Carlton Draught

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

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

Bottle - thanks sis! Light gold and clear with fine carbonation - better looking than most American light lagers. Light malt aroma, with definite notes of corn and hops. Light malt flavors, with some minerally hops, and doughy / yeasty notes. Finishes fair bready to me.

From the sublime Wig & Pen Velvet Stout to the ridiculous. The ’big ad’ campaign was brilliant and has apparently launched this on the way to becoming Australia’s best-selling beer. Give the marketers a pay rise because there’s precious little in the bottle to distinguish it from a dozen other industrial Australian lagers. Pale gold, perhaps slightly darker than average, with a loose lather that showed fair length. Sweet malty aroma with some cornflakes, lemonade and - surprisingly - more hop presence than the rest of the standard pub line-up. However, in the mouth, it’s the same old same old. Stale cardboardy malt and a sugary mid-palate to take the edge off the POR finish. Quite dry in the finish to ensure you feel like another. Burp inducing carbonation. This is actually better than VB, but not by enough to make much of a difference. (375ml bottle, bb Sep 11 06)

This is the beer of choice for white supremacists, rioters and the Bra boys. Goes down very well with the drunken mob, and assists in fueling pent up racial tension. Although the advice is to serve in a dimpled mug, straight out of the bottle is often preferred. See http://network.news.com.au/image/0,10114,5085625 endorsement.

I can’t really think of anything nice to say about this lager except that it has a decent ad campaign. Sweet nutty taste with boring hop bitterness, about as good as any other Aussie macro junk.

ahh carlton draught. Here is a perfect beer for guzzling. It isn’t too sweet, bitter, malty or fizzy, it is semi flat, slightly hopped and served best cold. very few beers allow you to guzzle 20 pots in a night, but this one does. Yes there is cane sugar and nasty Pride of Ringwood hops, but on a 40 degree day in a beer garden, it is amazingly approachable. That said it still gets a crap rating cos it ain’t that special

The old standby for me. If there is nothing else to drink, I’ll have one of these please. Due to it’s cheapness, it is my beer of choice when out on the town. It’s like VB but less... crap. It can be actually very nice and refreshing if you are feeling a bit arid. At home I try to do better than this if I have more than $5 to my name

Clear golden color, short head. Not much aroma, because it is served very cold. Bitter and dry taste. Bit crisp and dry palate.

Pale golden, clear, medium head. I wouldn’t go so far as calling this "foul", but it is pretty boring. Sweet malt is really all you get for flavour (the same as all corn-adjunct, over-processed pale lagers on the market). I wouldn’t choose to drink it again if an alternative were available, but I wouldn’t turn it down if the beerfridge was empty on a Friday night. This is my standard review for all "two-star-or-less" piss.