Kent Old Brown

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

Pale brown amber beer, no head at all. Sweet aroma, especially toffee and brown sugar. Thin body and flavour, light nuttiness.

Bright light brown colour. Metallic brown sugary aroma. Really thin. Macro dark lager without the dark. Bleh.

Hugely inferior rival to Tooheys Old in the Aussie macro ’old’ stakes. Makes Old seem like a masterpiece. Poured an amber colour, which as Mullet says, barely meets the criterion for a brown ale. Skinny head is gone in 60 seconds. Horrible artificial-smelling aroma with faint chocolate notes. Desperately thin on body and flavour. Cardboardy malt is the dominant flavour. Bit of caramel if you look for it. Burp-inducing carbonation. Little or no finish. Pretty disgraceful. (Bottle, best before 30/11/05)

Colour’s pretty light for a brown ale - copper/brown. Head looks artificial. Molasses, nutella on toast aroma with a bit of sweaty yeast and diacetyl. Very mild toasty flavour covers some of the typical CUB nastiness. Tastes like soda water - carbonic sourness is nearly the dominant flavour. Faintest bitterness at the end. Not a lot going on.

Tap at the Brookvale Hotel, Sydney: Clear brown gold with a solid off-white head. Lots of bead. Not much aroma; some malt and hops. Flavour of weak caramel with some flowery hops, but not much. Seemed like a brown lager to me... had that lagery flavour. Not bad but wouldn’t go out of my way to find it.

Thought this came across more as an English Bitter than a Brown Ale still it was enjoyable enough. Brown body with a short but lasting head and layers of lacing. Caramel in the taste as well as being creamy and nuttty.

An alternative to old, probably not as good. Has a weak nutty chocolate flavour with a watery cola like body. Cheap and inoffensive.

nutty, dark malts, bit of chocolate, fairly watered down mouthfeel, mothing special, but still nice and worth a try.