Kent Old Brown

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

Tap at the Brookvale Hotel, Sydney: Clear brown gold with a solid off-white head. Lots of bead. Not much aroma; some malt and hops. Flavour of weak caramel with some flowery hops, but not much. Seemed like a brown lager to me... had that lagery flavour. Not bad but wouldn’t go out of my way to find it.

Thought this came across more as an English Bitter than a Brown Ale still it was enjoyable enough. Brown body with a short but lasting head and layers of lacing. Caramel in the taste as well as being creamy and nuttty.

An alternative to old, probably not as good. Has a weak nutty chocolate flavour with a watery cola like body. Cheap and inoffensive.

nutty, dark malts, bit of chocolate, fairly watered down mouthfeel, mothing special, but still nice and worth a try.

I occasionally have this on tap when I see it. It is an inoffensive beer with a small amount of pleasing qualities. Not a harsh as a Tooheys old and therefore a little more balanced. I used to drink this as a fifty with Reschs draught in the dim dark past with my old man. Beer tasted better then, but like all memories it is tempered by lack of experience and the thrill of drinking a beer when underage.

Used to have this at Manning for a while, and I bought it because other shit on tap was worse. Its a bit of fun, and slightly tangyer than Tooheys Old but without the street cred. I think you have to play ludo with some unfunny drunk guy you just met when youre drinkin this. Ludo is a very boring board game, and I prefer snakes and ladders. Buy a Kent Old, onell do ya real good. I just think of pub trivia when I thinks of this beer. Cheers mate. My round? OK, cheers. Thatll be a Kent Old will it? Why certainly, that sounds very pleasant and all that fucking bullshit.

On tap, a fairly smooth inoffensive brown ale, reasonable balance, probably the best beer of Carltons products. Easy to drink.

(Draught) Not a bad brown ale although a little ’rough’. Probably the second best macro (i.e. Tooheys or Carlton) behind tooheys old in the country. But in alot of ways it’s still a bland macro...

(Bottle) Surprisingly seems to be a little ’smoother’ out of a bottle although it loses any textured mouthfeel it might have had on tap.