Cascade Green

Brewed by Cascade Brewery (CUB)
Style: Pale Lager
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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

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Despite my natural instincts this was a quite drinkable beer. Terrible (no) head with a flat look. However was reasonably crisp and cleansing. Marketing Dept has gone overbaord with the Green tag though.

Green hop aroma, bright orange in colour with no head. Big malty flavour. Typical of mass produce bber in Aussie. Only gets bonus point for off setting my carbon foot print for my flith to Australia. But I di think it takes into account my waste!!!! :)

Bottle. I share the views of the well-stated criticisms of this beer’s gimmicky nature. Basically, having a single beer designated "green" from a brewery that produces a large range of other beers on the same site is like designating a tiny corner of a public pool as "piss-free". Unless you have every kid in the pool stop pissing (or have every beer from the brewery "greenified"), you’re claims of being piss-free don’t mean very much at all. And as for the beer itself: grassy hop aroma, empty grainy palate with an abrupt finish that leaves no indication you’ve just had beer in your mouth.

Pretty ordinary for a full flavoured lager, this beer has been in the store for a month or two and there has been no interest in it at all. Pale body with a very short head. Green apple on the aroma and in the taste, not much else though.

This beer is so environmentally-friendly it makes Tim Flannery seem like a coal-fired nature-hating Tasmanian lumberjack. It’s carbon neutral. Hurray! It uses recycled materials. Hurray! It’s "committed to a sustainable future". Hurray! It’s preservative free. Hurray! It’s all-natural. Hurray! The label is green. So what! The bottle is green. Boo! It’s low carb. Boo! It tastes like shit. Boo! In other words, three cheers for the concept and a resounding round of boos for the end result. It has the usual disinterested appearance of a CUB lager - pale straw with a brief head that had better things to do than hang around. The aroma seemed plain weird - like a feral cat pissed in a punch bowl. Tropical cordial odours, blackcurrant, marmalade and tramp pants. The flavour follows a similar vein. There’s a promising initial flicker of orangey/citric fruit but it’s quickly tempered by the familiar Pride of Ringwood finish. There’s leatherwood honey in a very sweet mix and it falls away to a dry... fading... finish... No real body - that’s low-carb beers for you. Over-fizzy. "It’s not easy being green," sang Van Morrison. If he’d tried this, he might have added that it’s not easy drinking it, either. (330ml bottle from Liquor on Parade, Kingsford. BB 31/10/08)

UPDATED: JUN 8, 2008 Bottle (330ml). Poured a pale yellow with a small; rocky, white head which was average lasting. Aroma had strong notes of sweet cornish malts with honey, lemon (mild) and some wet paper. Flavor was extremely thin and watery with sweet malts, honey, very light bitterness, wet paper (mild) and a slight metallic finish. Light bodied with lively carbonation, watery texture, dry mouthfeel (mild) and a non-existent finish.

Bottled, whilst in Sydney.
An important point that seems to be overlooked on the ratings so far is that this beer is a ’low Carb’ beer...and doesn’t taste material different to most on the market. Clean, crisp and un-offensive the beer is drinkable if your watching the waistline.

At first I had a hard time finding this in the site, it is a cascade beer, not a CUB beer. BUT, this is actually a good example of a CUB beer. This is a concept, a marketing exercise, a sound bite, not a beer (well at least not a good one). Aroma is skunky, pour is straw with a thin white head. Flavour is a thin, slightly citrus mid palate with a watery finish. To paraphrase crusty the clown "If living in a world where all beer tastes like this? I think the living would envy the dead" Carbon neutral beer? no thanks.

Clear - pale yellow colour with no head, average carbonation, watery, fizzy mouth feel. Average pale lager.

This should be listed under Cascade Brewery (CUB). Just another mass produced lager. Marketed as a Carbon Neutral beer due to the purchase of carbon offsets. That’s well and good but a little more attention to the brewing would not have gone astray. Gassy, weak and watery.