[on tap at Chronicles, Reading] A bit of history this - Fosters was the first beer I ever bought in a pub, at the tender age of 15. I drank this for about a year, before swiftly moving through cider and onto bitter and real ale. Now, 18 years later I was forced into trying it again through being in a pub with no other beers that I hadn’t already rated. It pours a pale yet dirty gold, with a moderate lasting head. The smell is vaguely stale, even though from the taste it clearly wasn’t. Tastes of corn and cardboard, with slight hints of citrus, malt and some wheat dust. But these really are hints - the overall impression is of fizzy water. It is one of the sweeter lagers - which explains how I was able to get into it easily as a teenager. And as a definite plus, there’s none of the metal in the aftertaste which characterises so many keg beers. Overall, it’s very bland, but easy to drink, and there’s nothing actually unpleasant about it to make you ditch it - but then there’s nothing to make you buy another pint either! There are far worse pale lagers out there...

Canned(500ml). -Had this before few years and unfortunately a week before in London. Watery and bready aroma with notes of metal and just tiny hint of hops int the finish. Easy drinkable but bad.

Weak lager. Yellowish colour with little aroma. Watery tasting with an unpleasant chemical aftertaste. A serious contender for my least favourite beer.

Australia Day today - so time to lift a glass to concede that they know how to play cricket! Unfortunately, this is the only "Australian" beer available in the average English pub (in my case at The Cannie Man, Bracknell).
An attractive golden amber colour is about the only good thing to say about it, otherwise it’s bland, bland, bland - probably some malt and hops in there but it’s difficult to find them. Aftertaste reminds me of an artifical sweetner.

On draught at The Queens - Upton Pk London E13. A pub with very limited selection gave me an excuse for rating this.

Can and tap. Clear golden in colour. Hoppy and malty in aroma. Sweet and hoppy, quite watery.

Can
Typical golden lager color and small foamy whte head. Weak fruity aroma. Quite pleasant but thin palate - sweet, bubblegum, malt. Not the worst of megabrew lagers because lacks any artifical side flavors. (4/2/5/3/8 2.2)
Re-rated, alc. 4.5% - brewed in Finland,. can (BB 05/2006)
Pale golden color, decent white head, lively carbonation. Sweet malty, corn aroma. Malty, slightly harsh finish. Malty aftertaste. Not so fruity than UK version I sampled before, maybe flavor is tuned to "Finnish taste". (3/2/4/2/7 1.8)