XXXX Bitter
Castlemaine Perkins Brewery in Milton, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
4.70
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Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 3.5
375ml bottle. Clear, orange, dark golden colour with small to average, frothy, slowly diminishing, moderately lacing, white head. Grainy, strawy, malty aroma, minimally soapy, hoppy overtones. Taste is sweet-ish, slightly grainy and strawy, malty, mildly bitter hoppy, minimally mineral, hints of honey covered cereals; minimally soapy, hoppy finish.
Minimally oily-watery texture, smooth, simultaneously minimally dry palate, medium to fine, dense, mildly prickly carbonation.
Clea, simple and monotonous - meh!
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Old rating from 1995 - Draught pour on a number of occasions in QLD. It's clear golden with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of apples, oranges, grass, grain & malt. Moderate body. Crisp finish
Goozen (5556) reviewed XXXX Bitter from Castlemaine Perkins Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 0,37ltr: The golden thirstquencher from Queensland, with an good bitter taste.
Botza (2939) ticked XXXX Bitter from Castlemaine Perkins Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
355ml bottle from National Brewery Centre in Burton - Flat yellow body, gentle fizz. XXXX was once a staple on the bars of the UK, haven't seen it on these shores for yonks, not surprising the bad rap it used to get. Nothing really in this to change my opinion from the kegmare it used to be. Dingo, koala, wallaby, possum, wombat, kangaroo, prawn, barbie, and g'day from Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can, v cold, tropical island with cans sitting in ice alongside bugs, crabs and prawns. And it works fine. Orange, very pale with a white head. Vaguely corny aroma with some apple and grass. Kind of watery. Clean, vague fruit. Fuzziness aids bitterness at the end. Better from can than glass.
WingmanWillis (38284) ticked XXXX Bitter from Castlemaine Perkins Brewery 9 years ago
jhaase (14816) reviewed XXXX Bitter from Castlemaine Perkins Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Gold, low carbonation, low head. Pleasant enough, a tad sulphur bittering hops take us alone a medium light straw like body to a quick finish with a light grainy and grassy aftertaste. In Queensland spring temperatures I really cannot fault this for being a easy quaffable brew, commercial deScription checks out.
Camons (21577) reviewed XXXX Bitter from Castlemaine Perkins Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours pale yellow with a white head. Aroma of light malt, grain, yeast, grass. Flavor is light sweet, malt, grain, yeast, grass. Medium body, average carbonation. 211015
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at XXXX Alehouse, Brisbane on 9th September 2015. Amber with thinning white foam and scant lacing. Sweet toffee malt aroma. Malty in-mouth with leafy herbiness. Bittersweet finish. Clean. Zingy mouthfeel and medium body. Not too bad at all.