Great Northern Fishing Trip

I went fishing this morning, but it wasn't long before I ran out of bait.
Then I saw a snake with a frog in its mouth. Frogs are good Bass bait.
Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with a frog in its mouth, I grabbed it right behind the head,
took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket.
Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bitten.
So, I grabbed my can of Great Northern, poured a little beer in its mouth.
It rolled it eyes back and went limp, I released the snake into the lake without
incident and continued on fishing, using the frog.
A short while later, I felt a nudge on my foot,
it was that damn snake...... with two more frogs

not being a beer drinker I presume its a non australian beer, very palatable to the taste buds,

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Originally Posted by Tonyz

not being a beer drinker I presume its a non australian beer, very palatable to the taste buds,

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It's a beer made for North Queenslanders Tony, quite a nice drop.
Rgds,
Crocy.

I don't touch the stuff, myself. The only thing I know about beer, is that Draught beer is the only one that shows the manufacturer on the label.

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Originally Posted by Old Croc

It's a beer made for North Queenslanders Tony, quite a nice drop.
Rgds,
Crocy.

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Compared to XXXX, anything is.

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Originally Posted by AlexS

Compared to XXXX, anything is.

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I have to agree there. It's funny how all the iconic Aussie beers, eg, XXXX, VB, Tooheys, West End, Swan, Foster's all taste like washing up water. Sadly I can't drink beer at present but if I could it would be either Carlton Cold or Iron Jack.
Rgds,
Crocy.

You non-beer-drinkers opinions are about as valuable as my opinion of wine would be.
Great Northern is what's in my fridge at the moment as well as a dozen or so Emu Export (bush chooks)
Cheers,
Geoff.

I'm not a beer drinker but rather prefer flavoring ice cubes with a good Irish (NOT Bushmills) whiskey. If I am forced into drinking beer socially, my preference is Coors.

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Those of you who know are thinking, "What? How can he be that effing stupid? Colorado Cool-Aid? He drinks whiskey over ice."

At age 78, I have been drinking some form of alcohol for 74 or 75 years. At age 3 or 4, when the man purported to be my father, (That is another story best left for the public house standing at the rail.) would have beer with dinner I would have a small glass. (3 US fluid ounces) 104 ml. I was never really enthused with beer living in Brooklyn, NY. When I was 16 we moved to Southern California. It was there I discovered Coors. Very light, very smooth and most enjoyable. During my senior (12th) year in high school, my mother would keep Coors in the refrigerator for me and Hamm's for my father.

During our first few months in California, I would do the marketing. (Grocery shopping) At age 16 I was 5 years short of being able legally to buy any form of alcohol, however I figured out how to get around that law. From what I'm told, my method still works today. It doesn't work for spirits but beer is no problem.

Come on! It was a different time then. WW-II had been over only for less then 15 years. Both my parents and my generation of rug rats were trying to figure out the post war life style and economy. In perspective me, growing up in Brooklyn and at age 16, the stupidest thing was owning an automobile. I mean first you had to have a place to park it. And then why? There were buses, cabs and subway. It was a different time. Contrast that with today's teens.

There seem to be any number of good boutique beers around now, in any corner of the world - USA, GB, Australia, Canada etc. A good policy is to go into a bar and ask a local what local beer he (or she) would recommend. Not only will you find a good beer, but you meet interesting people. Aside from boutique beers, my favourite Australian beers are Coopers Pale Ale and James Squire 150 Lashes. James Squire was my Great^4 Grandfather, and I'm trying to buy the brewery back, one slab at a time.

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Originally Posted by rrich

I'm not a beer drinker but rather prefer flavoring ice cubes with a good Irish (NOT Bushmills) whiskey. If I am forced into drinking beer socially, my preference is Coors.

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Those of you who know are thinking, "What? How can he be that effing stupid? Colorado Cool-Aid?

