bottle at Ippon Sushi bar in Chinatown. Pours a rich gold color with a big poofy white head. I soon learned that this was the normative appearance of Australian beer. Has a strong lager yeast aroma. This is a mild beer with medium carbonation. I’m not sure why this is called a "bitter" as it is a fairly non-descript pale lager. Great at quenching wasabi. Leaves a mild residual hop bitterness on an otherwise forgetful palate. This is the ubiquitous beer (along with Tooheys New) in New South Wales.

UPDATED: SEP 16, 2006 Clear yellow with no head. Corn and cat urine flavour. Soft drink carbonation. Maybe that’s what Victoria tasted like, poor prince Albert.

Beer 29 Summer 2006 trip in Europe. Drank on 7/3/06 in the bottle at The Delerium Cafe in Brussels. I thought why not try the supposedly real macro of Australia if I had the chance. Its a light drinkable beer with not much there. Glad I tried it, but I won’t seek out again any time soon.

Bottle. Clear, deep golden with a rather small head. Strange aroma, somewhat herbal. Flavours are sweet and herbal also, worse than the aroma. Even the local Ringnes lager is better. Down the drain - hope it does not pollute- not worth the calories. Shame on the Systembolaget for stocking this as beer.