Carlton Cold

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

Cold day in hell when you can say Cold is wow. Pours urine yellow, and tastes as close to it as you can get. You can drink it if it is free!

Golden in a clear bottle.Hardly any flavour and a complete waste of time. Why does any one wish to drink this. Never again.

Bottle. Clear medium to dark yellow color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light hoppy, fruit / apple. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to short duration. Refreshing. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (131007)

Bottle. Clear, pale golden, with a white, moderate head. Grain, hay, some dust and fruit in the aroma. The flavor is fruity, with a weak grainy note and lacking bitterness. Medium to thin body, with a slightly soapy mouthfeel. Fruity finish with a little bitterness, and some yellow apples. Decent, refreshing beer, but it’s too low on bitterness, and the mouthfeel is a bit awkward. (070926)

Bottled(375ml). -as Carlton Cold Filtered
Golden coloured, small white head, cardboard cocoa nose. Cardboard taste with notes of nuts and caramel. Quite dry in the finish and watery overall.

Bottle courtesy of and shared with ozujsko (thanks!)
Poured a dark golden colour with a medium to small white head that went away slowly. The nose is cardboardy, with weak weak notes of cocoa and malt. The taste is empty as expected, with notes of malt and a touch of alcohol. Had worse, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is crap.

The third worst thing you can do with Carlton Cold (after buying it and opening a bottle) is to let it warm up. Let me say this: there is/was a ‘beer’ in the UK called Kaliber. It contained no alcohol. It was advertised by famous ex-soak Billy Connolly, a man I admire, but that didn’t stop it tasting like the juice from a can of peas. Carlton Cold is the Australian equivalent, but with alcohol.

Bottled. Pale yellow colour with not very much head. Aroma is only weak malts and hops and the same pretty much goes for the flavour. Very non-saying beer, which mainly is watery and boring. No real unclean notes in it though.