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I voted "never touch it". Only because there was no option for "I would drink XXXX before I would drink that bat's p!ss."
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Let 'em know: http://smh.com.au/polls/business/form.html
I voted "never touch it". Only because there was no option for "I would drink XXXX before I would drink that bat's p!ss."
Cooper's Pale and Sparkling ales for me
I'm getting more choosy as I get older and grumpier.
I've never liked Fosters. If I'm really thirsty and just want a coldie, I drink VB.
If I'm feeling contemplative and philosophical and want a long slow beer, I drink any of the following (in no particular order):-
Little Creatures Pale Ale
James Squire IPA
Cascade Premium
and a lot of other good beers that I don't have time to list now because I've got to do some work :(
Col
You guys should all try Pilsner Urquell. Its a Czech beer from Pils (Doh - where they invented Pilsner). It came second (after Coopers black) in last years beer awards.
I used to like VB a bit, but now it gets shoved down your throat at every Rugby or Cricket match and many other social events. I now automatically associate it with 20 minute queues for the dunny and bars/food. CUB must be good marketers and price well.
PU may still be on special @ $43 a slab. Give it a try. Recommend a single malt chaser.
Fosters is OK in Oz, but beware drinking it overseas. They brew it locally, you wouldn't pick it - apart from the label. Tried it in Ireland once, bat's urine would be kind.
Yes, well just make sure you all go and vote in that poll. We need to let them know that their product is crap!!!
A couple of years ago in the UK a bar maid picked I was an Aussi and asked if I wanted a fosters which they had on tap. I carefully explained to her that the reason we exported it to the uk was to sell it to poms as no one in their right mind drank it in Australia.
To me it ranks with emu bitter, xxxx and southwark ( possible delibrate spelling mistake ) As the beers to ovoid .
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Russell
Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!
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Originally Posted by silentC
.............. may the Lord make us truly thankfulQuote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
Well, you can kiss my asre because I never sit in my beer! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
Come on give us a kiss kiss kiss kissQuote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
i once drank fosters afterwards i didn't know which end to put over the toilet never again i drink boag premium at the moment
Ya cant beat my home brew, its the best there is.
Southwark??? isnt that a drain cleaner or something?
[QUOTE=doug the slug]Ya cant beat my home brew, its the best there is.
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Burnett Head Bitter?????
That's the carp they used to transport over to melbourne every year when we had our once traditional Xmas beer strike. That stuff really is dog's pi55!Quote:
Originally Posted by doug the slug
I have to agree that it's a fine beer and up there with my favorites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bodgy
At the mo however, my favorite beer is Grolsch.
Fosters, as Darren so rightly says, is p!ss and if they don't have that option I ain't voting. ;)
Incidently, I reckon that Carlton Crown is just Fosters in a fancy brown bottle.
It used to be a good beer before it was bought out by CUB.
Not anymore though.
OK, well if we're aiming for the sky, Hoegarten is a good drop (need some of those funny dots over the o). But if you want to feel like you head's been kicked in, get over to the Nelson and grab a pint or seven of Nelson's Blood. Aaaargh!!! Three Sheets is not bad, but it's only about 6.5% :eek:
The managers on a project I worked on once thought Crownies were top shelf, so they used to order one case of Crownies, two of VB, some light crap and a carton of Old. All the lads would dive on the crownies with glee and scoff them so no-one else could have them. I was happy because it diverted their attention from the real beer, the Tooheys Black!!
Ah yes, now we're talking beer. It tastes so nice because it's an ale not a lager. My favourite beer in the world is the San Miguel from the Manilla brewery, officially rated as one of the best 3 beers in the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
I am not fussy. You beers all taste the same to me. :D
That'll set AA back twenty years.Quote:
Originally Posted by midge
James Squire Pilsner is the best beer in Australia.
Also, like most other from Malt Shovel, Coopers Sparkling, Little Creatures (so bitter, yum), 500ml bottles of Grolsch, Beck (good for headaches too) and lots of others too.
Well speaking of strong beers....
Years ago when I was young and stupid (as opposed to being old and stupid :rolleyes: ) I used to have a taste for Carlsberg Elephant Beer. 7.5% or soemthing :eek:
Way too strong for me nowadays. :rolleyes:
Too right, it's deadly. Many moons ago I was SE Asia GM for a Danish construction company. The boss always drank Carlsberg when he visited, and one day he slipped me Elephant and laughed his head off when I got legless. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by craigb
Most high alcohol beers are too sweet for my liking. Chimay the Belgian beer is 9% and far too sweet. The brewers have to add lots of sugar to the wort so all them yeasties can eat it and poo out lots of alcohol and burp lots of Co2
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one day he slipped me Elephant
I used to work with a guy whose party trick was "the white elephant". He used to turn his pockets inside out, unzip his fly, and hang it out.
What was his name, Sluggo? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
No, we used to call him Dumbo ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Termite
I'm surprised nobody has mention Swan Light (0.9% wasn't it?) :eek:
Fosters - ugh.
Stienlager...now there's a beer. Any of the Montieths are worth a go, esp. 'Black'. Cascade Pale Ale. Hahn Witbeer. Wiessbeir. Redback. James Squire Porter. Guinness anytime. Boags 'Seasons' range. Ahhhhh, beer.
Gentlemen Please!!!!!! :confused:
There are no bad beers it's just some are better than others ;)
And frankly I'd drink it out of a sweaty arab camel drivers jockstrap if'n I was thirsty enough :eek: :D :D :D
Let all be honest, there's no bad beer it's just that some is better than others. Just like when there's no refrigeration, if you don't have to blow the steam off it, then its cold enough. :D
OK, I confess, my first beer was a warm Fosters. I pinched one from my Uncle and hid it in the shed. I also drank KB once. You have to experiment when you're young :rolleyes:
KB = Kid's Beer. You drank it at the right time. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
I'll have to agree with the concensus, never touch Fosters...who does actually drink the stuff?!
Many years ago when I was leaving WA and moving east, Adelaide being first port of call, my dad pulled me aside and cautioned me about always carrying a big stick into the pubs there. Jeez, I thought, must be a rough place, a bit like Fremantle was! No he replied, that's to poke the Southwark down with!!:D
Coopers sparkling or Cascade are my preferred, but only when I'm rich.
Cheers,
The beers made by the Trappist monks in belgium are amazing. (But you can't drink them cold like a lager). They use a bunch of different malts and the yeast they have been cultivating for 100 years. All natural, bottle conditioned and the strong one is 9%abv.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
I'm also convinced of that but am never able to justify the expense of buying it to do a blind test against the other swill.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
Matilda Bay in WA make good beer. Their Premium lager is now called Bohemian Pilsner and I'm very partial to a drop.
Cept I'm at uni and dont get home till next week .http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...cons/icon8.gif
Seems to me none of you lot have been thirsty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mate I'd drink my own urine filtered through one of my socks before I let any of that stuff in the blue can pass my lips :D
Nah, i'd drink the blue stuff rather then your pi55. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Yeah, you're probably right, my socks do get pretty smelly....
Funny tho, Fosters used to be OK. When I was at school in the UK, Barry McKenzie was an icon, and we used to drink gallons of the stuff. Talk about legless, being used to illicit chug a lugs of British beer (in the South its about 1.5% alcohol) consuming 5 pints whilst no-one was looking, didn't the 6% Fosters knock us around.
If the Empire wasn't aleady lost it would have gone straight down the gurgler once we hit the career path.
That's the point. It's popular all over the world - except for here. I don't know anyone who likes the stuff. People overseas think it's what Australians drink - but we don't.