Carlton Sterling

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Low Alcohol
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2.5% and tastes it. In fact it hides this 2.5% very well in that you can’t tell it’s alcoholic at all. Clear orange gold with a head that disappeared virtually instantaneously. Cold metal aroma, with a bit of sweet sugary adjunct. Slightest hint of bitter and sweet on tasting, but only slight. As much as these low abv beers keep professing to be "full flavour", it really is just a crock of shit. As to be expected there is no depth at all. Tastes like beer cordial really.

well it is a light beer, so gone is any depth and it is carlton so gone are any hops or character. I’d rather have 1 nice heavy than 20 light beers, but i guess this isn’t aimed at me!

At the risk of sounding like a tool, I actually enjoyed a longneck of this. Really easy to drink, although nothing spectacular. Shame about the low alcohol.

Pale golden, clear, medium head. I wouldn’t go so far as calling this "foul", but it is pretty boring (even allowing for it being a light beer). A whiff of hops, but nothing on the palate. Watery.

POints for $$$ cheapness. however when fresh, it really tasts like a crown larger only much less alcoholic kick.... sign the things i do for money

Draught at Irish Murphy, Ballarat. Pale yellow. A hint of Pride of Ringwood hops. After that sweetness, fizz and emptiness. Hello? Anybody in there?

Blandish beyond recognition. A hint of VB chemical foulness under the bland cardboard exterior. More like carbonated wood shavings then a beer. Though not nasty like VB.