Carlton Crown Lager

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

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

Acctually one of the better brews to be had in Australia. Drinks very well. Goes down smooth. Has a nice color and malt to it. Worth a go.

This is the same recipe as VB and thus the exact same beer . But the lame ass gold bottle gives fake props and emphasis.Corny ,syrupy and fulla h2o. Wack ass shit.

Bottle at the DEL. Agree with other rathers that the raised emblem on the bottle is the high point of this lager. Not that it’s bad, just unremarkable and rather bland.

UPDATED: APR 22, 2009 375ml bottle into lager glass. A light yellow lager with a small rapidly disappearing white head. Nose of sweet malts and very subtle floral hops. Flavours of grainy sweet malt with a medium-light body. Sickly sweet finish. Extremely bland. This is Australia’s best selling "premium" beer which just goes to show the power of marketing and packaging on the average beer drinker. Sad..

0,375 l bottle, bought at WestendCityCenter, downtown. Poured straw color, small white but lacing head. Avarage aroma of sourish yeast, some caramel and pale malt, some hop. Medium bodied beer, some caramel malt in the flavor, grassy hop. Nothing special.

Sample from 330 ml bottle, as Crown Lager, at the Brewery International stand, Smak 09. ABV is 4.9%. Golden colour, low head. Fruity aroma. Fairly fruity and zesty flavour, some estery sidenotes, low bitterness. Not a great beer, but drinkable.

Not as bad as American macros. Pours thin gold. Decent aroma, easy to drink. Nothing special.

No 628, Rated 05.12.2008, Bottle brown, 375 ml, contains sulphur dioxide, Appearance Pours almost perfectly clear body in texture, body colour is qpaque golden, quite intensive not weak or yellow, or yellowish but just beautiful golden body, carbonation of the body is moderate, head is very impressive, snowy white, frothy in texture, very regular, consisiting of very small thin grains, there is a nice lacing, when comes to size head is initially big and long lasting over the time, slowly decreasing but not disappearing completely, Aroma My first impression is that the aroma is unfortunately deprived of hops what to expect from macro Australian Plae Lager, gently sweet notes of malted barley and slight notes of pop corn, chalky, corny, slightly dusty, clean aroma, its a pity this doesnt have any hoppy profile as than would remind me of some Czech Bohemian Pilseners, Flavour Very simple but it has an interesting hoppy factor becoming finally present in flavour, slight and very gentle bitter, herbal, leavy hoppy scent in nose and on palate make this beer together with quite high carbonation on palate quite refreshing, much better than Carlsberg although in Poland very rarely found and extremely expensive due to the export being only reasonable to buy due to curiosly and tasting rating purposes, quite nice Pale Lager surprisingly becoming rich in mild hoppyness not being present at all in aroma, citrusy, herbal, spicy, leavy hoppyness with gentle grainy malty backing going together with corn and pop corn, some flowery notes at the end in nose, finish duration is moderate, Palate Body is light, texture is wattery, carbonation on palate is lively, finish feel is grainy, chalky with sweetness of maltyness and corn with herbal notes