3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
This is from the "Beers down under" 6 pack from Australia. This offering IMO is the best of the 6 pack poured a golden yellow with a soft white head. The aroma is fresh, somewhat floural, a malty caramel presence is faint. The taste is sweet, more of a mashmallow sugary presence then the nose let on. There is a decent hop bitterness for balance, the mouthfeel is syrupy that surprisingly coats the throat with a bit of bitter grapefruit honey sweetness in the finish.
0.5 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 1/20
Abominable. The taste of chemicals is overbearing. Harsh and nasty. No wonder it is served at a temperature low enough to avoid having to taste this carbonated wees.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at Wetherspoons, Manchester 30/05/2005
Clear golden coloured with some alcohol present. Crisp slightly dry full malt finish.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle. White head. Golden boday. Grassy aroma. Weak and watery hops flavor. Hardly offending anybody, should rather boring a good deal of people.
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Rather bland with a sweet and sour taste to it. Taste is accetable a low degrees, but a low carbonation and sourness makes it terrible at higher temperatures.
2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Small, white head, clear yellow body. Sourish, marzipany aroma with floral hop notes. Sour, bitter taste with vague floral hop notes. Metallic sourish taste lingering. Yuck! This is awful! What’s going on? Why did they make it like this? (Bought it thinking it was a UK-style bitter , only to get a rude surprise.)
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled. A copper coloured lager with a malty grassy aroma. The taste is quite malty and sweetish. It is actually quite crisp and drinkable. Fairly decent.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
VB isnt actually that bitter. I know there are many that would disagree with me on this one but really there are many beers (such as Emu Bitter) that are harshly bitter and leave a worse taste in your mouth. This stuff isnt great by any means but it is pretty easy to drink and is lovely on a summers day. You really have to be in the mood for it though.. sometimes it goes down easier than others. As a fairly standard, run of the mill Aussie lager I still can’t understand why this beer outsells all others in Australia and continues to be an Aussie icon. Im pretty sure its the advertising and the famous VB music that has done it!!
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