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Carlton & United BreweriesFoster's LagerABV 5% • Vol 355 ml • bottle • Australia • Cheap • Flavour 6.5
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This beer is my favorite among the group of mass produced lagers. It pours with a dense creamy head with a fruity, slightly hoppy aroma. Moderatly light-bodied and crisp. Hop flavors make an impression throughout the finish. This beer is at its best when served from draft. Very refreshing. Review submitted by: Rosco |
Review updated 07 April 2002
Fosters rates in my top 10 list of beers. A very refreshing after taste and great from tap or bottle.
Timothy Iaconis
A top beer specifically aimed at those drinking at connoiseur level. The kind that you can just drink and drink. A smooth honey like taste. Taste the NECTAR. A beer that you will dream about. Rest assured.
Catherine Brown
Horse piss!!
Good Looking Rooster
An Aussie urinates in a cup and gives it to you. You buy it because of amusing adverts. Or you are given it at a party in a "tinnie." Mi'Rooster t'is Horse Piss, Aussie horse piss! hey Skip lets con the stupid pommies, heh heh!
Patrick Gray
Good one 'Good Looking Rooster'. You sound like a top bloke who knows heaps about beer. Here, have a Budwiser, you'll look good with it...
kayne begbie
Fosters is absolute shit. Catherine Brown, get a clue. If your idea of nectar is foul tasting cat piss then fosters is the drink for you. I cant believe That there are people who are so uninformed. Shame Shame Shame.
PS, I bet you're single and very ugly.
Vic Cilla
Has the world gone mad. Timothy, you're more wrong than you can possibly imagine. Catherine you're actually completely mad. Kayne, you're a comic genius. Vic Patrick and the Rooster, thank you for talking some sense. It is a difficult toss-up whether Fosters is more accurately described as tasting of nothing or tasting of piss. On balance, I think the latter. Not liking bitter myself (I know, a tragedy and my loss), I have resorted to it before now, but if there's anything else available, TAKE IT! Oh and, as ever, don't go within 50yds of the cans. I shudder at the thought.
C. Nairne
Foster's was first brewed in the Antipodes by a fellow from New York who promptly sold his business and moved back to the U.S. as soon as he could afford to. He hasn't done us or the Australians any favors.
Is it a coincidence that this stuff comes in a can that looks as if it should contain motor oil and indeed TASTES as if it had come out of a can that had recently contained motor oil? As truly undrinkable as any cheap American beer I've ever had.
Hopalong
This beer is a foul abomination, its taste can only be described as a cross between piss and jism.
Available at the Hare & Hounds, Timperley, Cheshire. Thank You
Glen Rothwell
I personally don't like Fosters, but I am however shocked at the amount of people that have actually tasted: horse piss, cat piss, human piss and jism... For a decent Australian beer, try a Carlton Cold or a Cascade Premium... Much better than 'piss' I'm sure...
Jacko
A boring beer for boring people - the Les Dennis of lagers.
Steve - Newbury Berks
THE aussie beer that it is drunk all over the world? Then why does nobody back here in Australia drink it? Fact. It rates as one of the worst beers that we make. For one of our best try Coopers Sparkling or Pale Ales or a cracker from Fremantle called Little Creatures Pale Ale (if you can find it)
Alex
Having drunk 17 pints of Fosters before City's first home game last season I found I could hardly see. Swelling with pride I marched into the road and was clipped by an oncoming 370 (could have been a 371). I can only assume that your lager is of poor quality and will be back in the Hare as soon as I am out of plaster.
Pete Berserker Brailsford
Foster gives me the shits
alf hale
True, but these clearly don't have the same marketing budgets in Britain! The only Aussie beer other than F*****'s (oh, and 4x - ahem) i've ever tried is Carlton Gold, which I agree is superb.
C. Nairne
give me a free one
kyle
The more of these reviews I read the more concerned I get. Fosters is a truly foul beer with so very little taste, and what taste it has is metalic and certainly not the taste of good beer. Yet you give it a score of 6.5! Fuller's 1845 - arguably the best bottled beer in the world (and certainly one that has won many prizes - unlike Fosters) only scores in your reviewer's estimation a modest 7.5. May I suggest that you need to devise a more objective scoring system (any competent test-writer - and I guess there must be few such in Oxford - would be able to devise a tasting scorecard that will remove much of the subjectivity from your tastings). As it is I suspect that the scores given are just plucked arbitrarily from the air and will depend very much on the snap (and not even comparitive) judgement of the reviewer at that particular time.
