Carlton Empire Lager

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

Crisp bouquet of wet dog invites the connoisseur to dive on in and appreciate the brilliance of a murky brown liquid dancing on your tongue. Punters may be afraid to embrace this amber fluid en masse, but rest assured the second half of the case is just mischievious and adventurous as the first beer of the day. Carlton Empire - drink it or your a sissy!

This may be the last review of this beer... it appears that CUB have stopped making it. I bought a single bottle to try at Woolworths liquor the other day. The sign read ’discontinued line’ and staff working in the shop informed me that the beer was ’obselete’. Quite a shame really because I found this to be a fairly good drop. Smooth, crisp and easy to drink. Inoffensive, not bitter at all. I loved the bottle too. A shame CUB is pulling the plug on this one. Certainly not the worst beer on the market.

only new on the scene. not as refreshing as other beers, but its something different to drink every now and again. not on my top 10, thats for sure.

Some mates had wraps on this stuff, so I thought Id give it a chance. Its drinkable.

This is a new one from CUB aimed at the 18-25 year olds I suppose the cold shots didnt do it for them as they are giving a 4 pack away with every carton of carlton cold. Anyway back to the Empire I thought it wasnt too bad for a 41 year old, good aroma, average size head, minimum lacing, the taste was smooth ( due to the late hops? ) grapefruit and hints of cheese maybe some butter. Anyway it wasnt too bad specially after having it straight after an Eisbock!

Guam SwillFest 2004: Pours a golden yellow with a thin white head. Light fruit aroma-again there is the grape thing going on with all these Australian beers. Lightly hopped flavor with more fruitiness and a bit of alcohol, even for a 4.3% beer. Overall, not bad. Refreshing.

Draught, at the Paddington Inn, Sydney.
Pale yellow colour with bright white head. Bitter sweet aroma. Bitter flavour to begin with but then a long sweet aftertaste lingers on the palate. Drinking at extreme pace with some old mates, I haven’t yet made up my mind on this beer. All I do know is that the marketing of the stuff has gone crazy since I was last here.

How can they make such a sweet bland beer is beyond me, no real flavour. Designed for teenagers setting out on their first beer. Nothing good here.