Carlton Dry Fusion

Grabbed this as a takeout from my local, just to see what the fuss is all about... Horrible aroma of artificial lime, reminds me of some god awful confectionery that my nephews would consume. Fucking horrid taste, reminds me of something you’d mix in water and drink to get rid of a crook stomach, like Salvital! Disgusting finish, the artificially added salt hits you big time. Would probably do well as a premix spirit, would suck in the metrosexual nightclubber crowd easily. As a beer however, it is a new and utterly disgusting low for CUB, and is to beer what yak vomit is to a fulfilling meal. Watch it take off in happy hours at the hottest nightclubs across Australia, evidence that my country overall wouldn’t know a good beer if it bit it on the arse. Absolute fucking drainpour.

Pale piss yellow colour with small fritzy white head. Citrus/lemony flavour. Short sweet mouthfeel, very bland. Another Carlton Champion!!!!!

Given how well I have heard this beer is supposed to be selling I’m suprised that there are only 6 ratings so far. I found the beer to be just another watery nothing beer that’s easy to drink. The lime/saltiness present in the flavour isn’t great. There are plenty of worse beers out there but still - not great. - 330ml green bottle.

Bottle. Very sweet lime infused beer that pours a thin pale yellow. Overpowering aroma of citrus that assaults your nose. Another in a long line of new style beers from major breweries trying to clone overseas competition.

Had one of these on a trip to Australia and I didn’t realize until I’d poured it and started drinking that there was an infusion of lime flavor (guess I should read the labels more closely). The lime is almost too strong in there--guess it’s meant to compete with some of the American and Mexican beers that infuse a citrus flavor? Very thin and watery and not something I’d be eager to try a second time.

Well, well, well, yet another run amok with the consumer, novelty beer sparked by the urgency for lifeless lagers to contain citrus, comes this abomination I am sad to say is f##king selling well. Am I the idiot I ask?
Poured into a Carlton Draught glass for that symbolic gesture of beer before bastardising. Appears the palest of yellow gold, filtered to a translucency beyond the clarity of the finest spring water and gassed up to vent a very loose, sudsy head that’s more CO2 pockets than beer. This display recedes back to nothing upon the first mouthful as if embarrassed by my mere tasting it. Smells of salted walnut paste and simmered mushrooms with just a touch of pear - Fusion of citrus hey, clearly evident already!?!
Salted almond peel and what I’d imagine percarbonate tastes like in the mouth, some nodules of play-doh plasticine and more salt, this soon becomes drabby and very chemical on the palate. Where is the beer, where is the f##kin’ citrus? Do these guys even taste the shit they deem worthy to sell to the greater public? It is instantly slick and oily, so repulsive to the palate it made my stomach churn. Can’t finish it, no more notes... (355ml, No date stamped, The Beer Store Morley)

Yeah, salty and way out of balance in flavour. The ’lime’ was very powerful and the overall taste was still bland and watery. I guess if you don’t like beer this could provide suitable supplement.

Pours like a beer but doesn’t really taste like a beer, I suppose the lime and salt covers the lack of any other flavours. Fortunately I didn’t have to pay for this beer.