Victoria Bitter Midstrength

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

Another rather thin and watery, mass-produced Australian beer. This is the sort of stuff you buy a case of for a house party, not something you buy to savor and compare tasting notes. But you could do worse. A cold VB on a hot Australian day can work wonders.

This beer wishes it was XXXX gold. and tastes like VB missing its legs. Still it is better than being offered a cartlon mid. I would buy either this or gold depending what is on sale.

Hmm. Interesting. Its not too bad. The alchohol is kinda weak. Overall its got a decent flavor and is worth a try.

Clear but dull pale gold body with a thin head. Aroma of malt that has been left out in the rain (like wet socks). Smooth but bland taste it is watery and thin and like most midstrengths you can take it or leave it.

375ml bottle. Bland to look at when poured with a taste to match. Thin and watery with no head, small white bubbles only. Skunky aroma with a heavy hop mixture. Bland taste and texture, not flavoursome at all.

Mildly better than VB for some reason (not as much metallic aftertaste). Still cheap and nasty though. An pretty poor attempt to counter Tooheys XXXX Gold. Shocka of marketing... puke yellow to go with the puke taste.

Aww, heck , we all know marketing sells beer. Apparently the Eastern states don’t like mid-strength and the only Mid’s that sell don’t comply with ’south of the bourders’ as it seems XXXX is crunching over in big numbers in Victoria and the New South of Wales. Could this kerb it, I’m fussed, I rate XXXX as the absolute bottom of beers and a struggle for dominance is in my opinion a sordid, can’t quite breath, can’t quite vomit, comedy of errors, in which I couldn’t the least bit care the victor.
In the glass the wife’s first comment was it looked like Angostura - lemon, lime, bitter mix I’m certain the same brewer/conglomerate owns. Its bright, a seminal sparkling orange gold with so much fizz adhered to the side of the glass I must concur it does look like soft-drink. The head a sad form, the only description I could muster was of a locked up release of phlegmish saliva, all loose white yuk and mess. Onto the beer. A waft from the glass, it is feint, is dank, staling, cardboardy, and ofcourse metallic, tinny.
As acrid and recursive on the palate as the green ’B’ though this does save grace with the inclusion of toasted malt. It has malt flavour, does it save it?
Typically flabby in mouth feel, it has fizz upfront, but how does VB become heavy so easily from tip to mid-palate. Finish is metallic, very tinny and it lingers. Heavy, just after one, how can this rival Carlton Mid and XXXX, and is this just another shallow attempt forfeiting marketing at products each and all own. This beer is sadly Australia, 25 years ago. Acrid and like a rusting Kingswood come the Winter rain. Flabby like liquid Sao biscuits. Quite sad, really, the state of big brewery brewing. (37,5cL bottle, 21/10/07, The Beer Store Morley)

A little on the thin and watery side with a high carbonation. Mild to moderate bitterness with a slight metallic taste. Drinkable (it must be as I just drank it) but but just as uninteresting as most other mass produced pale lagers