Castlemaine XXXX (UK)

Brewed by Samlesbury (InBev UK - InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Preston, England

A truly terrible lager. Please people, never buy this, so we can try to rid our pubs and bars of this xxxxing disgraceful australian effort.

aussie beer brewed in the uk, its fairly shite but its cheap and drinkable. tastes better after a few.

Canned Golden. Huge white head. Pungent, sweetish aroma. Ok maltiness with notes of sweet licorice.

440ml Can. Gold with a trace of white head; chemicla aroma, with traces of artificial sweeteners; tastes like Irn-Bru (a carbonated beverage popular in Scotland). Apparently this is "brewed using imported...hops from Australia" - so I guess they must have been mixed with some pretty crappy hops from somewhere else - for alternatively Australian hops aren’t very good.

I thought I’d never say this but "I’d rather have a Fosters".

Rubbish - Sweetish, amber in colour, weak and no taste. Would give Foster’s, Carling and Carlsberg a run for their money in the shitness stakes! Some people (rightly) refer to Australians as "cons"; I say the pretence that this substance is a lager is, in itself, a "con"! Australians can play cricket, but they should accept that their wines are horrible and they can’t make beer. In the advert for this dross, some con claims: "Australians wouldn’t give a XXXX for any other beer!". I think a more apt advert idea would be for some fat, blonde, sweaty old Aussie (i.e. Shane Warne) to pour some Castelmaine on the "barbie" (BBQ) and exclaim: "Even kangaroos/abos/koalas/poms [*delete as appropriate] wouldn’t drink this XXXX [shit]!" If this filth is what the convicts serve up in their pubs, old Steve (sting-ray) Irvine had a lucky escape! Crikey!!!!

Can 50cl. Pouerd a watery pale gold with a wispy, weak head that quickly fades. Dull aroma of sweet hops. Very basic flavour of hops, but dominated by a watery taste. You are left with a slightly acidic oily citrus taste, but not for long. The palate is thin. Average cheap macrobrew lager.

You know your evening’s been a bit of a disappointment when this is the best thing you’ve sampled. Thinnish and headless, but some surprisingly OK smoky malt and a faintly bready aftertaste. Even a vaguely woody sourness/dryness. The hops have not been completely destroyed. Can this really be XXXX?

pint @club: Shite. Very poor lager. Crap gasoline flavor. nuff said. I didn’t like it at all. Stay away from this stuff