Cascade Premium Lager - Cascade Brewery Company Ltd.

zerk

California

3.03/5  rDev +14.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5

An Aussie friend of mine brought this back for me... so that act of beer kindness might slightly cloud my judgment of this one.

Pours a clear gold with almost no head. Aroma is a nice mix of sweet grain and a very light herbal hoppiness. Flavor is very subdued... some sweet malt and grain flavors with a light bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel is light and carbonation is fizzy.

By no means a great beer, but not bad either. An easy drinking beer that would be a decent thrist quencher for a summer day.

Serving type: bottle

02-20-2004 21:46:11 | More by zerk

magpieken

Australia

2.75/5  rDev +3.8%

04-08-2013 16:25:18 | More by magpieken

magnusdave

New York

3/5  rDev +13.2%

02-26-2013 01:52:57 | More by magnusdave

MsNitch

France

1.83/5  rDev -30.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

A: Crystal clear like apple cider, lots of bubbles coming to a pure white, one finger head

S: Grassy, like old wet hay or rotting vegetables. Bubbles tickle the nose and it is served so drastically cold that I really can't smell much beyond the area around me. Does glass smell?

T: Carbonation masks and then coldness freezes, malts are chewy and heavy while flavors are as they smelled: last season compost. There is a definite metallic taste that could be from my glass but other gassy off notes and a sad corn syrup sweetness.

M: Dry, light body

O: In a landscape where American adjunct lagers still reign on high Cascade does a great job of keeping up the pace. It is great if you are looking for a beer that was blindly consumed by the post war crowd. I would say for sure it is "clean, crisp and refreshing." But then so is water.

Serving type: bottle

11-29-2012 15:35:50 | More by MsNitch

pin

Australia

1/5  rDev -62.3%

08-03-2012 04:11:18 | More by pin

no8

Antarctica

2/5  rDev -24.5%

03-06-2012 12:00:09 | More by no8

nate1357

Massachusetts

3/5  rDev +13.2%

03-05-2012 23:54:06 | More by nate1357

BrazilianAussie

Brazil

3/5  rDev +13.2%

02-22-2012 01:07:59 | More by BrazilianAussie

likeemdark

California

2.5/5  rDev -5.7%

01-27-2012 14:52:09 | More by likeemdark

galluch

Ontario (Canada)

3/5  rDev +13.2%

01-17-2012 16:50:06 | More by galluch

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

3.1/5  rDev +17%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

375ml bottle. Tasmania, so literally far away.

This beer pours a hazy medium straw colour, with one finger of off-white whipped cream head, which settles evenly, leaving a decent pock-marked wall of lace around the glass. It smells of mild graininess, and grassy, Heineken-esque skunky hops. The taste is sweet, bready malt, and musky floral, weedy hops. The carbonation is moderate, and a bit airy, the body medium weight, and somewhat smooth. It finishes quite clean, retaining some bready malt and mild bitter grassy hops in equal measure.

If this is indeed an AAL, then kudos, this destroys anything else I've had the misfortune of trying from the style. Sure, there's that green bottle culpable, vaguely skanky odor, but it dissipates soon enough, leaving a decent malty lager, with a tolerably earthy, vegetal dryness. I can't help but see this as a good thing, given how far this bottle has come - a fresh one would likely be a fair bit more roundly agreeable.

Serving type: bottle

05-11-2011 02:10:26 | More by biboergosum

burnheartsMKE

Wisconsin

3.28/5  rDev +23.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Clean, inoffensive and actually pretty refreshing; this beer made for a nice wash-down of sausages after a quick swim in ketchup for this jet-lagged dude.

Recommended? Naw, but if your father-in-law offers you a beer - you are best to accept. And like he said to me after the last time I bought him a beer, "This is a great beer because I didn't have to pay for it".

Serving type: bottle

02-21-2011 11:08:25 | More by burnheartsMKE

bala747

Singapore

3.08/5  rDev +16.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

I had this beer in this tiny little bar in Singapore, and it's my first time trying this beer.

A: Pours a golden yellow colour with a lot of fizz that dissipates rather too quickly for my liking.

