I remember trying to get a good pour in Australia bars. If one ordered a scotch on the rocks, the result was wet ice cubes. We tried doubles. Not much better. To get a pour anything like one gets in the states, the order was "a quadruple scotch on the rocks, please." Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Paul Ewins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > BYO was pretty common in Australia as the licensing laws were gradually > loosened up. It's still around as a sort of "halfway there" thing for small > restaurants that can't be bothered with stocking a range of beer and wine > for six tables or if the owner isn't interested in jumping through the hoops > required for a restaurant liquor license. > > You need a license to sell any sort of alcoholic drink and it must be a > separate area so the supermarkets tend to have a store attached to one side > with its own set of registers so that you have to exit one to go to the > other. > > Pubs usually have a drive through bottleshop that has a limited range, but > it covers the sort of stuff that a 19 year old will want to take to a party. > Unless you want something very obscure the best place to go is one of the > large wine discounters. The prices are the best and the range is usually the > best too. My GF is allergic to sulfites which are used in almost all wines > as preservatives. The only place we can buy sulfite-free wines over the > counter is the local discounter. > > The most interesting whisky experience I have had was being taken to the > Edinburgh Scotch Whisky Society a couple of years ago by a friend who was a > member. They buy their own barrels and then get the various distilleries to > fill a couple of barrels and let them mature. When they are bottled they are > sold exclusively through the society to members. Some were very, very > expensive. Anyway he bought a variety of whiskies for us to taste and showed > the difference between watered and straight. Very educational and their > somewhat whimsical tasting notes actually made a bit of sense. > > Paul Ewins > Melbourne, Australia > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Scott Loveless > The LCB also regulates the number of licenses for restaurants. I have > never lived anywhere else that had restaurants with BYOB signs on the door. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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