jhaase (14816) reviewed Arvo Brew 51 from Casella Family Brands 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle Golden, plentiful carbonation Straw malt nose Medium light sparkly body Light grainy malt base, grassy hops to balance, light footed. Not much going on - Follows the scheme for a Aussie pale lager perfectly I would say.
bkbergen (9250) ticked Arvo 51 from Casella Family Brands 11 years ago
SimonF (3322) reviewed Arvo Brew 51 from Casella Family Brands 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
(Bottle) Clear yellowy straw with very short lived head. Aroma has notes of cardboard, grass and toffee. Thin and fizzy. Taste is pretty unpleasant, starts with a rather metallic tartness and moves to wet cardboard and corn, which fades away leaving quite an unpleasant aftertaste. Overall it is quite impressive that these days with so many good beers appearing that a brewery would set out to make something so bad.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Arvo Brew 34 from Casella Family Brands 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
From a 330ml bottle on 12/8/2012. Tried straight after their hideous brew 51. Pours a light golden/straw with a smallish head. Smells exactly the same as the 51, a barely perceptible grainy grassy combo. At least the flavour is a bit better than the 51, though it’d be a challenge to be worse. You can detect just a slight hint of citrus hops, and at least it tastes semi-fresh. At best, on par with some typical Aussie macro pale lagers, and probably worse than more than a few.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Arvo Brew 51 from Casella Family Brands 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 0.5
From a 330ml bottle on 12/8/2012. Pours a very light straw with a biggish bright white head. Has a very slight grassy, grainy aroma. Flavour wise, it’s truly horrible - stale vegetable and cardboard come to mind. Got this with some fancy, detailed advertising blurb about the brewers looking to brew the perfect lager, and needing help to work out whether it’s brew 51 or brew 34. It is certainly not brew 51, which gives me a new found respect for VB, which is positively flavour filled in comparison. About to try brew 34...