S: Pretty unimpressive, typical adjunct smells and some skunkiness, thanks to the green bottle.

T: This is where this beer came to some life. The taste was surprisingly crisp, like drinking a refreshing glass of Perrier water, a very hoppy bitter aftertaste that was actually quite nice. There was some hint of citrus, but adjunct flavours predominated.

M: Dry, crisp mouthfeel

D: I could down a few of these on a hot day, simply because I enjoy crisp, dry beers on a hot day but otherwise nothing really outstanding about this beer.

Overall, a decent macro from Australia's 'oldest brewery' (as the bottle claims). I have had better but for a macro, this is pretty darn good.

Serving type: bottle

06-01-2010 07:42:12 | More by bala747

CrazyDavros

Australia

1.88/5  rDev -29.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

Pours gold with a small sudsy head.
Aroma is faint with grainy malt and subtle grassy hops. Grainy malt is quite dirty really.
Flavours include a fair bit of malt surprisingly, slight grainy, somewhat bready. Faint grassy hops also show, finishing with a restrained bitterness.
Too much carbonation. Much too much. Ridiculous.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2010 12:17:47 | More by CrazyDavros

Buebie

Minnesota

1.15/5  rDev -56.6%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1

Yikes, this beer smells like a mixture of shit and skunk. I can only imagine here, that a skunk shit in my beer!

Poured from a green twist off into a tulip. The head produced is about half an inch of white. Light yellow in color, transparent, and deer god, its sitting about 3 feet away from me and all I can smell is skunk shit.

The taste also resembles poop and skunks. I cant even finish this review, this has never happend to me. This beer is terrible. Drink only before trying to capture a skunk. He might think you are a skunk too. I'm not gonna even make my dog drink this, drainpour.

Serving type: bottle

04-15-2009 19:01:50 | More by Buebie

charlesw

New York

2.4/5  rDev -9.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

What's weird... Is that I popped the cap and got that fresh smell of a bud. Like... Totally. Hopalicious. Um. Not really.

The color is too light. There's no head. It smells "crisp" (like that weird bud bitterness). It tastes "crisp" - doesn't have the adjunct lager sweetness. It's probably OK on a hot day but it doesn't do it for me right now (17c). Bleh.

Serving type: bottle

03-22-2009 10:04:12 | More by charlesw

LittleCreature

Australia

3.25/5  rDev +22.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Appearance - 3.0
Pours half a finger of white head that quickly reduced over a clear straw yellow body.

Smell - 3.0
Not much in the way of aroma, but no off smells. Sweetish with grains and a little corn in the background.

Taste - 3.0
Crisp, dry refreshing and boring. Flavours of grain and husk, hops give little flavour but a pleasant lingering bitterness, finishes cracker dry.

Mouthfeel - 3.5
Fine, persistent carbonation give the beer a nice mouthfeel.

Drinkability - 4.0
Very much a sessionable, easy drinker.

OVERALL - 3.15
A better than average macro lager, nothing special, but a better choice than Heineken or Becks.

Serving type: bottle

02-01-2009 12:51:04 | More by LittleCreature

Macca

Australia

2.6/5  rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

This pours a pale straw/gold colour. What little head there was disappeared very quickly. Clear.

Both the palate and the nose are grains. A touch of hops in there but not enough to make it interesting.

Medium to light bodied.

Just another ok brew.

Serving type: bottle

01-07-2009 10:12:08 | More by Macca

foles

Australia

3.38/5  rDev +27.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

I really like this beer. Its miles ahead of the typical Macros aorund Australia. Its got a bit of flavour, while maintaining that typical Aussie lager character. There is a strange kind of maltiness present, and a slight grassy quality that separates it from the pack. A good acquisition if the price is right. You can easily have a session on these

Serving type: bottle

03-19-2008 13:26:43 | More by foles

wl0307

United Kingdom (England)

2.5/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

BB 10/12/2007, served chilled in a pilsner glass.

