Carling Black Label

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

for a cheap night at home this is still pretty ordinary.

Reviewer’s Note: 5.5% Produced by Heileman’s and since contract brewed by Miller. Not sure how this can be the same beer, but obviously the admins know better.

Pale straw color with a wispy, slowly dissipating white head and some lace. Mild grain with hints of white grape syrup and corn syrup and touch of floral hops. I almost gave it a 3 but I really can not smell any malt in this one. Thin and spritzy. Light grainy start with a rice over corn type taste. Touch of herbal hops helps bring in the sweeter flavors. LIght acidic finish and linger. Not much here, a summer quencher perhaps, ie. lawn mower brew. Low marks in the taste more for a lack of anything, than for anything really objectionable.

Poured with a big head and looked quite good. From a can so it mostly had an aroma of aluminium. Very slight stale hops taste, probably a blessing. Almost no aftertaste. It was on special and I thought I’d give it a rating.

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.

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.

Swillfest ’05. Pale straw colour, thin white head. Aroma of pale malt, light grassiness and a sweetish finish. Okay.

From a Can,Tap.Pale yellow in colour,no head,another boring hard to finish drink.Not funny these days.

Clear golden colour with a foamy white head. Malty and very sweet aroma with a light fruityness. Thin watery taste with a weak malty note and a light fruityness.