Castlemaine XXXX (UK)
Samlesbury in Preston, Lancashire, England 🏴
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.43
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Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Can, drunk in the train from The Hague to Hengelo. Bought in Wijn en Bierboetiek, The Hague. Metallic and grainy. Thin. Hints of orange. There is some distant bitterness, probably not really from Pride of Ringwood hops, but a more nasty bitterness not taken from hops. Nutty. Cardboard. Not good.
Grumbo (24387) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle. UK brewed. Backlog rating from my bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. Tasting notes not kept, just rating.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Can (BBE looks like 2009, but could be 2008 too). Hilarious find on the flea market in Palosaari, Vaasa, and I took the chance to buy it for 2 euros, with the thought that it probably wasn’t any good to begin with. Yellowish golden colour with a small white head. Bubbly and crisp carbonation still. Aroma is grassy, herbal, earthy and some bready malts. Flavour is quite similar, but also has a quite evident grainy and some cooked vegetably notes to it.
Olut (21769) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
What the four X’s stand for might sum this lager up, pretty poor bog-standard stuff.
yngwie (24278) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle at Berliner Bierfestival. Clear, pale golden pour, with a white head. Weak nose, mostly grain and hay, but there’s something alcohol-like there as well. Weak flavor as well, with fruits and some hops, leading to a finish with some hops and bitterness. Thin to medium body. Boring and quaffable. (070804)
Downender (11275) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Canned. Woeful British brewed lager. Pleasant enough to look at, but next to no aroma. Watery mouth-feel with taste of skunky hops and depressing metallic aftertaste. Never again....
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
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".
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle. Pours a clear pale yellow colour with a white head. Malty aroma. Malty falvor with some hints of honey. Dry malty finish.
caesar (10848) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Clear yellow color, short head. Light hoppy aroma, light bitter taste. Decent lager from down under.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Castlemaine XXXX (UK) from Samlesbury 22 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
500 ml can, named "Castlemaine XXXX Draught Lager", brewed under license in the UK by Interbrew. ABV was 4.0%. Drank it ice cold, like the Aussies prefer it. Pale golden colour, moderate head. Weak sweetish aroma. Little taste at all, just a hint of boiled vegetables and a faint bitterness. Better than water.