Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught

 

Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Southbank, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺

  Lager - Premium Regular
Score
4.45
ABV: 4.6% IBU: 22 Ticks: 34
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.
 

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4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

375ml bottle. Clear, orange, dark golden colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Weak, grainy and slightly strawy, pale malty aroma, leafy hoppy overtones with a touch of tea, minimalyl doughy, yeasty overtones as well. Taste is slightly grainy-bready and minimally spicy malty with some residual sweetness, minimally piney and leafy hoppy, hints of tea, a touch brown bread crust, an even weaker touch of forest honey.
Watery texture, smooth, simultaneously minimally dry palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation.
Clean, light, drinkable - not too bad.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2025 at 21:42


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Tap, Town Hall Hotel. Clear amber with an eerily lasting white head. Gentle sweet grainy aroma. Thin and sweet with light weedy bitterness that’s about enough when very cold.

Tried on 23 Aug 2025 at 12:38


3.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle at Duke of Oz, Leiden: Golden clear brew with slightly bitter taste thats have some annoying sweetness.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:37


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

375ml bottle from Beers of Europe: BB 28th November 2021. Drank in my back garden on 29th August 2021. Clear golden pour, white head. Grainy and OK for swilling beer, a few hops in there too.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2021 at 07:41


4

Tried from Can on 27 Nov 2019 at 23:39


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

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.

Tried from Can on 26 Jan 2019 at 21:23


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

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.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2018 at 06:25


3.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Bottle, thanks Riba! Dull golden body, fleeting white head. Corny, dusty aroma. Soft rubbery corny/dusty taste, perfumey, mild bitterish touch. Meh.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2018 at 15:54


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Bottle, during a holiday in Australia. Backlog rating from my bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. Tasting notes not kept, just rating.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2017 at 11:23


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

On tap. Pours gold. Lots of sharp vinegar acidity, little sweet syrup, not much of anything else. It's pretty bad.

Tried from Draft on 11 Sep 2017 at 06:28