Carlton Cold

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Definitely not a beer that I would recommend. Very foamy white head that lingers in the bottle. Heavy chemical, metallinc and smokey taste. Drink it while it is icy cold because when it warms it is almost undrinkable. Enough said

UPDATED: JAN 3, 2008 You can drink it like water, that’s a good point if you just want to get hammered at a BBQ. The other bad point? What a whopper of a hangover! Sriously mind numbing

Well this is my 100th review, wish it was on a more worthwhile beer. This was leftover in the fridge untouched for a few months and thought i’d give it a go. now i know why it was left there. This is crap, metallic nose, odd wishy-washy flavours, no bitterness to speak off. Brewed for people that have no tongue i think! I’ve had better Happoshu

Bottled. Pretty much a VB that’s had a bit of the crap filtered out - improves it marginally, but not much. Same ol’ carboard and metal flavour with cigarettes sneaking out as it warms - I swear, I saw the little buggers!

This really was terrible. Aroma is minimal with maybe 5 or 6 corn on the cobs kickin about. Taste is also corn but like horrible, i mean hard to drink terrible. This probably is the worst beer iv ever had.

Finally got the nerves in order and bought a stubby of this, all in all hoping it was a little less offensive than the ’Cold’ I remember from a decade ago. Problem is, I didn’t know good beer back then and would pretty much down anything that had an alcohol percentage on its label, yet this one still made me question having another. Poured from the bottle into a tallboy glass. Clear medium-gold body with very fine carbonation rising up to an unexpectedly big (albeit certainly artificial) fluffy white head that managed to stick around. Piercing mineral-like and gassy, soggy cardboard aroma with thankfully little else. Detergent-like and initially sour in the mouth, very light bodied and bubbly in carbonation. Almost flavourless, so I had to rely on its mouth-feel and this dropped quickly, beginning clean, crisp, then soapy, gluggy, harsh in the back and generally plastic across the tongue. All this in only one beer was just too much. This was woeful, especially once it began to warm, which obviously means its just another ’straight from the fridge, in the bottle, down the gullet beer’ that seems to just pigeonhole most of the Aussie Macro’s pale lagers. This wasn’t good ten years ago and it’s questionable whether its even ’beer’ now. Hard one to finish. (375mL bottle, BBE 02/06)

Clear fluorescent yellow color, short dying head. Aroma is like corona, like a tequila mix drink, with a hint of lemon. Probably quite nice in summer when it’s very hot, but I visited Sydney in Ozzie Winter.

The clear, labelless bottle was considered revolutionary when this was launched in 1993. Which once again shows where all the creativity at CUB is directed. There’s nothing revolutionary about the contents. Pale gold, fluffy 1.5cm head, moderate length. Standard CUB lager aroma - pea soup and wet cardboard. Skinny body, even by CUB standards. Flavour is just as thin - corn and sugar. The hops provide a mild sensation in the finish but scant taste. One of the poorer CUB lagers.