Fosters Premium Ale
2.3
582 reviews
Southbank, Australia
Community reviews
Very average beer. Nothing offending on it, but also nothing making you want to drink more.
Pours a clear dark amber with a medium white head. The aroma doesn't offer much. Lightly metallic, bready, and hints of grain. There are positive aspects in the taste though. There is caramel, toasted malt, bread, and subtle floral hoppy hints here. While this is pretty generic, these flavors fall on the happy side. Slightly sweet and with a quick caramel finish. Medium bodied and chewy in texture. Even though I poured this into a glass, I must say its kind of fun wielding the giant 25.4 oz can. Definitely drinkable on the cheap.
9/9/18 (Chicago): Purchased 9/9/18 at Shop and Save Nagle, 750 ML can best by date 12/24/18, multiple pours into flute. Amber pour, generous puffy cloudy head, mild carbonation. Light sweet corn and malt aroma. Light malt bread taste, watery mouth feel, minimal carbonation, easy drinking. Overall mediocre beer, would not seek this one again.
Love the 2 for $5 at Jewel. Watching the Cubs and loving the taste. I will buy again. Love the color, aroma is pleasant.
25oz oil can at home. It pours a clear amber color with a white head that lingers. There is not much of an aroma. There ie also not much of a taste either. It's an easy drinking lager but nothing special
Middle of the road macro. Gold pour with no head. Metallic aroma with a slight sweetness. Caramel malt upfront sight bitter finish.
750 ml can into pint glass, best before 8/20/2018. Pours slightly hazy deep golden/orange/amber/light copper color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of honey, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of caramel, nuttiness, lemon, pear, apple, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of honey, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of caramel, nuttiness, lemon, pear, apple, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of honey, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, caramel, nuttiness, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness of bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 5.5%. Overall this is a very good English pale ale. All around nice robustness of bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very clean and nicely rich bready English malt flavors; restrained fruity yeast, and solid earthy hop balance. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example. One of the better ones I've had.
25.4floz (750ml) can, BBD: 02.18.2017, 1.75 unit cost (mix six), pint glass. Made in the USA of domestic and imported ingredients. Looks like a classic light amber English pale ale. A small head forms on the pour, and quietly rests on top. Even in a glass it smells like a can (tinny, suggesting something gritty) with some caramel mixed in. Mouthfeel is on point, but taste is a watered mixture of grain, mineral, and very light caramel flavors. Not bad, not good, wholly drinkable though.
Large green can (750ml) from a Ralph's Supermarket, brewed in the USA. Drank in the sun on 14th Dec 2017 in Laguna Niguel, California. Poured into a La Chouffe tulip glass three times, clear and clean amber body, short lasting white head. Malty lead in both the nose and flavour, fairly thin bodied and one dimensional but I liked it.
Not the best lager. Dry and stale. Tastes of lightly sweetened cardboard. Tried for the first time in 2007.
Przyjemny, ale niczym nie wyróżniający się lager. Brak posmaku, złote przejrzyste.
Light tan head that was short lived. The body is clear with a high amber color. It smells metallic and foulish, like wet laundry. It's not gross, but I don't rush to drink more. There's a near IPA finish on the palette. It's malty and sweet. It's good but not exceptional.
Not terrible. Kinda of tastes like a key stone mixed with corona. Probably wouldn't buy again but not bad.
Michigan seriously needs more English Pale Ales, so I wouldn’t have to subject myself to this. Aroma is cardboard, corn, earthy hops, musty, metallic. Appearance is amber golden, light tan head, clear. Taste is cardboard, musty, corn, metallic, bitter earthy hops, malt, bad. Mouthfeel is light to medium body, light crisp carbonation, bubbly, musty cardboard and earthy hop aftertaste. Overall, as expected, it is not good.
From old tasting notes. Tasted as "Fosters Special Bitter". Bright Amber orange color. Thick creamy beige head. Fragrant malt nose. Dryish malt flavor hints at pineapple and cantaloupe. Light bitter hop finish.
750 mL can poured to pint glass
Sight: amber golden liquid, medium white foam dissipates quickly
Smell: Malty
Taste: low bitterness, some sweetness"
Fell: good carbonation, abrupt finish
Overall: good beer, ok to repeat, but not look for BA RB
drank: Sunday, March 12, 2017 9:30 PM
Copper Amber no head with some bubbles aroma is malt grain flava is sweetish malty medium body moderate fizz finishes mildly tangy
Clear, gold pour with a white head. The aroma has some cereal grain and toast. It has a light body with crisp texture and lively carbonation. The taste is mildly bitter with a slightly dry finish.
750ml can. Old rate. This is putrid stuff, tastes like a shitty pale lager, it is brewed in texas.
Can. Golden color with creamy head. Aroma of corn flakes and grass. Taste is crisp muted cereal and sparkling water.
750ml can from the state store
Pours clear dark copper/golden with a small off-white head, light lacing. Aroma of corn, grains and sweet bread. Taste is grainy, corn, straw and medicinal
Not good but not terrible
Grabbed one a week ago for a road beer on my way home. Thought it tasted like Foster’s Lager or at least pretty close to it. Today I grabbed a Foster’s Lager for my road beer and got a Foster’s ale to drink afterwards. Got home and poured this into a glass. Dark golden brew with small head and grainy aroma. Taste is mild malt and just enough hops to balance it out. Yep this is very close to the same taste as Foster’s Lager but with a bit more mouth feel. My CAN shows this to be made in USA by Oil Can Brewery, Fort Worth, TX.
Orange, small beige head, honey aroma, caramelly, candy, toffee, bitter flavor, diacetyl, oxidation, toffee, bread, light bodied.
Shared 750ml can. Pale amber, white head. Aroma and taste of malt, bread, and hints of apple. Watery and bland finish; lightly sour. Not pleasant.
Aroma: sour and bready; Appearance: clear amber pour with fluffy white head that dissipates quickly; Taste: follows nose with unpleasant, offtasting finish; Palate: light bodied; Overall: no need to ever drink again.
It’s one of my smash beers and always a challenge to chug one oil can. I love the old commercials from my childhood too but all that does not save it from being a low brow beer. It tastes better than most macros but has a bit of a harsh edge in the grain and just a subtle hop character. Maybe this is why so many people drink the blue can more.
This was quite a foul experience the second time around. Bready malts, almost no hop profile. Some kind of artificial flavor, almost akin to ’grape soda’, or stale perfume...will not drink it again.
Amber thin beer with not a lot going for it. Aroma is off putting, bitter watery taste lingers longer than you might prefer.
25-ounce can in a pint glass. Terrible, but better than Fosters’ lager. Barely.
Can shared at a tasting at the Dancing Camel. Thanks Excellent Little Brother! Clear dark gold with a white head - foamy. Mud, sewer, garbage water aroma, mussy, sewage and a little sweet taste. Light body, vegetal finish.