Crown Golden Ale
Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Southbank, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.20
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Lovely reddish copper with a thin white head. Sweet toasted malt, fruit, earth. Not a lot of flavor. Medium bodied. Decent. Wouldn’t call it a golden.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
I guess this is an attempt to "leverage the brand" as the marketing weasels say. And that the target market is not drinkers of tasty beer but the sort of person who is a consumer of _premium_ premixed Bourbon and cola. So I’m trying this now because if it’s being flogged in Aldi it’s not going heaps well. Bottle. Between gold and amber with a modest white head. Aroma of toast and hard boiled lollies, some lemon.Light bodied, medium to high carbonation is not too fizzy. Clean and (on the plus side) not as dominated by travel sweets as suggested by the aroma, but sadly vacant in the middle. Bitterness is low with some lemon and herbal/ weedy notes. Could be a lot worse.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
(Bottle) Clear copper golden with no head. Aroma is cardboard with toffee hints. Palate is reasonable - light with medium carbonation - refreshing. Taste is thin with hints of toffee malt, slight hints of citrus and some slight and somewhat unpleasant metallic and cabbage bitterness in the finish. Drinkable, but why bother? (I suspected it wasn’t going to be good so I only picked up a single bottle - but at the register I was told that six would only cost twice as much as one - at $1/bottle those extra five are not the greatest purchase I have made, but I’ll be drinking them!)
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
375ml bottle into schooner glass. Small head disappears to no head quickly. Nice golden colour but zero head, zero lacing! Looks like death in a glass BUT doesn’t taste too bad. Not great, a bit malty but the aftertaste is pure CUB, a little bit rubber tyre, a little bit of boiled cabbage. Very hard to recommend
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Pours amber with an almost non-existent head.Nose shows sweet malt with a little caramel and some cardboard notes. Some faint spicy hops too.Flavours are not as interesting, more of the cardboard rather than the caramel. A faint vegetal note too.Somewhat watery body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
From a 375ml bottle on 14/7/2014. Pours an ultra clear deep golden with the barest of heads. The aroma is barely distinguishable from a bad macro lager (eg. Crown), with stale grain the only thing you can detect. The flavour is underwhelming - a touch of sweet malt and more stale grain. If this has hops in it, they’re very well hidden. Has a thinnish body and modest carbonation. I wasn’t expecting much from this but I really expected to be a bit of a step up from Crown Lager, if only because it’s an ale. But I’m not sure it is. I cannot conceive of a golden ale which could match this for blandness. An abysmal attempt at an ale from CUB. Last night it was a Stone’s Arrogant Bastard - tonight a Crown Golden. Talk about going from the penthouse to the outhouse...