"Gilbert" wrote in message
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> So WTF do I drink when I get there?
Depends on where you are bound really.
For SA...
VB. At first it tastes fairly neutral but it kinda grows on you, especially
on a hot day after mowing the grass.
West End Draught - avoid like the plague - it's fairly nasty stuff.
Tooheys Old has a sort of smokey taste which is nice in moderation but is
too much for prolonged binge sessions. It's also a bit too fizzy.
Coopers Draught - OK
Coopers Dark - Good
Coopers Pale Ale - much ado abut nothing.
Coopers Sparkling - very overrated. Strong though - 5.9% iirc
Coopers Vintage - excellent, but costly. You'd have to be rich to drink this
full time
Crown Lager - too expensive for what you get
Carlton Cold - ditto
Tooheys New - bland
Stirling - not strong enough
Hahn Lite - pretty good for a lite beer, although you'd have to work real
hard to get pissed
XXXX - not as strong as the UK version. Fizzy nothingness
Imported English beers are available but they're from the bottom of the
heap. John Smiths is here for the desperate, at $75 for a slab of 24, as is
Tetleys Smoothflow. I wouldn't want either.
Bottles of poncy ales like Hobgoblin are sold for $6 odd each. Again I'm not
that much of a saddo to buy them.
Stella Artois is here as well but it's a toned down version - 4.6% as
opposed to 5.1%, and many places won't sell it in pints. In fact many places
don't even do Imperial Pints - the Aussie Pint is only around 425ml.
Remember the Fosters adverts - he who drinks Australian thinks Australian. I
didn't go through almost two years of agony, untold cost, and subsequently
travel 12000 miles to drink English beer or eat English food. I consider
myself an Aussie now, and God help them :)
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