Carlton & United Breweries (CUB - Asahi) Reviews

ANZUShophunter	2.4 Power’s Ultra Smooth Lager On tap at Beach House, Garden City. Pours clear golden amber w/white head that left rings of lace, light grainy aroma. That it's quite spicy up front is at odds with "Smooth" descriptor, fairly clean finish Wednesday, April 17, 2024
ResinousTeam67	1.5 Carlton Crown Lager Thursday, April 11, 2024
ResinousTeam67	2 Victoria Bitter Wednesday, April 10, 2024
thansen29	2.5 Carlton Crown Lager Saturday, April 6, 2024
thansen29	2.5 Carlton Draught Friday, April 5, 2024
ResinousTeam67	2 Victoria Pale Lager Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Mr_Pink_152	3.3 Abbotsford Invalid Stout Bottle at an Irish bar in Melbourne. Off black clout with a tan head. Aroma and taste are Roasted malty and coffee. light dry. medium body. Sunday, March 24, 2024
arvidspiny	2 Pure Blonde Ultra Low Carb Lager Wednesday, March 6, 2024
mkel07	3.5 Mercury Hard Cider Can purchased from First Choice Liquorstore and drank on 25 December 2023. Sweet with a strong Granny Smith Apple flavour, no surprises there. Light and watery looking in the glass but very refreshing in the mouth. Sunday, February 11, 2024
arvidspiny	3 Carlton Crown Lager Wednesday, February 7, 2024
mkel07	3 Carlton Dry Juicy Mango Can purchased from BWS and drank on 15 December 2023. Looks like a standard pale lager but this beers saving grace is that the mango flavour at least gives it a bit of sweetness and negates the blandness that usually comes with Carlton Dry. Wednesday, January 31, 2024
mkel07	2.7 Carlton Dry Zesty Lemon Date Drank: 10 November 2023 Purchase Location: BWS Beer Number From Brewery: 50 Container: Can - 330ml Glass Type: Lager Country Number: 6783 - Australia Style Number: 504 - American Pale Lager Appearance: Sudsy white head that laces the glass, light straw colour with a lot of clarity Aroma: Strong, lemon Flavour: Light, the only real flavour is lemon Mouthfeel: Thin, watery Drink Again: No Comments: I guess this is aimed at the younger beer drinkers Sunday, January 7, 2024
lucascuervo	1.7 Spill Easy Going Lager Thursday, January 4, 2024
danlo	2.2 Carlton Dry 375ml can at Barangaroo. Gold colour, white foam head and aroma of malt, grain. Taste is malty, grainy, with some papery bitterness. Medium bodied, high carbonation, drying metallic bitter finish. OK cold. Sunday, December 31, 2023
danlo	2.2 Mercury Hard Cider- Crushed Raspberry 375ml can from Dan Murphy's, Hurstville. Clear pinkish golden colour, thin foam head and aroma of apple, raspberry, sulphur. Taste is sweet, apple, raspberry, jammy, sugary, booze. Syrupy mouthfeel, medium bodied, light carbonation, sweet finish. Very very sweet, meh! Friday, December 29, 2023
danlo	2.6 Mercury Hard Cider - Passionfruit 375ml can from Dan Murphy's, Hurstville. Clear golden colour, white foam head and aroma of apple, passionfruit hint. Taste is sweet, apple, fruity, some passionfruit flavour, sugary, with alittle citric tartness. Medium bodied, high carbonation, sweet fruity finish. Quite sweet. Thursday, December 28, 2023
mkel07	2.5 Carlton Dry Tropical Passionfruit Date Drank: 2 October 2023 Purchase Location: Liquorland Beer Number From Brewery: 49 Container Type: Can - 330ml Glass Type: Lager Country Number: 6727 - Australia Style Number: 199 - Flavoured - Fruit Appearance: Loose soapy white head, golden amber colour Aroma: Strong, passionfruit, and plenty of it Flavour: Sweet, sickly, passionfruit Mouthfeel: Thin bodied with a long sweet finish Drink Again: No Comments: Loaded with passionfruit to hide the blandness Friday, November 24, 2023
Alerich	4 Victoria Bitter Wednesday, November 22, 2023
robline	2.4 Victoria Bitter Friday, November 17, 2023
Ross1969	3.2 Carlton Crown Lager Thursday, November 9, 2023
LovibondLees54	2.5 Victoria Bitter Saturday, November 4, 2023
