Carlton Light

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Well, this has got one up ona lot of the CUB products - it actually is drinkable. To some degree anyway, because it tastes remarkably like soda water with a hint of PoR. There actually is a bit of an aroma, although thankfully it disappears on tasting because it’s not great. I still find it amazing that companies can get away with putting things like "full flavoured" on beers like this - bring on the ACCC! zzzzzz...

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

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)

Points for looking like a beer. Mild bitter aroma and aftertaste. Absolutely no flavour.

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?

This stuff used to be 3.5% alcohol and therefore was a midstrengh. CUB must have been directed to change the alcohol to match the Light label, hence it is now only around the 2.5% mark. Before the change, this was a perfectly acceptable malty mistrength beer, that was actually quite nice from the tap. Now it is a lifeless offensive excuse for a beer, but then again what;s new CUB?

like eating cardboard that a cat pissed on three weeks ago. wait, with some black banana ooze on top.

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