Carlton Empire Lager

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

if only this site allowed you to rate sections with 0! If only CUB placed as much time in the beer as they did in the bottle, they might actually make a nice beer. Kind of reminds me of the Simpsons where Homer tours the duff factory, one pipe split off in to three different duffs. I think CUB have the same set up with the same pipe filling up Crown, VB and Empire. If you insist on trying this, buy only ONE stubby, a six pack is a waste. Doesn't even have the working class charm of VB. Don't expect this one to last too long.

You've gotta be joking. It's the same shit, people, as all the other CUB crap. I wanna be there for the blind taste test ecz and duff: in fact, the only thing I can say for this beer is that if you can stand to drink enough of it you'll get blind.

Everyone is spot on, this tastes like any other lager from CUB. It actually would be interesting to do a blind taste test of CUB lagers, i seriously reckon they'd all taste the same. "Late Hopped for an extra smooth finish".....wow, amazing, thats a revolutionary technique. Funny how i can't taste any hops, and funny how the finish manages to be fizzy and adjuncty rather than smooth. A stupid beer. On second thoughts this is even worse, we still have heaps of cases at work of this, that just aren't moving. What a wank of a beer. Wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank, wank , wank, wank.

This tasted like Carlton Draught only about four times sweeter. I saw it on the fridge at the bottle-o and thought I'd try it as I'll try any beer once. I'm really glad I did too, because now I know never to drink one again.

tastes identical to MB. or was that carlton draught? or VB? or carlton cold? ill have to have a blind tastetest of all the CUb lagers one of these days. i'll definitely be spitting them in a bucket.

A waste of time buying this beer. it is extremely thin and watery, sweet and the hops must have have been added much too late.

not as bad as expected. zero aroma, looks like beer. says it's late hopped for an ultra smooth finish. not offensive tasting like cold shot. quite sweet. was served very cold at cronulla rsl and i'd say that was just as well

Typical CUB aroma: slightly sweet, slightly hoppy. Poured without a head. Very, very slight bitterness and corn in the taste but oterwise flavourless. Dryness comes from heavy carbonation. A waste of money.