Carlton Cold Shot

Formerly brewed at Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Pale Lager
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Like licking the pavement on Parramatta Rd, heaps of rubber and metal in there with some raw alchohol in the finish, also got some boiled carrots in the finish. Pretty terrible.

pretty much as exciting as your standard carlton cold except with an aftertaste of my saliva the morning after downing a whole bottle of stronganoff vodka

I always thought carlton cold was crap so why did they bother making this one. They ended up giving the stuff away free with a case of carlton cold. Haven't had a decent beer from CUB.

Hey, here's a better way of drinking this. Do it the other way around! Pour 200ml of vodka into a glass and add a shot of Cold. It looks exactly like the liquid produced by marketing tossers after drinking too much of the original stuff. Come to think of it that must be how the boneheads at CUB came up with the idea. You could just imagine the session in their late night 'creative workshop', sometime slightly before one or all of them photocopied their bums and came up with the complex commercial description of 'Pure clean taste'. As Betty said, a beaut beer for the blokes who think that poofs and sheilas drink Vodka Cruisers.

How do you make Carlton Cold worse? Add a shot of vodka to it to increase the ABV. Standard colour with a weird looking head. Slight, sweetish corn taste with some undisguised alcohol. Finishes with a nasty pinching sensation in the back of the throat. May be an Aussie attempt at a Malt Liquor effect.

Got heaps of free bottles of this rubbish at a uni function... Not much can be said really, its got all the nasty vegetables of carlton cold, as well as a awful cheap wine note that I’ll assume comes from the vodka. Its pale, hardly has any head... nothing good to say about this except that its no longer produced.

Smells like corn. Looks ok but the carbonation is too fine for a lager, like a champagne. Holds a good foamy head, but this is probably due to the unfortunate vodka marriage. Then it all goes downhill. The taste has an unpleasant sourness to it and the palate is nothing short of nauseating. And it coats the back of your mouth. Pass me the bowl of jalapenos and never give me this crap again.

The funniest beer in the universe. Thanks to motelpogz for sharing a bottle with me. It hides the vodka really well, which is amazing since the foundation beer (Coldy) has no taste at all. Remarkable achievement and a Westie pinup beer for sure. This'll be all over Walgett parties when I next return home. Best wishes.