Carlton Premium Dry

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

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

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Bottled (thanks Kaj!, enjoyed during the 10th anniversary of RB fame 2Pac). Yellowish golden colour with a small head. Aroma is grains, bread, herbs and still quite refreshing. Flavour is sweet malts, grains, bread, herbs, floral notes and mild notes of toast as well. Rating is approved by mulkku.

this beer definitely sucked arse, as eczematic said, absoluetly no flavour whatsoever, terrible. don’t bother with this one honestly, it will only end in dissapointment....bloooohhhhr!

really don’t know why i tried this

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.

Pale straw colour with a frothy white head and good lacing. Hop aroma. Not a lot of taste, thin, a touch of lemon and a touch of banana and not much else.

Bottled, with Sats, in Sydney. Cats piss yellow an unable to maintain a head. Rancid corn aroma and flavour, not even particularly dry. Absolute rubbish in a bottle.

Had this one during my holiday in Australia april/may 2009. Golden, orange colored brew. No aroma. Watery, dry, bitterness, dusty, dull aftertaste.

355ml bottle. Amber honey colour that is clear and mildly carbonated and does not have much of a head, almost flat looking. Hard to detect any aroma, just a hint of malt poking through. Tastes of custard powder and banana and is light and dry in the mouth.

Hope I have the right beer as there was nothing sweet in the aroma or flavour of this one to give it any life. Tasted from the bottle (355ml, 4.5% ABV) and poured into a tallboy. Clear pale gold, with irregular carbonation holding up a decent fluffy white head, that lasted and left foam lacing down the glass. Appearance was alright, but the beer was not. I had just tasted a Boag’s St. George and this suffered from the same adjunct ridden, yeast infected aroma. Corn, DMS boiled vegie’ water and a sour hop note that turned my stomach. Thankfully it was quite clean in the mouth, but the aroma still lingered. Feather weight in body and biting in carbonation, with an acrid ’Tonic water’ and cardboard feel that left little to impress. Anything detected on the tongue was that light on that it borderlined on tasteless, and the crisp dry finish left me wondering if I was drinking beer at all. The only good point to this beer was that the liquor used was extremely clean. Another embarrassing marketing blunder by yet another macro ’bean counter’.

Anything described as 'dry' is going to be short on mouthfeel and body. Also it lacks balance as the bitterness is not matched by the malt, so even though they have used the best malted barley CUB decided to add some additional adjuncts to ferment the taste out of the beer. Well done lads, you have succeeded