Carlton Light

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Low Alcohol
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2005 Bottled. Pale golden, airy head. Light raspberry aroma. Sweet and rather thin with some flavours of cardboard and metallic vegetables. Luckily the awful flavours of Melbourne Bitter is here diluted, making this a much more drinkable liquid.

Pale golden colour, thick white head. Pale malt aroma, a bit cardboardy and stale. Faint honey sweetness. Very simple and boring.

what can i say? no worse than expected. watered down industrial golden sunshine

Pale straw yellow, weak grainy aroma, same watery weak palate. You’ve reeeaaallly got to be low on choices to turn to this stuff.

Almost golden body, short lasting head, lager taste with some bitterness. Still it was boring but inoffensive.

OK. Not a bad light beer, pale colour, no head. Grainy aroma, very water-like body, quite boring.

They have a lovely picture of barley on the label. Nice touch, if only there was some in the can. Why do people bother with light beer?

Things that Carlton Light is light on: flavour, smell, body, head, alcohol, barley malt, flair, invention, ambition, passion, character, quality, pleasure. It’s drab-looking lager with a sparse standard-issue CUB head (no point in a brewer worrying about head when the beer will be drunk from a stubby, is there?) The aroma is piercingly uric and grassy. There are unexpected honey notes in the mid-palate before a classic metallic POR finish. To be fair, this has solid bitterness for a low-alcohol beer. Just a pity it’s bitterness of the sucking-pennies variety. Soda-water thin body. By no means the worst in the CUB range. (330ml bottle. Best before Jan 2007)