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Ok Rich, seeing you chimed in I will have to reply. I have spent over one year of my life travelling or living in the US, but Coors? Nuh it's not that bad.
I have over that 34 years tried every beer I could, even brought home most of the empty cans, they are my memories. But, no doubt someone will attack me but my favourite is Budweiser in cans bought from a Liquor store, not the gas station or Supermarket. I have toured the Coors Brewery in Golden and the Bud Brewery in St Louis MO. I am just hoping that they get this China bug under control so I can come back over.
Rgds,
Crocy.

Crocy,
Ah but Budweiser depends upon which brewery and how fresh. The brewery in New Hampshire was horrid. Now closed as it isn't on the list. We toured the Busch Gardens in Los Angeles. The beer was fresh and really good. But all that was in the mid 1970s.

Living near Columbus, Ohio and working for a stodgy extreme temperance phone company that did fire people for having the 3 martini lunch, several of us used the corporate jet to bring Coors up from Kansas City to Columbus. That was when Coors was "Not distributed east of the Mississippi river." by intent. There were 6 or 8 corporate guys commuting from Kansas City to the Columbus area. They became the beer runners. Typically they would use fiber glass tape to tape two flats, 24 cans each, to each other with a tape handle. Sometimes the corporate guys were bringing two taped or 96 cans as baggage. The pilot finally said no more beer when the baggage compartment was filled with 20 flats (cases) of Coors. The pilot's concern was the weight. In those days, every time I was west of the Mississippi River I would bring a couple of flats back with me.

Just about that time I left the company and moved to Pittsburgh. On one of my trips from Dallas, company headquarters, I had checked beer as baggage. I was at the baggage carousel collecting my beer when two ramp rats appear. They told me that they followed the beer on the conveyer system hoping a can or two would fall off. I wound up giving them a six pack with instructions to share.

There is one thing about Coors that most others don't do. It is brewed, chilled and packaged. The beer stays chilled until it is purchased. If you let it get warm it goes off.

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Originally Posted by rrich

Crocy,
Ah but Budweiser depends upon which brewery and how fresh.

There is one thing about Coors that most others don't do. It is brewed, chilled and packaged. The beer stays chilled until it is purchased. If you let it get warm it goes off.

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That's interesting Rich, I remember being told at the Bud Brewery that All beer made in the US has no preservative and must be stored and transported cold. Down Under, it's full of preservative and you buy a s!ab anywhere at room temperature and where I live that can be quite warm.
Rgds,
Crocy.

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Originally Posted by Tonyz

not being a beer drinker I presume its a non australian beer, very palatable to the taste buds,

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I'm surprised you didn't see the Great Northern ads that were highly amusing for people in your "neck of the woods". It went on about Coffin Bay being famous for it's oysters as much as for it's Black Marlin!!!!! "The beer for up here".
For those not familiar with the map, Marlin is caught in Northern Australia - Coffin Bay is in the Eyre Peninsular / West Coast region of South Australia, about as far from Marlin waters as you can get.

I'm a Guinness drinker myself but I remember my first trip to Oz (Melbourne).
I was in a bar - well, a betting shop with beer pumps really - and asked the barman what beer they had (meaning the brand).
He pointed to the two taps on the bar top and said "This one's dark, this one's pale. Which do you want?"
:U
Pete

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Originally Posted by Crunchie

I'm surprised you didn't see the Great Northern ads that were highly amusing for people in your "neck of the woods". It went on about Coffin Bay being famous for it's oysters as much as for it's Black Marlin!!!!! "The beer for up here".
For those not familiar with the map, Marlin is caught in Northern Australia - Coffin Bay is in the Eyre Peninsular / West Coast region of South Australia, about as far from Marlin waters as you can get.

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as i mentioned earlier I cannot drink beer, long story age12 years crash off me pedal bike outside a pub, a noble gentleman ? rolls out the door trips over me and then vomits all his weekly earning over me. Have not been able to touch a glass in all of 55 years, wine though HMMMM

and can get my oysters free plus dont watch telly. strange little bugga I am.