Carlton Cold

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

not a bad beer, nice and cheap. does the job when you wanna get schmacco. It has a smart paper sticker over the top of the cap so it doesnt cut your hands when you twist the top off. Leaves you with a bad feeling the next morning.

Suprisingly long lasting white head with nice lacing. This same hops aroma in most of these cheap beers is really disturbing me, I swear it smells like a wet dog (I think this is the strongest of them so far). And it is always the dominant flavour as well. I really dislike it, as I have mentioned previously I suspect that with something else in there maybe it'd balance out or something but by itself it really is quite oppressively bad. I guess this one can at least say it pours an okay head...
As an aside, pointing out the ridiculous factor in their marketing, playing up the fact that you ship in clear glass (bad bad bad) and also in plastic (bad for at least the same reasons as well as the aesthetics) kind of unusual and also teaching people bad things about beer... hmmm.

A clean crisp beer, lacks alot in aroma and flavour but very easy drinking. Can be consumed in large amounts without paying for it the morning after.

Not happy Jan! I was really dissapointed with this beer and with all the hype surrounding it a few years ago, it was not nearly as good as it was stated. It has nothing really to offer the drinker except a cold tongue! No hops, no real flavour to speak of. Disapointing CUB!

Although the 'Coldie' can be a refreshing cool off on a hot Aussie day, it's absolutely useless if it isn't swilled down quickly. Once it goes warm this beer rears its true flavours. It's a cheap beer that goes down very easily, but lacks any real taste. It's found a niche market though as a fashionable beer for the blue collar brigade. The most positive point I can make is that it's the mass-market's lesser evil next to Victoria Bitter.

Pastuerised Bottle. From BeersOfEurope. BBE March 2004. Clear bottle with name embossed on the front and back. Watery gold colour with very thin foamy head. Aroma of cold steel. Very little flavour - clean. Slightly harsh mouthfeel. Not much else to say. A fairly flavourless lager.

another dry beer with the aim being to make a beer with no beer flavours or aromas, why bother? for those who like to describe beer as "crisp" or those that say "mmm no horrible aftertaste"...

Looks great in a clear bottle, which also makes it stand for bad. Too sweet for my liking. For new beer drinkers.