Vanuatu Brewing Limited (Tusker) Premium (Vanuatu)

Premium (Vanuatu)

 

Vanuatu Brewing Limited (Tusker) in Port Vila, Vanuatu 🇻🇺

  Lager - Premium Regular
Score
4.49
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 31
The alcohol content is 5% by volume producing a dry, estery, fruity flavored beer that is easy and enjoyable to drink. Tusker Premium has a mild bitterness achieved by using specially selected hops. A special brewery owned yeast strain gives Tusker its unique character and freshness.
 

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4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Apparently Kenya's Tusker pale lager has this 'branch' in the Vanuatu island state in the Southern Pacific, where this variant is locally brewed, much to my surprise. Never though to taste a drop of beer coming from Vanuatu so cheers again to tderoeck. Should normally form a moussey, snow white, thick head, but the tasted sample was dead as a dodo (which is from Mauritius, not Vanuatu), with very pale brass colour rather than actual gold (one of the palest pale lagers I had seen in a long time). Aroma of fried rice, white pepper, bird seed, oxidized green apple, unripe banana peel. Sweetish, simplistic onset, oxidized apple and vague unripe banana again, slick and very thin cereally middle, bit metallic, with this apple-ish oxidation returning over a structure so feeble that it crushes underneath it - with no hop bitterness whatsoever to come and save the day. Probably very bland even when fresh - but I do not recall the original Kenyan Tusker, which I had in fresh condition not that long ago, to be this bland and thin... I can only conclude that this Vanuatu version is a diluted carbon copy of the original, which is obviously not the 'fullest' beer to begin with either - so very little remains, I am afraid...

Tried on 17 Jan 2026 at 02:30


2.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

Sampled at Tim's place, huge thanks! Clear pale golden color without any sort of head. Aroma and flavor are malts, cardboard notes, rice. Very watery.

Tried on 20 Dec 2025 at 14:52


3.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

Süßer hellmalziger Beginn. Halbwegs süffig, wässrig, kurzer Abgang. Meh. 7/4/6/5/7/5

Tried from Bottle on 19 Dec 2025 at 20:40


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Tried on 18 Dec 2025 at 23:00


3

Shared with Bergstaden.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2025 at 18:22


2

Thanks for sharing Chris

Tried on 05 Sep 2025 at 14:50


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

200ml sample, thanks to Grumbo. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of light citrus, grain, grass & light malt. Moderate body. Dry crisp light bitter finish. Better than expected, even enjoyable

Tried from Can on 13 Jan 2025 at 20:51


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4

Many thanks for this beer to mr Marek (new Country..at all) Nazwa od razu przychodzi mi zblizone do nazwiska pewnego socjalistycznego polityka, wiec to juz pierwszy minus. Piana srednia ale trwala, zlociste, jasniutkie, niemal slomkowe, wodniste, bez chmielu takie do pokosztowania zaliczenia i wylania.

Tried on 09 Aug 2024 at 19:22


6.6

Vanuatu 🇻🇺

Thanks, Graham B. !!!

Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2023 at 21:30


6

Country 166, Vanuatu 🇻🇺 thanks to the star of this show, Graham B.! Would be great on an island.

Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2023 at 21:30