Carlton Dry Fusion

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Fruit Beer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Serve in Flute

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Bottle. I really wanted to hate this - adding lime, and then of all things salt, to a beer is a horrible thing to do, yet I couldn’t. It is crisp and refreshing, and not all that bad really. Initially it tastes like beer, with lime and salt as unusual aftertastes, yet as one drinks more and more, it tastes less and less of beer and salt and more and more of lime. As a beer I hate it, because it is turning beer into an alcopop and destroying what it really is, but as a drink, ignoring the beer aspect, I can’t help but enjoy it.

Good girls drink or easy drinking beer, not for the real beer drinker. But a great cheap alternative to spirits

Had one of these on a trip to Australia and I didn’t realize until I’d poured it and started drinking that there was an infusion of lime flavor (guess I should read the labels more closely). The lime is almost too strong in there--guess it’s meant to compete with some of the American and Mexican beers that infuse a citrus flavor? Very thin and watery and not something I’d be eager to try a second time.

Sweet floral fruit amlt hop aroma. Clear amber colour with fair head and lacing. Malt time lemon flavour. Fizzy palate. Another poor CUB product... :(

Yeah, salty and way out of balance in flavour. The ’lime’ was very powerful and the overall taste was still bland and watery. I guess if you don’t like beer this could provide suitable supplement.

Given how well I have heard this beer is supposed to be selling I’m suprised that there are only 6 ratings so far. I found the beer to be just another watery nothing beer that’s easy to drink. The lime/saltiness present in the flavour isn’t great. There are plenty of worse beers out there but still - not great. - 330ml green bottle.

Pours like a beer but doesn’t really taste like a beer, I suppose the lime and salt covers the lack of any other flavours. Fortunately I didn’t have to pay for this beer.

Bottle. Very sweet lime infused beer that pours a thin pale yellow. Overpowering aroma of citrus that assaults your nose. Another in a long line of new style beers from major breweries trying to clone overseas competition.

same as the bland carlton dry, but added artificial lime and salt. not an improvement

Smells and tastes like dish washing detergent and artificial lime flavoring. Absolutely awful.