Stubbie
Pinnacle Drinks
- From:
- Pinnacle Drinks
- Australia
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 1.65 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 03, 2021
- Added:
- Aug 30, 2021
- Wants:
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- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Nath91 from Australia
1.65/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.65/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
I should have known this was a supermarket beer when I saw it, however it was until I got home when I discovered it was brewed for Pinnacle Drinks - the alcohol parent company behind Dan Murphys/BWS - Woolworths. Unfortunately it doesn't say who the brewer actually is. It's a bit of an Australian gag - stubbie. Aussie beer bottles, especially the rounded squad ones are called stubbies. Why I hear our American and non-Australian beer advocates asking? Because they're short and squat - stubby. VB bottles are the iconic Australian 'stubbie', so I'm expecting this to be a "craft" knock off of VB. Lets see...
Look: Clear, golden straw look, thin bubbly white head. Looks like a standard Aussie lager to me. There is a slight haze to the beer, although I'm thinking that's just a chill haze. Not really any carbonation I can see floating to the top.
Smell: Smells just like an Aussie adjunct lager. Corn, grain, slight grassy hop note which is clearly Pride of Ringwood, pale sweet malt,
Taste: Stale white bread, stale, malt, stale grain, light hop bitterness. Tastes like a stale VB. I know I rated VB as 'decent', and for the style, it is, but this isn't. It's a crude replica that's nowhere close. Quite watery too.
Feel: It's only 4.4%, but drinks like a light beer. Actually, Hahn Premium Light has more robust flavours that this. It's thin, watery, bland.
Overall: I bought it for the novelty, and it's exactly that. A novelty. If they knocked the ABV up to 4.9% like a VB, and the stubbie 375ml instead of a novelty 330ml, it might do better. Until then, this will continue selling because schmucks will buy it for the novelty purpose. It's borderline terrible.
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Sep 03, 2021Look: Clear, golden straw look, thin bubbly white head. Looks like a standard Aussie lager to me. There is a slight haze to the beer, although I'm thinking that's just a chill haze. Not really any carbonation I can see floating to the top.
Smell: Smells just like an Aussie adjunct lager. Corn, grain, slight grassy hop note which is clearly Pride of Ringwood, pale sweet malt,
Taste: Stale white bread, stale, malt, stale grain, light hop bitterness. Tastes like a stale VB. I know I rated VB as 'decent', and for the style, it is, but this isn't. It's a crude replica that's nowhere close. Quite watery too.
Feel: It's only 4.4%, but drinks like a light beer. Actually, Hahn Premium Light has more robust flavours that this. It's thin, watery, bland.
Overall: I bought it for the novelty, and it's exactly that. A novelty. If they knocked the ABV up to 4.9% like a VB, and the stubbie 375ml instead of a novelty 330ml, it might do better. Until then, this will continue selling because schmucks will buy it for the novelty purpose. It's borderline terrible.
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