Carlton Sheaf Stout

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Foreign Stout
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Pour is very nice pitch black with a nice creamy brown head and decent lacing. Aroma is that of dark chocolate, coffee, dark roasted malts. Flavor is bitter with a hint of sweetness. The palate is a huge disappointment because its way too fizzy. Overall would be great but the palate is so offputting that its just ok.

500 ml bottle bought at the Boise Co-op. Best before July 2010- drank October 2009. Pours a completely black color with a thick brown head. The aroma is milky, chocolates, roasted malts. A smooth, sweet flavor; roasted malts, milk chocolate, light roasted bitterness. Very nice and quaffable. A very good beer, quite drinkable and full of quality.

Pours a deep black with creamy light cocoa head. Strange aroma almost sour. Flavor is some of that same off sourness. Not a lot but it is there. Beyond that not getting much roastiness at all. Kind of bland. I haven’t had much luck with austrailian beers and this doesn’t help the cause.

Poured very dark brown, creamy, chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, little coffee.

Boring stout, a little earthy, a little malty, and a little bit chocolatey. Pretty much the definition of a mediocre dark beer. Possibly a little too bitter as far as the style goes. At least it’s pretty cheap.

My first Australian beer! Despite a terribly hideous bottle, not too bad. Looks super dark and tastes like carbonated dark chocolate and blackened toast. Some syrupy sweetness, but I think that comes from having to drink so much of it.

This is as close to Carlton Cold that I’ve seen yet.... so after choppin wood, I decided to throw one back. The beer was almost black with one of the most unique heads I’ve ever seen, it does the whole espresso swirl thing but it’s all thick and fluffy on the edges of the glass. The aroma is some roasty coffee and burnt toast. The flavor follows with the burnt toast thing, but it’s so under control that it is very pleasant. Complimentary flavors include plums, molasses and some chocolate. The palate is way too watery.

375ml bottle. I have to say, this is pretty poor. It lacks the rich flavour and creamy body of a proper stout, and is merely a typical macro attempt at making a dark beer. What limited flavour there is dark chocolate, but with a slightly off-putting sickly sweetness lurking in the background. There is no finish to speak of. If you are looking for a reasonably-priced dark Aussie beer, I would strongly recommend you avoid this in favour of the infinitely more pleasant and easier-to-find Tooheys Old.