Victoria Lager
Vancouver Island Brewing
- From:
- Vancouver Island Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- European / Dortmunder Export Lager
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.36 | pDev: 12.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 13, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 18, 2003
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Brewed in the Dortmunder style, this golden export lager is a rich, full-bodied beer. A celebration of the place our brewery calls home, Victoria Lager is our way of sharing a little piece of the Island with you, no matter where you go.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.34/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.34/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Hazy golden color with visible floaters. Poured a head almost as tall as the beer below it, but it was composed of medium sized bubbles and quickly dropped down to a partial skiff. Left the occasional dot on the glass wall for lacing. Medium flow of fine bubbles from the bottom.
Smells of apple sauce and some light floral scent. Just a hint of some yeast. Swirling the glass added some extra fruit to the apple sauce and boosted the yeast.
Taste of some malt, light-medium bitters, and light hops. Perhaps a touch more bitter than expected for a lager, but it works. The apple sauce is just barely present. The aftertaste boosts the apple sauce flavor and rides out the bitters.
A bit of tongue tingling. It turns into a coarse foam. It left a warm spice feeling after the aftertaste had faded.
I'm not a big fan of lagers, but this was one I would drink again. I'm not sure this is listed under the correct style, "Vienna Lager". I would put it as more of a "European Export / Dortmunder". The hops are oddly expressed as apple sauce and probably the warm spice at the end. Reading through all of the previous reviews, it seems like this has gone through a major evolution since it was introduced. For example, corn syrup is mentioned in old reviews but is not listed as an ingredient in the current batch. Also, the ABV is slightly higher now.
Mar 13, 2020Smells of apple sauce and some light floral scent. Just a hint of some yeast. Swirling the glass added some extra fruit to the apple sauce and boosted the yeast.
Taste of some malt, light-medium bitters, and light hops. Perhaps a touch more bitter than expected for a lager, but it works. The apple sauce is just barely present. The aftertaste boosts the apple sauce flavor and rides out the bitters.
A bit of tongue tingling. It turns into a coarse foam. It left a warm spice feeling after the aftertaste had faded.
I'm not a big fan of lagers, but this was one I would drink again. I'm not sure this is listed under the correct style, "Vienna Lager". I would put it as more of a "European Export / Dortmunder". The hops are oddly expressed as apple sauce and probably the warm spice at the end. Reading through all of the previous reviews, it seems like this has gone through a major evolution since it was introduced. For example, corn syrup is mentioned in old reviews but is not listed as an ingredient in the current batch. Also, the ABV is slightly higher now.
Reviewed by Beersnake from California
3.73/5 rDev +11%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +11%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from can at fridge temp. Pours a nice opaque orange with white head. Nose is fairly subtle - wheat, grass, lemon, oak, grain. Taste is smooth. Slightly bitter from hops, wheat, grass, orange, tree sap, and a touch of spice. Mouthfeel is fairly light. Pretty decent lager.
Jul 19, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
355ml can, part of the most recent VIB mixed-pack to show up here in Alberta. And I know it's not the same, but this one's name really reminds me of the dearly departed Victoria Bitter (or just 'VB') in these parts. Anyways.
This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent patchy and streaky lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, white saltine crackers, a bit of underripe apple and pear fruitiness, some subtle earthy peppercorn notes, and very subtle leafy, weedy, and floral old-school hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some mildly sugary generic fruitiness, ethereal bubblegum (why, I do not profess to know), faint estery yeast, and more underwhelming leafy, musty, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its ennui-stricken frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, but a tad watery by the same sword. It finishes off-dry, the crackery malt and fading wan fruity notes presiding.
Overall - well, this is certainly an above-average Canadian-struck lager, but not exactly in league with the average-to-best versions of the purported Teutonic style. Plain, but easy enough to put back, that is if you're not duly distracted by all the shit going on south of the 49th, amirite?
Mar 01, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent patchy and streaky lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, white saltine crackers, a bit of underripe apple and pear fruitiness, some subtle earthy peppercorn notes, and very subtle leafy, weedy, and floral old-school hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some mildly sugary generic fruitiness, ethereal bubblegum (why, I do not profess to know), faint estery yeast, and more underwhelming leafy, musty, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its ennui-stricken frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, but a tad watery by the same sword. It finishes off-dry, the crackery malt and fading wan fruity notes presiding.
Overall - well, this is certainly an above-average Canadian-struck lager, but not exactly in league with the average-to-best versions of the purported Teutonic style. Plain, but easy enough to put back, that is if you're not duly distracted by all the shit going on south of the 49th, amirite?
Reviewed by BigBry from Canada (AB)
3.2/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.2/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Enjoyed a bottle while sitting on the patio at the Fogg 'n Suds in Vancouver.
It has a clear straw / gold color, a strong pour produced a nice white head. The foam does shrink but doesn't totally disappear, and left some minimal lacing on the glass.
The beer is what you expect from the style. A touch of hops, refreshing and easy to drink. Clean, dry finish. A good all around summer drinking beer.
Apr 07, 2007It has a clear straw / gold color, a strong pour produced a nice white head. The foam does shrink but doesn't totally disappear, and left some minimal lacing on the glass.
The beer is what you expect from the style. A touch of hops, refreshing and easy to drink. Clean, dry finish. A good all around summer drinking beer.
Reviewed by Goldorak from Canada (QC)
2.5/5 rDev -25.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -25.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Appearance: Pasteurized apple juice golden, with a lanky layer of micronized bubbles.
Smell: Grassy at first, it slowly develops a corn syrupy sweetnes that takes over firmly as the pint goes down.
Taste: Body is a bit more affirmed than your standard macro lager (probably more attributable to the corn syrup and low carbonation to actual malt), the aftertaste, like the looks, is dry like a bitter apple. A baby step above your brother in law's lager.
Dec 06, 2005Smell: Grassy at first, it slowly develops a corn syrupy sweetnes that takes over firmly as the pint goes down.
Taste: Body is a bit more affirmed than your standard macro lager (probably more attributable to the corn syrup and low carbonation to actual malt), the aftertaste, like the looks, is dry like a bitter apple. A baby step above your brother in law's lager.
Reviewed by Fabric8r from Montana
4.08/5 rDev +21.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +21.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Nice light lager. A real pleasure to drink. Nice bottle label, kept one for a souvenier. This lager is very smooth. Just the right ballance of malt to hop, you can taste both. Two bottles from the 6 pack I bought tasted horrible, must have been something they shouldn't have let out. But the other 4 were a real pleasure to drink.
Feb 18, 2003
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