XXXX
XXXX is the beer brand of Castlemaine Perkins, brewing at the Milton site in Brisbane since 1878, when brothers Nicholas and Edward Fitzgerald bought a failed distillery there. The four Xs date from 1893 and refer to an old grading system for beer strength; XXXX Bitter followed in 1924. The brewery joined Castlemaine Tooheys in 1980 and belongs today to Lion, itself owned by Kirin. The range is built almost entirely on pale lagers, and the Milton site now runs carbon neutral.
Beers by XXXX
7 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
XXXX brew across 2 style families.
Across these 7 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
XXXX Bitter
Their beers place in the Top 25% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About XXXX
XXXX is the beer brand of Castlemaine Perkins, brewing at the Milton site in Brisbane since 1878, when brothers Nicholas and Edward Fitzgerald bought a failed distillery there. The four Xs date from 1893 and refer to an old grading system for beer strength; XXXX Bitter followed in 1924. The brewery joined Castlemaine Tooheys in 1980 and belongs today to Lion, itself owned by Kirin. The range is built almost entirely on pale lagers, and the Milton site now runs carbon neutral.
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