Carlton Cold

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

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

Bottle: Small white foamy head. Smells a bit like milk close to it’s experation date. Clear golden color. Taste malts, just slight hint of hops, very light taste. Hints of water and just slightly bitter and sour. Not interesting.

clean, crisp, cool and refreshing. shame there is no flavour, a very bland beer, but to be expected from CUB

A good pour gold coloured beer good head aroma grassy metallic sour hay flavour makes me cringe soapy bitter metallic hint of fruit but the bad flavours have booted that to hellsour grass old veg finish sour bitter pathetic know why I do not rate these every month but at least it looked good

Nice, had it at an Aussie bar and was really interesintg. NOt as dry as the others I have found in the UK.

375ml clear bottle. Light gold colour, holds a small white head. Dusty, grainy malt aroma. Flavour is quite grainy, one dimensional. Mineral finish. Dry, light bodied, medium carbonation. Surprised to find that there were no off flavours or skunkiness from the clear bottle, rather what I got was something bland. Tastes pretty industrial /manufactured. Glad I found a single.

Golden, white fizzy head, lively carbonated. Smell of citrus fruit. Taste of unripe pineapples, sour green apples and lemon peel. Fortunately I shared the 375 ml bottle at the second beer session in Tårnrommet 29.01.09, and didn’t have to drink a lot of it.

Bottled 375ml. Appearance: It pours a pale golden beer with a huge white head. poor sticky spotted lacework. Aroma: Glue, sour apples and cardboard appearing. Flavor and palate: A huge amount of old socks, sour apples and vomit showing up. Sweet malty. Metallic. No bitterness and carbonation. Astringent on the swallow. Unplesant finish. Overall impression. This is an extremely poor pale lager. Almost undrinkable.

Bottle - initial pour looks OK, but there is something weird with the head that makes it look plastic, especially as it goes down the glass. No real flavours or arom. Gets really harsh as the chill comes off.