Victoria Bitter XTRA VX
Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Southbank, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Lager - Imperial Pils Regular|
Score
5.60
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3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Pours amber with a large fading white head.Nose shows cardboard, vegetal notes, slight lemon, soft biscuity malt.Flavours include more biscuity malt, a slight cardboard character, a bit of very soft spicy hops.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2023
at 10:27
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Throwdown bottle from BWS, Glen Innes. Pale clear amber beer with thin white head, light carbonation. Light malt nose. Plasticine taste, sharp carbonation. Sweet boozy finish. Better than VB, not a great endorsement but there it is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2023
at 12:16
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
I understand the decision to name it after a nerve gas and to package it in grenades (the local name for 250ml stubbies) but why put in Melbourne Bitter colours? Surely hi viz would have been the go. Ooh, crown seal not a twist top. Clear golden amber with a swiftly vanishing white head. Familiar but perhaps slightly more intense aroma of caramel, grain and weeds. A bit more sweet presence in the malt side of things but - swings and roundabouts- that just emphasises how quickly it flabbily drops away at the end. But it’s not dreadful, just not for me.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2023
at 12:25