A: pours a very pale straw hue, not 100% clear; the thick, white pillowy foam lasts pretty well, on top of rather lively carbonation full of large bubbles.
S: a lively dusty note decorates the sharply sweet lemony body, backed by a light flow of grassy hoppiness, a pretty dense grainy lager maltiness. The smell almost reminds me of a dry German Pilsener, if it is not compromised by the richly sweet edge.
T: really bland... the neutrally flavoured maltiness comes with a lightly sour touch of lemons and dried grass, while the already faint flavour of malts gradually dissipates and yields to a thin-bodied lemon-zesty sour-bitterness and a chewy but semi-chemical finish.
M&D: spritzy and "loose" on the mouthfeel and very thin-bodied, while the flavour is so light that in the end only a watery taste of grainy liquid and rough dry-ness of a lager remain. Not as horrible as Bud, but really it has nothing much to enjoy, either.

Serving type: bottle

10-28-2007 17:40:05 | More by wl0307

jarmby1711

Australia

3.48/5  rDev +31.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

I reviewed this several years ago and have tried many lagers since.
I subsequently have a higher opinion
This was poured into a pint glass,clear golden and sustained head.
The smell is still a little insipid however there was a pronounced sharpish almost Pils like hop character.It is none too sweet and has a distinctive clean mouthfeel.
It is a better drink in a large glass and is a good drink at that

Serving type: bottle

10-07-2007 02:27:20 | More by jarmby1711

rjimlad

Australia

2.28/5  rDev -14%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Poured into standard schoner glass and the head dissipated within 30 seconds. Not much in the way of aroma. Taste is rather uninteresting but hops are well integrated and well balanced. There is a light grainy flavour and I agree with the reviewer who said it was "metallic". The carbonation is highish and the mouthfeel is very sparkly and after a while a bit too much. Drinkability is Ok and is nice on a hot day after some activity. Its an OK beer but boring. Most Australians think its a premium but its a very macro quaffer. I wouldn't buy it but I'd prefer it over any other Oz macro at dinner or after activity.

Serving type: bottle

02-22-2007 08:35:47 | More by rjimlad

Finite

Australia

3.33/5  rDev +25.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

A - Golden / Pale. Ok head, Disipates at a steady rate. Leaves some lacing

S - A Naive friend of a friend once told me cascade was like drinking out of a grass catcher. I found it totaly amusing and still do (more so considering his favorite beer is XXXX). Thats hops my friend. Something this beer always does well to capture. Strong tassie hop aroma.

T - Great fresh flavours is the impression I always get from this brew. Balanced malt and hop flavours make this a great beer. The flavour balance is almost perfect. Where it looses points is that these flavours are very simple and a little on the watery side.

M - Moderate to high carbonisation. Good pairng with the flavours. Again the secret to this beer is its balance of elements. Maybe a little to much but thats personal.

D - Perfect, could gulp this drop down all day but it would get pretty boring after a few. Its a beer that excells at the balance of its elements but doesnt really push anything new and isnt all that flavourfull.

Serving type: bottle

11-29-2006 08:35:45 | More by Finite

JohnfromDublin

Ireland

2.88/5  rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Sampled this bottle on 9th Sept 2006. 5.2%ABV attractively packaged (for a green) bottle with label showing a pair of Tasmanian Devils. On the label, it said "best by: see label". No date to be seen! Twist off cap (discovered after using opener).

Poured a clear pale straw coloured body with a decent white foam. Smelled of grass and slight hops. Tasted okay with a bitter hoppy aftertaste. Reminded me of Greek beer except for this feature.
Mouthfeel: a little syrupy. Drinkability: not the worst, but I found that I tired of it well before finishing.

Serving type: bottle

09-05-2006 08:22:28 | More by JohnfromDublin

vancurly

Australia

3.53/5  rDev +33.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Gold colour, good white head & bubbles.
Lifted grain/flour aroma, subtle metallic notes of the hops.
Crisp Euro lager flavour (which, I believe, is a more appropriate category for this beer). Good Tassie hop flavour, hint of sulfur.
Balance is good; chewy malt up front, which "crisps" nicely, with a nice bitterness bringing it together.
This has always been my restaurant pre-dinner beer of choice. Always a good competition between it and it's main rival, Boag's.

Serving type: bottle

08-16-2006 04:49:16 | More by vancurly