Carlton Pure Blonde

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 in Sydney airport. A light golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of straw as well as lighter notes of metal. The flavor is sweet with notes of straw and metal. The mouthfeel is flat due to lack of malt, which also makes the body light.

(Bottle 33 cl) Clear, golden with a small, white head. Discreet aroma of malt and brewing cereal. Medium-bodied with a light maltiness and a dry, sulphurous finish. At least for a Low Carb it is pretty drinkable. 280108

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2005 Bottled. Golden coloured with dishwater-like head. Light bready aroma. Fairly sweet with strange, artificial plastic flavour. Thin, but not sharp. Drinkable, but certainly not enjoyable.

Found this champ in KL. Golden with big bubbles. Barely any head. Aroma is wet grass, grain, light pediococcus maybe and slight rotting vegetables (bad sulphur). Fizzy body. Vague graininess on the palate but mostly water.

Bottle at a small Aussie-Kiwi beer festival in Copenhagen. Pale colour with a short lasting head. Weak aroma of malt...nothing else to notice as it was the beer was served quite cold. Flavour is waterish with some weak maltiness and little graininess. No aftertaste. A very waterish brew indeed! If the blonde refers to the style of beer then I thats a great joke.

Bottle. Another bland, crappy lager from our innovative friends at Carlton and United. Impossible to write about the flavour, aroma, etc, when it doesn’t have any.....zzzzzz.

had a bottle of this at a party which at least meant i didn’t have to pay too much attention to it. limp and yellow and with only some corn syrup flavour

Clear bottle, bought in KL grocery store. Pours a stomach-sinking yellow-gold with thin, scant cap. Smells like something you put into a car engine, a very harsh metallic aroma, with chemically-treated wood shavings and ethanol. Fizzy thin palate finishes like tonic water. Tastes a lot like tonic water or mineral water with the slightest hint of unmalted barley husks. Tastes better than it smells and feels ok in the head.

Very 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). Very thin palate. If you really need to drink while you lose weight, why not drink a better beer, just less often? Not one I’d come back too.

UPDATED: NOV 25, 2010 Tap in Torquay, Victoria. Pour is wildy fizzy clear yellow to straw with a detergent white head. Pretty good lacing down the glass that you can’t totally scoff at. Aroma is detergent, soap, slight chemical. Taste is tinny, metallic, slightly biting, very suddy and soapy. Sort of like drinking dish water. 3/3/3/2/6=1.7

330mL. The pour is still nice leaving pretty good sheety, detergent lace that cannot be ignored. Nose is soapy dish water, sweet grain, light butter. Taste is a massive chemical play on the palate: butter, then soap, then rich maltiness, then laundry detergent. The end result is something that I am terrified of and most pass along to unsuspecting friends. Really is undrinkable for all practical purposes. 3/3/2/2/5=1.5