Carlton Draught
Carlton Draught is one of Australia's biggest selling tap beers. This traditional full strength lager, available nationally, is renowned for delivering "brewery fresh" taste. Carlton Draught provides a crisp mid-palate flavour which is balanced with a clean hop bitterness and a slightly dry finish.
1.9
201 reviews
Southbank, Australia
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Aussie beer as aussies enjoy, it doesn’t have anything particularly famous about it but it’s a good one to smash down with the fellas, some good trivia on the caps.
Can, best by June 29th 2019.
It pours a clear gold with an ample head of foam.
Big corny notes in the smell, hints of vegetables, wee bit of bitterness.
Taste is below that of XXXX Gold. Too much corn,vegetal, metallic.
Body is not better than the XXXX despite its higher abv.
Pretty poor beer.
Bottled. A golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of straw, herbs, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of grain, metal, and malt.
Clear dark golden beer with small white head. Aroma is weak malty. Taste is little sweet and bitter, watery. Light body. Thin feel. Overall cripsy and soft drinkable beer, but little bit too watery.
Appearance: crisp golden with good head
Aroma: clean malt aroma, light hops
Palate: medium mouthfeel, medium low carbonation
Taste: crisp with light hops. Undertone of malt
Iconic Australian Beer, with a great bitterness, and good head.
Bottle, thanks Riba! Dull golden body, fleeting white head. Corny, dusty aroma. Soft rubbery corny/dusty taste, perfumey, mild bitterish touch. Meh.
A one-dimensional beer that tastes mostly of malt and water. Also slightly metallic. Yellow in appearance with a white head
Good beer but need more aroma and after taste. Feels a lite small of pine apple.
Good Aussie beer for quenching that thirst, but has such a watery after taste leaving no real discernible flavour whatsoever.
Bottle, during a holiday in Australia. Backlog rating from my bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. Tasting notes not kept, just rating.
From bottle. Transfer of an earlier rating without text recorded, rating only.
On tap. Pours gold. Lots of sharp vinegar acidity, little sweet syrup, not much of anything else. It's pretty bad.
Brilliant flavour, no bitterness, wonderful after taste, leaving you wanting more. This is ’off-the-wood’ only. Bottle/can not same with can having aluminium taste that’s not favourable.
Tank Beer. Pours a very balanced head. Very malty body, extreme bready mouthfeel, caramel notes, intense aroma. Frothy head. Light sweetness
Clear golden with a smallish head. Light malty aroma. Taste is very mild and malty too. Just a very faint touch of hops. Low carbonation. Nothing special, but goes well as a simple thirst quencher like most bulk lagers. (Tap at SYD airport)
On tap. Pours a straw gold with white head. Aroma: Malts dominate. Not much else. Not particularly aromatic. Taste: Malts dominate. Very mild citrus flavour. Mild earthy/metallic flavour. Moderate to strong carbonation. Bitterness lingers on the palate. Not a pleasant brew in my mind. Over carbonated and watery in texture.
Draught @ Sydney Airport. Pours pale yellow with an offwhite head. Aroma of light malt, grain, light sweetness, light hay. Flavor is sweet, malt, grain, hay. Thin watery body, lively carbonation. Served way to cold so wasnt that bad to drink. 130317
A few drafts and bottles throughout Sydney. Light, crisp mouthfeel with notes of spice, pale malt, crisp grass and vitamins. Eh...
Tank Beer at Plough Inn, Brisbane. A little smoother than the bottled variety, but not much else to say. Metallic aroma, a touch of bitterness to taste, and lightly carbonated in the mouth.
This is unpleasant and should be avoided. There is really no reason to drink this at any point of your life except at a wedding where it is the only beer on tap. And even then, you should go for the wine. Unpleasant urinal aftertaste. Beer can only take so much punishment before it becomes a broken husk of a beverage, and the poor Carlton Draught has reached that point and then some. Light, fizzy body. An unfortunate display all round.
Nuda, nuda, nuda. Nieciekawe piwo. Typowy przemyslowy koncerniak. Lager masowy zero aromatow uchwytnych, pianka niewielka, nawet nie zdazy czlowiek sie jej przyjzec a juz znika. Kolor jasny, o odcieniu wiedenskiego lagera. Smak jakby syropu ktory jest w puszkach kukurydzy, troche nieswiezego koncentratu pomidorowego, dziwnie mi sie kojarzylo, na zakonczenie po przelknieciu zupa pomidorowa ze spora dawka ryzu. Kompletne kiepskie piwo.
Aroma of weak grainy malt. Taste has slight bitterness and something unpleasantly sweet that is hard to define. I have had worse, but this is not a nice beer.
[backlog] 27-01-15 // on tap at Genoa Pub, Australia. Standard lager, malty sweet, crisp. Nothing special.
375ml bottle.
Malty aroma with touch of sulfur.
Light amber color with thin head.
Slight bitterness with minor malty palate - an Australian Lion Red clone was the first thing that sprang to mind.
One time I was out on a pub crawl, and ended up at some place in St. Kilda. This was on tap for $2.50 pots. I had a couple of pots.. and two girls picked me up, took me home to their place. When I got there and sat on their sofa in between them, I started feeling ill and had to leave before I chundered. Dirty lines, maybe.. but have been off this stuff ever since. Typical macro crap, anyhow.
Bottle/stubbie. Poured a crystal clear golden colour with a one-finger bright white foamy head that retained very well and laced OK. Carbonation very high with coarse bubbles giving a coarse mouthfeel. Aroma of metal and a subtle hint of grain; no obvious hops. Taste is bland with a hint of metal, no real bitterness and with a slight acrid tartness. Light, very thin and watery. Crisp, smooth and clean if cold and with a slightly acrid tartness on the finish that becomes more pronounced as it warms. I’m sure it’s marginally better on tap.
375ml bottle. Pours a clear golden colour with a small, lasting white head, a little lacing left behind. Aroma is mildly hoppy, and lightly sweet pale malt. Flavour is slightly sweet malts, grains, the aftertase has a little citric/hoppy bitterness. Not a great lager but at least it’s better than Carlton Crown. Got worse as it warmed up so drink it quick.
Went to a really nice heritage pub in the country, and this was the best I could do. Grainy industrial aroma, appley and fusely. Light amber colour. Old school grainy taste... But it’s ice cold, right. Sweet and maybe a bit watery in the finish.
(Stubbie bottle) Brought to us from the fine gents @ Carlton United - who gave the world the awesome and iconic VB . Oh sure , the chemicals , vomit and pissy notes that I love in Victoria Bitter were evident but maybe just lacking the gross uniting sweetness that makes VB good , this was more sour an lactic that I like in easy drinking piss swill . I drank this while sadly watching the Aussies knock England outta the rugby World Cup .