Re: American Beer

[Shaun Canning]

People do of course drink VB and Fosters, but they are the equivalent of the Molson's or Bud of the US/Canada and about as good. Some of the best beer on the planet comes from either South Australia (Coopers) or Tasmania (Cascade and Boags). There are also dozens upon dozens of pub breweries, not to mention home brewers. My father-in-law and I brew up some wild ales and stouts from time too time...we have a beer almost every Sunday arvo, and believe me some are more memorable than others. Sometimes the alcohol content gets out of whack if you vary the sugar content at all (which we try to avoid). We had a few bottles a month ago that hit us like a freight train...must have been 9% or 10%. Two 750 ml bottles each and we were singing sea shanties on the verandah. Ah well, the things you can get away with when it's your own beer, and your out in the bush where no one can hear you....

I don't mind some of the English beers of course. But some of them have gone the mass-produced way of Guinness. I used to be partial to the odd 'Newkie Brunn'every now and again, and didn't mind McPhersons or Boddingtons either. The rest of the mainstream beer isn't that much chop.

Beer is a wonderful thing really, pity it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with cameras.

Here is a list of all the reason why beer is better than women http://members.iinet.net.au/~sprat/jokes/bloke007.html

For all those gals reading this here is a list of 86 reasons why beer is better than men http://members.iinet.net.au/~sprat/jokes/gals004.html

For anybody else, bad luck you miss out. Just go and have a beer.

Cheers

Shaun





Christian Skofteland wrote:

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 22:14, Bob Rapp wrote:

For REAL beer, you need to travel to Australia!! For me, I am an American
in paradise!!

Bob (I'll have another pint) Rapp (in Queensland on holiday)

Whatcha drinkin in oz? Better not be Fosters. My wife's family tells me that Fosters is not drunk by "Real" aussies. It's only Americans that drink it. Further more, they claim that Americans paid for the 2000 Olympics because it was so heavily sponsored by Fosters.

When I was there I was only allowed to dring VB.

Christian

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