Cascade Green

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

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

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.

Bottle. Very boring bland beer with a mildy bitter finish. Much better than the equivalants of carlton dry or pure blonde .etc.

Clear gold pour very low carbonation mild head aroma some mild sweet malt flavour mild sweetness a caramel note nothing much else very bland beer no bitter finish mild sweetness nothing to think of krap

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.

Not the best offering that Cascade have put forward. Pours into the glass okay with a nice head and aroma of hops and not much else.

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.

During a very nice dinner in a Brasserie in Bunbury the owner of Mash brewing suggested forgetting the concept of lower carbohydrate lagers and harnessing the G8 Summits idea of lower emissions and creating the first truly eco-friendly beer. The thought was inane to me, so I fell silent until the conversation had digressed onto something else. Not three weeks later, this beer made the headlines and was released for sale. I was gob smacked and quite bemused. Why the need to advertise that only one beer from this brewer is eco-friendly when the rest of the range isn’t. Would it not be a better move marketing-wise to have the entire Cascade portfolio of beers produced in this way, otherwise why bother. So my bias was set before even purchasing a bottle that this was a paltry and pathetic attempt playing at our sudden sympathies towards the planet in which we live. Enough rambling:- Pours a pale, yellow gold, thin and sparkling. Charged with CO2 it raises one mean, artificial inch and a half of foam that dwindles just a little to leave a messy lace upon the glass. Ah, yes, classic Aussie lager P. of R. tinniness on the nose with a little hint of lemongrass and sweaty sock – Nice!!! In the mouth a slight herbal tang off sets an otherwise wet cardboardy palate. Subtle nuances of sourdough, vanilla, weak lemon cordial and rust linger on and in the swallow. It is extremely watery and fizzy on the tongue. Seems more an exploitative ploy, a ‘label’, than a beer. This is just another forgettable lager. This will not do anything to render the state of the environment ‘sustainable’ at all, but, hey, lets all jump on the bandwagon. Let’s all brew ‘Green’!!!! (33cL, The Beer Store Morley)

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!!!! :)

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)