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Pours a clear pale golden colour with a medium head. Lots of carbonation visible.
First sip: A mix of sweet and grainy malts, with a very mild hops bitterness that seems to wash away quickly. No real after-taste. Medium to thin mouth feel, with medium carbonation on the tongue.
To be fair, this isn't the usual Fosters Lager. Apparently Carlton United went back to the original Fosters recipe of 1888 to produce this. They should never have left it, because Classic Lager is better than Fosters Lager. Better, in the way a poke in the eye with a blunt stick is better than a poke in the eye with a slightly sharper blunt stick. So let's say something positive about this beer:
It's ... a beer. And I will finish the glass instead of pouring it down the sink.
And...
...
No, that's about it.
Fosters Classic Lager
Carlton United Brewery
4% alc/vol
330ml bottle.
Same again, sir? No.
When it was first introduced here, the TV ads featured a voice-over from a man with a fairly thick Strine accent, saying, "Foster's... Australian for beeah!" Very soon those of us in the know corrected that to "Foster's... Australian for pisswater!" :-D
I grew rather fond of Bundaburg Rum while I was visiting Australia. Pity they don't export any to the US.
But meanwhile I've discovered Crabbie's Brewed Ginger Beer, from Scotland. It's fermented from sugarcane juice with lots of natural ginger. Very low alcohol content (4.8%), but astonishingly tasty, and good with all kinds of food. And one of the places that serves it is a pub called The Thirsty Koala, which is owned and run by an Australian. The food is a modern take on Aussie delights (meat pies, prawns, lamb and beef, pavlova, etc.), plus various real beers and interesting drinks - and the place is close to where my son and his wife live. So we go there with them, and I order Crabbie's with my dinner :-D
You're a braver bat than I Den :)
Edited at 2016-10-04 03:31 am (UTC)
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