TedE	0.6 Carlton Dry Juicy Mango 330ml can into schooner. From BWS, Glen Innes. Crystal clear amber beer with a solid bubbly white head. Only the occasional bubble ascends.. Smell of, I don't know, washing up liquid? Weirdly sweet and industrial. Taste is sweet and plastic. Really really hard to drink.Wow, this hideous. Each mouthful actually gets worse. The horror, the horror. Thursday, October 26, 2023
TedE	2.1 Carlton Dry Zesty Lemon 330ml can into schooner. From BWS, Glen Innes. Crystal clear goden amber beer with a bubbly white head. Nose of lemon and malt, quite nice. Light carbonation. Taste is ALL lemon. No real beer characteristics until the finish. Reminds me of the shandy soft drinks you can buy in the UK. Thursday, October 26, 2023
rat	2 Spill Easy Going Lager pours pale yellow thin whitehead very thin. aroma floral pine and cut grass,taste slight malty and slightly sweet and a tiny bit of bitterness and a fake taste? a OK beer Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Ross1969	3.2 Victoria Bitter Friday, September 29, 2023
Ross1969	3.3 Carlton Draught Friday, September 29, 2023
hman43	3.2 Carlton Draught It pours golden and clear with a white head and good retention. It has slight skunking with a light herbal floral quality and berry like notes. There are floral with light tropical. It is on the bitter side. Sunday, September 3, 2023
hman43	3.7 Victoria Bitter It pours golden with a white head. The head retention is good. It has citrus flavors with some beady elements and low caramel. Sunday, September 3, 2023
Ross1969	3.2 Melbourne Bitter Thursday, August 31, 2023
mrf33n3y	2.2 Carlton Mid Old Untappd checkin, March 5, 2019. Pours a lifeless gold color with a slight white head. Light malty flavor with an overly crisp finish. It’s drinkable at that’s the best I can say. Friday, August 11, 2023
mrf33n3y	2 Melbourne Bitter Old Untappd checkin, February 24, 2019. Pours a clear medium gold with a moderate white head. Malty body without being too sweet, with a crisp and bitter finish. Not great by any means. Friday, August 11, 2023
MaltMuse159	2.6 Abbotsford Invalid Stout Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Davros	1.9 Victoria Bitter XTRA VX Pours amber with a large fading white head. Nose shows cardboard, vegetal notes, slight lemon, soft biscuity malt. Flavours include more biscuity malt, a slight cardboard character, a bit of very soft spicy hops. Monday, April 24, 2023
mkel07	2.7 Victoria Bitter Xtra Bottle from Liquorland Loganholme on 26 March 2023. Lucky that this beer comes in a 250ml bottle as I think I would have struggled to drink much more than that. Wednesday, April 12, 2023
mkel07	2.5 Power’s Ultra Smooth Lager 4 March 2023. On tap at Chatswood Hills Tavern. Had a bit more colour than I was expecting but unfortunately it had the same bland flavour that I was expecting. Sunday, April 9, 2023
ALLOVATE	1.9 Victoria Bitter XTRA VX My father in law just got back from his home in Tobago stating they just reduced the size of beer bottles to combat alcoholism - sounds like a tax grab!? Besides this just being a high gravity ferment, less watered down version of VB, I didn't feel less embarrassed purchasing it from my local bottlo'. They saw the joke and the fad of ridiculous 'stronger' versions of the like of Tooheys and Hahn reemerging for some wasteless reason. Anyway, onto the beer! Into a tiny brandy snifter, chilled; coz that's all the beer I get!. Unknown why they went for a crown cap!? Not implying this one is to be cellared like an English Russian Imperial Stout? Honey gold body and bright with little head retention and little as far as carbonation. Aroma of regret and mourning; of rusty ol' Datsun car bodies, sweaty socks in a young man's room and bar towels, not cleaned for weeks. Stagnant, metallic with a hit of toasted corn, burnt toast and something chemical I'd use to clean pipes. On the palate it's 'VB', just as if they made a sauce reduction version; more concentrated. I had the option of a good fifty stouts on show, and I chose this!? Sweet and clammy. Artificially sweet; not something I can define. Seems well above 6.0% ABV. Like Skol, or Okocim Strong, but with a metallic taste reminiscent of its smaller, older brother. It was gone in two mouthfuls. Low in bitterness and freshness. Drabby, kind of bready with little hop or malt definition. Rank aftertaste. Pride of Ringwood playing its heady target. Nothing here to celebrate. And why the red label? Forgettable in history! (25cL, BB 18/11/2023, Cellarbrations, Lynwood) Tuesday, April 4, 2023
