Carling Black Label

Brewed by Molson Breweries (MolsonCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Montreal, Canada

Dry, light hop and skunky aroma. Clear dull amber with no head and no lacing. Watery palate with low carbonation. Dull. Standard lager taste, corny, grainy. Weak sweetness, very little bitterness or acidity. Weak, low hops. Low bitterness overall. Clear glass bottle, too.

A damn fine looking "can" of beer. And as far as i know the information on this beer is wrong. This beer was sold to Pabst Brewing Co. a long time ago.

As macroswill goes, I prefer Black Label to Bud or any of the others. But that's not saying much. I remember drinking this stuff in college and it was bearable if it was very, very cold. One great thing about this beer is that it is something to point to and laugh at when Brits start whining about 'awful American beer.' I've heard that this stuff is Britain's most popular beer. It is quite sad that this is what they're brewing now in Burton-on-Trent while scores of American brewers are producing pale ales that are 10 times better than anything coming out of the UK nowadays.

Keg: This beer had some black specks in it out of the keg, and tasted like shit. A popular college beer due to its inexpensiveness.

Quite how this has become Britains best selling beer is beyond me, especially when we consider that even some of the commercial brands it sits alongside behind the bar, are far superior. Carling is a weak, bitter and metallic lager, tasting of well, not an awful lot really. On tap it is barely drinkable, in cans, forget it.

Not an amazing tasting brew, yet deliciously devious. Purchased on the way back home, going to the Embankment tube. Small talk with a man who was on vacation to, but still had an English accent. I’m not sure if it was my imagination but two Brit women were staring at me, while I was standing at the bar drinking my Carling. Cheers!

Well the colour is piss yellow with a lasting white head. The taste is slightly metallic but I don't mind that so long as there is some bitterness, not too much else in the flavour department.

Beer 19 Belgium trip. It's presence at the hotel bar confirmed my suspicions that during normal times of the year that lots of Brit businessmen stay here. Draft. Yellow, OK head, fizzy. Aroma? Little taste, maybe some faint hops. A tiny bit of metallic bitterness at finish. Boring Euro mass pils. Decided to destroy the rest of this by utterly overwhelming it with a Cohiba.