Vailima
Samoa Breweries / Paradise Beverages in Apia, Samoa 🇼🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.28
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3.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
(Sample from a 1 litre plastic bottle, thanks brunnsbe, 20160726) The beer poure pale golden. Its head was non-existent. Aroma had sweetness, paper and surprising fruity notes. Palate was light bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were paper, wet cardboad and sweetness. A rather well preserved one even though the beer was old. I expected worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2016
at 07:15
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled (thanks brunnsbe!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is herbal, grassy, some cardboard and mild sweet old malts. Flavour is very similar with also some slight notes of grains.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2016
at 23:59
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Gold with an inch of white head that lasts OK. Clean aroma of hay and light spices. Light bodied. Mild grainy sweetness, pepper, grass. Touch of sourness you often pick up in light lagers. Moderate but slightly harsh bitterness in a dry finish. I guess this is good nick. "May I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?"
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2015
at 05:24
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
330ml bottle into glass. Green bottle, skunk nose. Nose does not get better in the glass. Pale yellow, good head, even carbonation. Chalky mineral water taste. Abrupt slight malt finish. It’s 37 degrees Celsius in Sydney this evening and this beer makes perfect sense right now.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2015
at 01:26
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Vailima (by Samoa Breweries (Paradise Beverages Fiji - Coca-Cola Amatil)):
Aroma: 3/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 1.7/5
21/IX/2012 - 355ml bottle @ home - BB: 26/X/12 (2012-1060) Thanks to Thomas and Annelies for the bottle!
Clear pale yellowish beer, big creamy white head with some irregular bubbles, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: corn, rice, grains, bit metallic, hay, slightly spicy touch. MF: ok carbon, light body. Taste: carbon sour first, then sweet sugary, grains, overripe fruits, little bitter. Aftertaste: medicinal bitterness, bit metallic, watery. Meh, another country tick, right? ;-)
Aroma: 3/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 1.7/5
21/IX/2012 - 355ml bottle @ home - BB: 26/X/12 (2012-1060) Thanks to Thomas and Annelies for the bottle!
Clear pale yellowish beer, big creamy white head with some irregular bubbles, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: corn, rice, grains, bit metallic, hay, slightly spicy touch. MF: ok carbon, light body. Taste: carbon sour first, then sweet sugary, grains, overripe fruits, little bitter. Aftertaste: medicinal bitterness, bit metallic, watery. Meh, another country tick, right? ;-)
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2012
at 10:06
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
9th September 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Bottle in Raratonga. Unusually sour citrus in this lager but overall has a watery body. Refreshes well though.
Warning! Early amateur rating! Bottle in Raratonga. Unusually sour citrus in this lager but overall has a watery body. Refreshes well though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2011
at 10:22
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
35.5 cL bottle, thanks to Papsoe. Pours clear and golden yellow with a lacing white head. Dry cornish and slight grainy aroma. Acidic and slight citric initial flavour followed. Cornish. Citric and sourish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2008
at 00:52
3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of my colleague Hans-Jørgen. Clear, pale golden with a white head. Fairly fresh hop aroma. Medium body dominated by brewing cereal and some odd accents that certainly don’t belong there - pineapple?? Basically no bitterness. Rather flawed but probably does the trick under the Pacific sky. 270707
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2007
at 07:10
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Pale blond color. Poor aroma and poor beer, as many other Pale Lagers. Dry.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2006
at 16:14
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
A pale yellow beer with a thin white head. The aroma has light notes of hops and malt on a sourish brewing cereal back ground. The flavor is malty with the sourish edge from the brewing cereal.
Tried
on 29 May 2006
at 12:40