Melbourne Bitter
Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Southbank, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.33
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5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can at Down under. Clear golden body, white head. Smooth, creamy, floral-fruity aroma, hmm. Lean taste, medium to low body, bit creamy maltiness, low fruit and mushroom taste, no bitterness, weirdly works for the level it's at. Can't find a major flaw with it in its bracket. Just don't expect an actual bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2026
at 19:32
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can at Down Under. Med-thin body, med-light carbo. Med-light bitter, low sweet, quite dry. Flavor is dull, med-light general estery fruitiness. Light grassy, earthy. Mostly just fruity tho. Drinkable, but just too dull.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2026
at 04:33
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2024
at 18:52
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
A little caramel, some weeds. Less weedy but more bitterness than VB - so meeker but cleaner.
Tried
on 11 Mar 2023
at 10:34
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
at Chenoa's Hood! Pale golden. Malty, wet cardboard, faint hops. Purchased at The Bourbon
Tried
on 16 Oct 2020
at 13:04
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
33cl bottle from Angkor Market. Thin white head. Clear golden pour. Ok, not much to it
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2020
at 09:42
3/10
Better than VB...but that’s not saying much.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Feb 2019
at 21:20
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3
On tap. Pours a clear pale yellow with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has wet sweet bread and cookie with a bit of sweet grain underlying. Flavor has musty grains and a bit of fart with straw backing.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Feb 2019
at 12:22
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
375ml bottle sampled on Aussie tour 2017-18. Pours pale golden with a white top. Aroma & taste of cereal malts but little else, watery & dull. Preferred this to VB but that is absolutely no endorsement
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2018
at 02:04
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Can) Pours a good looking clear golden with a decent white head. Little aroma, but what there is isn't offensive, or particularly promising - slight cereal / bread notes, maybe something slightly sweet and fruity. Light bodied, with decent, smooth carbonation. Taste is pretty poor - watery start and middle with bread notes and some sweetness, there's some bitterness in the finish but it's harsh and rather metallic. Drinkable, but not good.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2018
at 07:28