rat	1.5 Victoria Bitter XTRA VX pours light copper thin white head aroma of corn and malt taste sweet nutty taste Wednesday, March 29, 2023
TedE	2.5 Victoria Bitter XTRA VX Throwdown bottle from BWS, Glen Innes. Pale clear amber beer with thin white head, light carbonation. Light malt nose. Plasticine taste, sharp carbonation. Sweet boozy finish. Better than VB, not a great endorsement but there it is. Sunday, March 19, 2023
lucascuervo	2.2 Carlton Draught Saturday, March 11, 2023
hawthorne00	2.4 Melbourne Bitter A little caramel, some weeds. Less weedy but more bitterness than VB - so meeker but cleaner. Saturday, March 11, 2023
hawthorne00	2.3 Victoria Bitter XTRA VX I understand the decision to name it after a nerve gas and to package it in grenades (the local name for 250ml stubbies) but why put in Melbourne Bitter colours? Surely hi viz would have been the go. Ooh, crown seal not a twist top. Clear golden amber with a swiftly vanishing white head. Familiar but perhaps slightly more intense aroma of caramel, grain and weeds. A bit more sweet presence in the malt side of things but - swings and roundabouts- that just emphasises how quickly it flabbily drops away at the end. But it’s not dreadful, just not for me. Friday, March 10, 2023
Morboso	2.8 Victoria Bitter XTRA VX Concentrating the flavour of mass produced Aussie lager swill into a smaller bottle with higher alc/vol makes this mass produced aussie lager swill pretty good (for a lager) having some bitterness in a cute baby sized bottle with an appropriate red-flag red label (rather than the traditional green VB label) as well as an another warning about the dangers of alcohol to your baby just in case the baby sized bottle makes it attractive to babies or pregnant women. Friday, March 10, 2023
arvidspiny	3 Victoria Bitter ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Monday, March 6, 2023
mkel07	2 Spill Easy Going Lager 22 January 2023. Can from Liquorland. Another gimmicky mass produced pale lager that doesn’t have too much flavour. Friday, February 24, 2023
mkel07	1.5 Carlton Spill Easy Going Lager 22 January 2023. Can from Liquorland. There is nothing at all good about this very standard Pale Lager. Sunday, January 22, 2023
hawthorne00	2 Carlton Dry Can. 2pac day, but alas, he rated Carlton Premium Dry. Was that the same beer? Who can fucken say. Gold with a collapsing white head. Cheap, grainy aroma. Edging up on watery. Sweetish and bland. Cleanish with very slight weedy bitterness that does that odd trick of being harsh despite there not being much of it. Friday, January 20, 2023
oh6gdx	1.8 Carlton Dry Hard Lager Canned@Tallinn Crap Beer Festival 2019. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is herbs, rubber, grains and some mild metallic notes. Flavour is earthy, some dusty and mild rubbery tones. Harsh. No malts. Saturday, December 31, 2022
TedE	2 Carlton Sungazer Fruity Beer (Raspberry) 300ml can into glass. A free gift from BWS, Glen Innes. So no great expectations here. Pours a pale amber with zero head, high carbonation and a smell of raspberries that fills the room. Taste is slightly beer-like, zingy light carbonation. Finish is sweet raspberry with a lingering fruity sourness. One is definitely enough. Too much sweetness, not enough body. Friday, December 30, 2022
mkel07	2 Empire Fruity Beer - Orange and Mango 27 October 2022 can from Dan Murphy’s. Tastes like carbonated fruit juice but doesn’t look nearly as good. Saturday, November 5, 2022
mkel07	1.1 Empire Fruity Beer - Strawberry & Lime 3 November 2022. Can from BWS. Very sweet and very ordinary. More strawberry than lime in the flavour and super clear in the glass. Friday, November 4, 2022