Richard English
Spare me the snobbery on what a good beer is. The score is based on my personal preferance. I just happened to be the first to write about it. This is a web page, if you really are a competant beer taster, then publish your opinions in a book.
Rosco Metz
A "why, oh why?" lager.
Martin Brady
6.5! Its a cultural taboo back in Australia to drink fosters! And for good damn reason, its shit. The only people who buy it are silly poms who are all sentimental about Australia.
Michael
Has anyone had Fosters Ice, have an assignment on it and trying to get as many opinions an info on it as I can.
Lara
Fosters - the "Bud" of Australia. Calling it cat pee is an insult to cats.
Simon
Quote, "...This is a web page, if you really are a competent beer taster, then publish your opinions in a book..."
So is your implication, then, that anything published on the Web can be inaccurate drivel whereas something published in a paper book must necessarily be gospel?
I think not.
And I reject the suggestion that appreciation of good beer is "snobbish" any more than lack of appreciation proves "good solid working class worth". Knowledge and appreciation is a reflection on the ability to judge; competent reviews are a reflection on the ability to write. "Class" has nothing to do with the matter.
Richard English
I never said "class". I have no "implications". You are not qualified to determine the best way for me to taste and judge you stupid liberal. Also to add: I no longer drink Fosters. I'm sick of it.
Rosco Metz
Oh, hello. Implications where there were inferences, semi-colons and colons! Somebody's not drinking their lagers! I didn't know the damage caused by Fosters was reversible.
Neil
Fosters.... AUSSIEPISS... Grab a Speights.. and the English don't drink it cos they're sentimental to Australia. P.S Remember 17-20 in sydney 22nd November 2003 WHAT A LAUGH WE ALL HAD HERE
SUPER KIWI
OK Foster's hasn't this sort of literal debate since crocodile dundee. To settle it, Fosters is shit, but it's got alcohol in it doesn't it? Anyway, their marketing department is where it all happens. By making their tap beer only %4, people have to drink more of their product to get pissed. Brilliance. Fosters could sell shoes to legless iraqi mine victim!!!
Anyway on the topic of good aussie beer, Little creatures and failing that, coopers pale ale.
Skippy the bush kangaroo
Hang on, What was the score in the semis kiwi????????? When was the last time you won a world cup?
George Gregan
makes you feel like shit the next day
Colin
Am amazed this got some positive feedback from some reviewers. Tastes like p**s to me. Kind of beer you'd give to someone you hate.
Frank Bigley
Nowt wrong with Fosters... just a pretty average lager... fine for an average night out at an average pub!
Diamond Geezer Dan
Abso-bloody-lutely awful. Fosters is, like Carling, Carlsberg, Heineken, Stella etc, disgusting. They all taste the same.
If you like it, you're obviously no connoisseur.
Vile.
Terry Casablanca
Terryy, i agree entirely. There are no good lagers available in british pubs (im a real ale drinker myself) however, some of the finest lagers in the world are brewed in belgium, and for a good lager, go there. Hoegarden, grand cru and forbiden fruit are excellent beers. Strong, hoppy, and cloudy, but dont let that put you off drinkin them. If you like lager, then thats the place to go. Some are up to 11% vol!!!!
matt
Maybe someone switched cans on Good Looking Rooster and gave him a tinny of the new Thai Beer 'Archa' (Translation "Horse") beer. Mind you at 19 Baht/can (0.26 UKPounds) here in Land Of Smiles there are a lot more expensive ways to get a hang-over
pandora
Matt, you're going a bit far in stating that there are no good lagers available in British pubs. Budvar is a classic and is widely available. Pilsner Urquell likewise, though less easily found. Increasing numbers of British pubs are stocking good German lagers (I recently had Eittinger Hell, Eittinger Spezial and Tegernseer Hell in Quinn's, Camden Town, for example). You describe the various Hoegaarden beers as lagers but they are actually wheat beers and ales, not lagers. Belgium has excellent ales and wheat beers but relatively poor lagers (Stella, Maes and Jupiler are very widely available but are poor lagers). The best lagers are to be found in Germany and the Czech Republic. As for Fosters, this is the kind of cheaply made, mass-produced, hurriedly-brewed, bland rubbish that gives lager a bad name. Australia has much better to offer than this.
