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VBL Tien Giang Limited (Fosters)
- From:
- VBL Tien Giang Limited (Fosters)
- Vietnam
- Style:
- Schwarzbier
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.16 | pDev: 3.48%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 08, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 22, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.05/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.05/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
On-draught @ Draft Beer in Da Nang, Vietnam. Cost was 45000 VND per pint.
Pours a khaki creamy head over an opaque dark brown-black body. Head lasts 4ish minutes.
Aroma is of black bread, cream, burnt dark malt, and Caramel. Classic bready German malt profile. No hop aromatics. Aroma is of below average strength.
Taste follows the aroma, but the dark malt sweetness is pungent, though balanced somewhat ineffectually by a cacao and roasted barley bitterness. Not as bready as anticipated, and it doesn't suffer from the cola character that plagues so many schwarzbiere.
Scattershot and lacking a clear focus or direction, but not unpleasant to drink in spite of its chaotic flavour profile.
No hops here, lads.
Texture is typical. Smooth, wet, medium to full-bodied, overcarbonated, unrefreshing, and of average heft and weight on the palate. Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy.
For a schwarzbier distributed by a corporate conglomerate with nothing but profit in mind, it's shockingly decent, beating even many of the dark lagers brewed by small breweries in Hanoi. Indochina Trading doesn't have a home run with this, but they hit it clear of the mound - which is more than I can say about many Vietnamese/Southeast Adrian dark beers.
Low C+ (3.05) / ABOVE AVERAGE
Jul 08, 2017Pours a khaki creamy head over an opaque dark brown-black body. Head lasts 4ish minutes.
Aroma is of black bread, cream, burnt dark malt, and Caramel. Classic bready German malt profile. No hop aromatics. Aroma is of below average strength.
Taste follows the aroma, but the dark malt sweetness is pungent, though balanced somewhat ineffectually by a cacao and roasted barley bitterness. Not as bready as anticipated, and it doesn't suffer from the cola character that plagues so many schwarzbiere.
Scattershot and lacking a clear focus or direction, but not unpleasant to drink in spite of its chaotic flavour profile.
No hops here, lads.
Texture is typical. Smooth, wet, medium to full-bodied, overcarbonated, unrefreshing, and of average heft and weight on the palate. Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy.
For a schwarzbier distributed by a corporate conglomerate with nothing but profit in mind, it's shockingly decent, beating even many of the dark lagers brewed by small breweries in Hanoi. Indochina Trading doesn't have a home run with this, but they hit it clear of the mound - which is more than I can say about many Vietnamese/Southeast Adrian dark beers.
Low C+ (3.05) / ABOVE AVERAGE
Reviewed by Everydayoff from Thailand
3.27/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
640ml bottle poured into a mug.
L:
Very deep murky brown to almost black in color, it tops with massive billowy tan head that stands with decent retention before collapsing to some foamy sheet on the surface, little lacing left.
S:
Cocoa, coffee, faint chocolate, roasted, astringency, bready malt, mild buttery, brown sugar, some crisp of hop and suggestion of Lager yeast.
T:
Upright with roasted malt and astringency, coffee sour, subtle chocolate and cocoa, sweet bready malt as a dark bread, clean and crisp bitterness from hop at the finish.
F:
Light body with fizzy carbonation through the palate, it is quite sharp with semi-smooth mouthfeel, crisp and refreshing feeling with a dry finish.
O:
Not that good and not that bad, just easy to drink and proper when you need something that is light but also has some depth.
Jan 22, 2017L:
Very deep murky brown to almost black in color, it tops with massive billowy tan head that stands with decent retention before collapsing to some foamy sheet on the surface, little lacing left.
S:
Cocoa, coffee, faint chocolate, roasted, astringency, bready malt, mild buttery, brown sugar, some crisp of hop and suggestion of Lager yeast.
T:
Upright with roasted malt and astringency, coffee sour, subtle chocolate and cocoa, sweet bready malt as a dark bread, clean and crisp bitterness from hop at the finish.
F:
Light body with fizzy carbonation through the palate, it is quite sharp with semi-smooth mouthfeel, crisp and refreshing feeling with a dry finish.
O:
Not that good and not that bad, just easy to drink and proper when you need something that is light but also has some depth.
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