XXXX Bitter
Castlemaine Perkins Brewery in Milton, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
4.72
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XXXX BITTER is a big-hearted lager which is full of pride. That pride runs deep in the ingredients; pure local water, Australian malted barley, Queensland cane sugar, unique Golden Cluster hops and yeast grown at the XXXX Brewery combine for a beer with a signature clean, crisp taste and satisfying after-bitterness.
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4.1/10
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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!
Minimally oily-watery texture, smooth, simultaneously minimally dry palate, medium to fine, dense, mildly prickly carbonation.
Clea, simple and monotonous - meh!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2025
at 20:17
4.6/10
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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
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Feb 2025
at 02:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 0,37ltr: The golden thirstquencher from Queensland, with an good bitter taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:41
5/10
Tried
on 05 Sep 2022
at 18:57
5.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2019
at 18:01
4.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2018
at 10:34
6/10
Tried
on 21 Mar 2016
at 23:35
6/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2015
at 20:34
4.2/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2015
at 12:42
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2015
at 06:36