Mike Griffin
Fosters Lager is a truely complex beer. It is rather closed on opening, it evolves an impressive bouquet after breathing. There's a savoury,
tarry, italianate nebbiolo thing going on, along with earthy regional hints and a slightly floral, musky touch. Dark cherry and berry fruit mark the silky palate, and it has real complexity, lovely texture and length. It finishes with a good measure of ripe, grainy overtones with an inkling of brown cucky. Well done CUB!
[Thanks, Rod - we haven't laughed so much in ages! -Ed]
Rod Marshall
Heeheheeehe!! I used to be a fan of Ali G, but the guys on this website who try to push this "beer" are much better for comedy!
For God's sake, if you like it because of some tradition, or because you love the adverts, that's fine, but please! don't try to say this is a quality stuff!
Juraj
I truely detest this lager, undrinkable, almost as bad as carling.
Joe
Is it possible to get a 5ltr can of Fosters with a tap for pouring.
ian cook
Quote "...I never said "class". I have no "implications". You are not qualified to determine the best way for me to taste and judge you stupid liberal. Also to add: I no longer drink Fosters. I'm sick of it.
Rosco Metz..."
Intresting, is it not, that this reviewer has now so completely changed his mind about Foster's. I have commented previously about the subjectivity of some of these submitted reviews and I feel that Mr Metz's review and subsequent outbursts have reinforced my point.
Incidentally, isn't it interesting that, in the USA (which is where I assume that Mr Metz comes from, the term "Liberal" is now considered a deadly insult. Whereas in reality a liberal thinker is one who is prepared to give thought and credance to others' opinions.
Richard English
Quote "...Is it possible to get a 5ltr can of Fosters with a tap for pouring..."
Indeed it is. I have one in my house. I call it the "lavatory cistern".
Richard English
Hehehe, nice one, Richard, nice...
Juraj
In Aus, we find Fosters shit. In England and everywhere else, they love the stuff. I'm told this is because the stuff they sell everywhere else isn't brewed at the same place as in Aus, and Im inclined to believe that.
MikeM
This beer is absolute shit. I am no beer connoisseur, but i know that Foster's is perhaps on-par with Bud Light and all of the other repulsive American Light beers.
Bass Man
Vile as vile can be.
Brian Lion
Bloody hell,why get so excited about it? It really is a nothing lager. A beer for the uncaring masses it cannot be as bad as stated as it does not taste of anything apart from the vessel it happens to be served in. Which sadly can be better than the often vinegared crap stale ales served around my neck of the woods.
real ale lover bad beer hater Dave P.
There is no basis on which to compare Fosters from australia to that from the UK, and that from the rest of the world for that matter. For the australian and 'rest of world' market, this beer is produced in QLD, Australia, and the export fosters for the rest of world is different. In England - they brew their own fosters which is different again, as Fosters australia sold them the rights to the european market some years ago.
CUB insider
Fosters tastes like the piss of a dehydrated cat
Bollox to Oz
A horrendous beer. The worst beer of the mass-market, mass-produced family. You can almost taste the hangover while you drink it. Cheap and nasty piss water.
Jesus Jones
This beer lacks character and body. I was completely unable to pick out any malty flavours and the hops are almost non-existant! I am a real ale man so most lagers taste insipid to me, but I know a good one when I have one, and Foster's aint. It tastes of nothing, like straw coloured fizzy water. The carbonation and extreme chilling of this beer is obviously an attempt by the brewery to mask the complete lack of flavour and try to give this beer the life it lacks. Avoid at all costs, and choose a continental or czech lager, or a pint of decent ale.
