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Victoria Bitter

Victoria Bitter

Rated 3.108 by BeerPals

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Style:  Pale Lager

4.9% Alcohol by Volume

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Australia’s favourite full strength beer, Victoria Bitter (or VB as its fondly known) has a tradition of rewarding hard work and hard play, dating back to the 1890s. Over the last 10 years, its been a consistent winner in the esteemed Australian Liquor Industry Awards (ALIA), more recently picking up “Best Full Strength Beer” in 2001, “Tap Beer of the Year” in 2002, and “Best Full Strength Beer” again in 2003. VB is a full-flavoured brew, less malty in character and slightly darker than CUB’s traditional lagers. A gentle fruitiness in the aroma complements the sweet malt on the mid-palate balancing perfectly with a robust, hop bitterness.

ID: 9768 Last updated 1 month ago Added to database 20 years ago

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Statistics

Overall Rank35016
Overall Percentile37.7
Style Rank164 of 1782
Style Percentile90.8
Lowest Score1.2
Highest Score5.0
Average Score3.117
Weighted Score3.108
Standard Deviation0.941

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36 Member Reviews

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SIGMUND 7333 reviews
rated 2.1 20 years ago

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

(375 ml bottle.) Sweetish orange-like aroma. Flavour is mostly bitterness - more than in Foster's and Castlemaine, but not really pleasant. Will not be a regular beer of mine this one.

  • LENUSIK 2067 reviews
    rated 1.7 14 years ago

    Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

    Yuck. Multiple Australian award winner you say? I still say yuck. This beer had all the attributes of a North American macro lager. Pale gold, clear, huge white cap that lasted a blink of an eye. Aroma of grains and vomit. Grainy bitter taste. A waste of $2

  • CHOPZ 7581 reviews
    rated 2.2 14 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

    Can from the LCBO, says 4.6% and VB only. Pours a medium-light golden colour with a big frothy white cap, decent retention and dirty lacing. Mass commercial beer smell of chemical malt and corn. Crisp and light-bodied mouthfeel. Hints of grass are found in the taste, which makes this one at least refreshing, but pretty boring overall like most mass lagers.

  • CYRENAICA 2418 reviews
    rated 2.1 14 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

    500ml can
    4.6% ABV
    Milton LCBO Outlet #1 (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
    July 19, 2010
    The beer poured a translucent reddish-gold with no cap. The aroma was sour malt, nuts, and metal. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with very little carbonation. The flavour was gross. Musky malt, sour, and acidic.

  • POOTZ 1565 reviews
    rated 1.9 14 years ago

    Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

    Can sampled cold and sipped as it warmed to 50DegF Poured a clear gold liquid in the glass, must give a hard pour to get a 1 finger rocky cap, even that vanishes quickly and laces weakly. Aroma is faint but as it warms you get cane sugar sweetness, some hop grassiness..overall smells like sweet wet cardboard...totally over processed sterile extract brew smell. Weak thin body, virtually no lager character. Sweetish with weak husk-graininess and a whack of rough phenolic-sulfury-acidic green beer tastes, watery weak finish some hop after taste from POringwood hops (extract?). Overall a cheap, over processed adjunct laden beverage that approximates beer flavor. I’m told ’VB’ stand for ’vomiting bogans’ in Oz vernacular...seems like the demographic this weak green piss would appeal to.

  • OZZMOSIS 67 reviews
    rated 3.5 15 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    bought the canned version of this. was surprised it was not skunky even though it was brewed six months ago. aroma was a little sweet like fosters. golden color with a bubbly head with a good amount of lacing. it goes down smoothly. tasted creamy with a good balance of sweetness and bitterness. a pleasant and drinkable beer.

  • LBWINCH 10 reviews
    rated 2.0 16 years ago

    Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

    Not a bad beer, but pretty weak when it came to overall flavor. It is a good beer to drink when you plan to have more than 6 and are strapped for cash. Also good to drink with Australians in pubs across Australia. Very fun

  • MASTERBASSER 31 reviews
    rated 3.5 17 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    I was a little disappointed; I found it at every pub down under and it seemed like the Coors Light (ugh...) of Australia. It was a decent beer and I thoroughly enjoyed, just not as good a flavor as I had expected. Nice and smooth and as long as its cold, I'll drink it.

  • BEERCRONIC 895 reviews
    rated 2.4 17 years ago

    Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

    Decent drinking beer. Odd creamy aroma, sweet malts that are not the highest quality, vanilla, corn. It does have a fragrant smell to it. Has the standard dull gold look with a small white cap and thin retension. No lacing. Mouthfeel is soft with some carbonation and teeters on the thick side when warmer. Taste is alright as long as you don't let it get to warm as I found it better and smoother on the chilled side. There is some slight alcohol taste, mild bitterness and corn. As an extra added bonus it begins to taste like a 40oz malt liquor when nearing room temperature. Pretty hard to justify dropping $16 or $17 on a 6 'er of this stuff unless you love it.

  • DEACON170 5 reviews
    rated 2.5 17 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

    while in the Marine Corps, if we had to stay on the ship for more than 45 days , or something like that, we got to have beers. this is the one we had. not that good now that i think about it, but an absolute godsend then. has a bittery(but not too much) flavor, with a crisp finish. wouldn't go out of my way for it, bit i would drink one if it were handy. we didn't have the luxury of glasses so i can't report on the look

  • OH6GDX 8411 reviews
    rated 1.2 17 years ago

    Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 2

    Golden colour, minimal head, the small bubbly things are white. Hoppy, a bit skunky nose. Bitter hoppy flavour with almost no aftertaste. Total waste of money in my opinion. Not even good for a bulk lager.

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