Carlton Cold

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Pale Lager
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bottle. Golden colour with a medium white head. Weak malty aroma and a light sweet malty taste. Light body and a thin finish.

This stuff is seriously watery. Pale yellow colour. Aroma adn taste of really wet cardboard and water, not good.

(Bottle 37,5 cl) Fully golden, nice creamy head. Lightly sweetish, sticky malt-feel. Pretty much no hoppiness. A yuppie-beer in it’s clear glass bottle. 210205

Looks good in a clear bottle but has no distinct flavour. Like the crown, it looks better then it tastes

Tasted in the interest of completeness.

Ultra clear gold to brown - very CUB like. Faint nose with some malts and some staleness, and, believe it or not, that winery smell you get when visiting the tank & fermentation area. Not a bad thing, except when it pops up in the bouquet of a beer.

Not as neutral in the mouth as I expected. Still a little stale but some ok maltiness lurks, bit of surprise actually. Very bloody fizzy as one would expect. Better than VB.

This one is a little rough. Faint beer like odors perfectly represent the faint beer like tastes. A bit of weird metallic flavor, probably the PoR hops. A beer to drink with the brain disengaged, nothing too offensive, but a bit of a lobotomized beer that has had all the flavors taken out.

Golden color with a small white head. The taste is sweet light malty with a slight grassy bitter finish. Kind of thin and rather boring.

I remember when this beer was released in Australia in the mid 90s. It sold out all over southeast Queensland, like taking candy away from a baby everyone wanted it. I suspect because it might have been the first aussie "lager" to be served in a clear bottle. The "beer" has no redeeming features whatsoever. A bland unpleasant chemical buttery taste leaves a vile animal fat residue on the palette, like cold fish and chips. If you have a vivid imagination you might think you are drinking beer, but this drink has (as have many Australian beers) had any actual typical malt beer flavours removed prior to bottling for fear of scaring off the punters. Beers like this have contributed to a revision of what Australians consider beer. Hit an aussie with anything as remotely challenging as a full bodied bitter and they choke.