Matt
Oh Dear. (Shakes Head in disgust) Pound a pint/50 pence a bottle student garbage and nothing else. If this was the only beer in the bar, I'd go on to the spirits!
Rob on the Merrie City Boys Run
i dont know about conisoaring, i just drink to get drunk. and fosters ice is a perfecly good drink. Nout wrong with it
Regular drinker
Quote "...i dont know about conisoaring, i just drink to get drunk. and fosters ice is a perfecly good drink. Nout wrong with it..."
I see that it's not just Budweiser that has the ability to remove from its drinkers the ability to write properly.
Richard English
My friend takes this beer to summer camping events because it tastes the same warm as it does cold - says it all, really!
Froglet
Sad to say but this drink is not just loved by the masses but the so called elite likely to be running the country in future.Here at my college bar (not named for shame) part of the esteemed Cambridge University- Fosters and Carlsberg are the favourites while us poor ale drinkers are consigned to one ale if we're lucky. Tragic but true. So much for intelligence..it clearly doesn't extend to all areas of life.
cerbace
The worst thing is the Aussies cussing Fosters. The stuff they get over there is infinitely better than the shit they brew in the UK
burp
Quote "...The worst thing is the Aussies cussing Fosters. The stuff they get over there is infinitely better than the shit they brew in the UK..."
It's still pretty dire, though. Coopers is streets ahead.
Richard English
is this actually beer? i am not a huge fan of lager but this has to be one of the worst beers i have ever tasted, it is an insult to my taste buds! people who only drink commercial lagers should get an education in real beer with flavour, you may just suprise yourself, ale is not just for old men with beards you know!
lager is crap
Sadly many of the younger generation have closed minds. A closed mind is like a closed bottle - you need to open it to get anything worthwhile out.
Richard English
Some people here clearly do not know what they are talking about - Fosters is the drink of CHAMPIONS!! Never before and never again will a beverage be invented with this God-like level of perfection designed for the connoisseur. Many a time have I been in a drinking establishment and observed the jealous looks of impoverished individuals who look on as I savour every mouthful. In closing : Fosters – the drink of CHAMPIONS!!
The Total Package
When the only other options are Caffreys or John Smith Extra Smooth I will actually drink Fosters. Can't say I enjoy it though. Spitfire for me(which contains no spit)!
MuumiMart
Quote "...Fosters is the drink of CHAMPIONS!!..."
Certainly it would appear to be the drink of at least one champion B*llsh*tt*r, if this posting is anything to go by!
I prefer to believe the reasoned contributions of the likes of Matt.
Richard English
Quote "...When the only other options are Caffreys or John Smith Extra Smooth I will actually drink Fosters. Can't say I enjoy it though. Spitfire for me (which contains no spit)!..."
Were I to be faced with the same dilemma I'd go to another pub!
Richard English
Watch your language Mr English! You clearly are bereft of quality-beverage knowledge. If Tiger Woods walked into a bar and ordered a pint, it would be Fosters. Michael Schumacher? Fosters. Why? – they are CHAMPIONS! If Ten Henman strolled into a drinking establishment seeking a beverage he would probably choose some elitist real-ale muck that you probably cherish. Fosters IS the drink of CHAMPIONS, billions can’t be wrong!!!!
Lex Luger
The bartender in Cains wouldn't even sell it to me. I only was going to drink one to appease my buddies back in the states. This stuff is horrible!
Mr tom
Quote, "...Watch your language Mr English! You clearly are bereft of quality-beverage knowledge. If Tiger Woods walked into a bar and ordered a pint, it would be Fosters. Michael Schumacher? Fosters. Why? – they are CHAMPIONS!.."
If what you say is true, then it proves absolutely nothing except that they have no taste for good beer. And as for you, Lex Luger, would you care to shae with use your own qualifications for commenting on beer? No? I thought not.
Richard English
Perhaps Mr English would care to SHARE (note spelling) with US (note spelling) where he was educated so I can avoid sending my kids there!
That aside, the kind people at Fosters have seen fit to unleash a new lemon-flavoured beverage to the delight of everyone. Far too kind! A perfect beverage for the connoisseur who is in a hurry and does not have the time to sit down and savour a pint of the Drink of Champions.
The Narcissist
I apologise for my typographical errors which I spotted as soon as my posting appeared. Unfortunately there seems to be neither an edit nor a preview feature on this board so there was nothing I could do about them.
And I was educated at Reigate Grammar School, where I did learn about spelling, grammar and syntax - skills sadly lacking amongst some of the chemical-fizz fraternity who post here.
If Fosters are calling their foul concoction "The drink of Champions" I hate to think what quality would be any drink they designated as "The drink of losers".
Richard English
Mr English, it seems you have un-necessary hatred for a lovely beer described so wonderfully by The Total Package as "The drink of champions". As for your spelling game, it is alittle loose, but then again you did attend the "School for jobbers" Reigate.
Fosters forever.
Bushwacker Luke
Yo, I gotta agree with Luger and the Package - I just LOVE the Fosters and wouldn't settle for anything else in a bar. Billions can't be wrong is SOOOO true. Stay trill!
Phat Leonard
Look we only ever drink when we're trying not to get drunk - and it's cheap. It's nothing special at all, tastes like Tesco's own!
Lizzie
Quote "...Yo, I gotta agree with Luger and the Package - I just LOVE the Fosters and wouldn't settle for anything else in a bar. Billions can't be wrong is SOOOO true. Stay trill!..."
Firstly billions of people (I doubt that billions of people drink any brand of beer but let that pass) can be, and frequently are, wrong.
Now, Phat Leaonard, you say you "...wouldn't settle for anything else in a bar..." Your choice, of course - but you have shown your own ignorance about beer by your own hand. If all you ever drink is Fosters chemical rubbish, how can you know about proper beer? Answer, you know little or nothing about beer.
And Bushwacker Luke - what is unnecessary about my hatred for Fosters and its ilk? Were it not for those, like me, who evangelise about the cause of real beer then the whole world would be able to drink nothing but Fosters and similar mediocre drinks. We very nearly lost our wonderful beers in the 1970s, thanks to those who, like you, fell for the blandishments of the mega-breweries and it was due solely to CAMRA that it didn't happen.
I will continue to drink and to evangelise about the cause of fine beers - and you can continue to assault your taste buds with Fosters chemical fizz - "The drink of the uncaring". You will, I hope, eventually mature.
Richard English
Quote "...Look we only ever drink when we're trying not to get drunk - and it's cheap. It's nothing special at all, tastes like Tesco's own!..."
Lizzie, if you want to drink a low gravity beer to avoid getting drunk then why choose Fosters? It is a 5% brew, which is considerably stronger than most cask ales. It is also far more expensive than most cask ales.
There are some wonderful milds around that are only 3% and which cost around a pound a pint less than Fosters. Why not step outside your self-imposed comfort zone and try a few?
Let me know whereabouts you live and I'll be happy to make some local recommendations.
Richard English
Richard is speaking the truth about Foster's. It is a high adjunct, tasteless, characterless and bland beer if ever I have tasted one (and don't get me started on Toohey's Extra Dry!)
I stand by my original comment saying Foster's is horse piss and I should be apologising to all horse piss drinkers out there for associating your beverage of choice with Foster's.
Good Looking Rooster
You all realise by saying fosters is horse piss etc. etc. that you are insulting english brewers, Australia neither brews nor has any share of ownership of fosters in the uk. fosters in the UK is as english as a pork pie and as Aussie as a white christmas. Stop associating fosters with australia.
know what is what
There are plenty of rubbish English brewers as there are plenty of Australian rubbish brewers. Fosters is a rubbish brew, whether it is brewed in the UK or in Australia (as is is).
Richard English
As far as I know it's only brewed in the UK and Canada. I just can't understand those who by pass a row of cracking good beers and ask for Fosters. And some even ask for extra cold.......but then some people just have no judgement.
Peter
Carlton United Breweries is an Australian company and I have certainly seen Fosters on sale in Australia. Of course, like most chemical fizz, it is also manufactured in other places, including the UK. It's pretty foul wherever you encounter it.
Richard English
aussie dishwater
Richard P Lancing
In my opinion this is the worst beer i've ever tried. It only took one pint.
David, Guildford
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