Beer!!!!!

And you didn't even mention Coopers ....the only 'real' Australian owned beer ... and so successful in the home-brewing market they bought out the US companies doing it.

A REAL beer that has a 'best after' not a 'best before' ...;)

Quoting Jafo, reply 1

And you didn't even mention Coopers ....the only 'real' Australian owned beer ... and so successful in the home-brewing market they bought out the US companies doing it.

A REAL beer that has a 'best after' not a 'best before' ...

Paul, I really like the Coopers beers, especially the pale ale, but this post was more to do with the imported beers we are trying out and seeing more of these days.  Thing is, most regular breweries in OZ these days are foreign owned, so that's why I look to imported beers to add a bit of variety to my palette.... I may as well be purchasing quality beer at lesser prices than the regular home-made stuff, which can get quite expensive and boring over time.  It just shits me that some beers brewed in Europe and shipped half-way round the world cost considerably less than many locally produced beers.

Innis and Gunn Kindred Spirits whiskey barrel aged stout beer.

If it can't be Coopers Vintage......then that one.

Or...more accessible....and cheaper... White Rabbit Dark Ale.

Pretty much anything 'pale' is like English beer....cat's piss....;)

I only drink light beer nowadays.

My favorite is Cascade Premium Light.

Oh well, I only drink Coors Edge, it tastes really great and is classified as alcohol free. I can't drink anything with alcohol in it.

Oh, and it only has 41 calories in a bottle too.

Digging way back into the cobwebs here, I seem to remember some very nice Belgian Beers.  One that I can remember that was nice and a little different was Kriek.  There were several that I thought were worthwhile though.

I like Hacker Pschorr

I spent 2 years in germany while in USAF. I drank tons of Heinekin and Grolsch. I was in heaven.. Octoberfest is a real spectacle itself!    Cheers!    

So you know the taste of cat's piss????   And what's with this Coopers this and Coopers that??  I've drunk beers from all around the world and Coopers is okay but not the epic beer that so many European and British beers are.  Many breweries in Europe and the UK date back as far as the 1600's and beyond.  In fact, one German brewery was established in the 11th century, making it the oldest brewery in the world   Compared to that, Coopers is an infant and still in nappies.

Also, what's with the dark beers and anything pale is cat's piss.  I like my dark beers too, but there are some truly great [pale] lagers that are not only flavoursome but highly refreshing as well.  Thing is, I like variety and trying beers from around the globe provides much variety and eases the monotony.   Frankly, I'd get as bored as bat shit if I were stuck to just Coopers and feck all else.

Yep, that's another that we've tried, and there are several other beers from Europe and the UK that we will try out before getting into beers from Asia and the Pacific regions.  Now I usually say that I haven't met a beer that I didn't like; however, there were some we tried from the Pacific that have way too much fruit in them.  Fruits are great with cereal and desserts, etc, but it don't belong in a fecken beer.  One we tried had Guava, kiwifruit, passionfruit and a splash of coconut milk.  Like YUUUUK !!!! never again..... now we check out the labels, and if there's a fruit cocktail we give a big miss.

I don't mind Cascade of any variety, but up here in the North be don't see much of it.  Boags is the goto beer up here, and now there's a new one called Boags St George, which is quite a nice drop.

Anyhow, it's 8.00 am here now and I've not been to sleep as yet.  Hopefully when I try again in a few moments I'll quietly doze off.

A couple more we've tried recently:

Kalnapilis pilsner..... yup a truly nice beer with a hint of sweetness from the hops.  We got a case of 20 500ml bottles for AU$63.00... a great bargain.

Mythos Hellenic lager..... a slightly sweet beer with the right balance of bitterness to make it a refreshing and enjoyable brew.

Innis & Gunn Original Oak Aged Ale.... brewed in Scotland using reused bourbon barrels and the finest highland ingredients.

Speights Gold Medal Ale.... brewed in New Zealand but not as sweet as most NZ beers and is a full bodied with classic malt and hop flavours.

And last but not least:  Shepherd Neame 1698 Strong Ale.... a great Pommy beer that's triple hopped and  6.5% Alc Vol.  That's right, Jafo, a British beer that'd knock yer socks off with great taste and flavour and beats Coopers Dark Ale hands down.      

Coopers Vintage.....https://coopers.com.au/our-beer/seasonal/vintage 

7.5%  ;p

First vintage was about 1999 ....and I managed to keep a couple of stubbies for 2 years before opening them.  They were stunning.

Hardest problem is keeping them long enough.....I have 2 from 2018 and 2 from 2019 tho.....

Yeah, I have sampled Coopers Vintage among others and quite liked it..... like I said, I haven't met a beer I didn't like .... except that geeky crap with damned tropical fruit in it.

As for the Sheperd Neame ale, it's as full flavoured as you'd like and an exceptional beer by any standard.

As for keeping beer?   And on what sphere of the universe does that happen?    We buy enough beer to last us a week... a week later repeat [without the rinse]  Sadly, however, it don't always last a week.

That Kanapilis Pilsner is mighty good as well.... going at the moment for 63 bucks for 20 500ml bottles [usually around $130] at Dan Murphys.  Yeah, be adventurous and give it a try.

These days I drink a lot of Blue Moon. I'll grab a limited run of another beer once in a while but it's usually my go to. I don't drink a lot of traditional domestics from the US after drinking beer from other countries.

I also have a guilty pleasure with Kasteel Rouge No 8. It's an expensive beer but I really enjoy drinking it.

The best beer CUB ever made was Fosters Export - which, naturally you couldn't get in Australia ...except one time the Grand Prix in Melbourne had it for the Officials' party....probably because the circuit is deemed 'International'.

Anyway...it was pretty good.  What actually killed Fosters generally was the move to aluminium cans...most CUB beers tasted of a combination of Al and plastic sealant.  The worst of that was Carlton Light...it tasted of nothing else...and was a piss-weak beer which really had no point.

I've been drinking beer for half a century.  Life is short.  I refuse to waste my time on junk beer.  Instead, since 1985 when the GP was first in Adelaide I started on Coopers Sparkling and these days buy 2 slabs at a time each month or two....interspersed with something like Innis and Gunn...the odd bottle or 2.

Dining is often simply Guinness [on tap - any other option is crap] by the pint [I 'like to watch' but not too frequently]... it almost has enough flavour...and is low enough in alcohol you're not legless after a few....though the most I've had at a meal/get-together is more accurately measured in gallons.

My old man let me have shandies back when I was about 13 or so ....so it's been nearly 53 years refining my preferences....;)

I've had Fosters Export and the local variety.... both are worse than swamp piss and I never ever want that swill in my mouth again.  Apparently Fosters is very, very popular with the yuppy set in London and other UK cities.  Don't say much for taste.... even the worst British beers are streets ahead of Fosters for taste and flavour.

I had a mate in Queensland some years ago and he would buy nothing but Fosters, so that's all I'd get if I went to his for a few beers.  I stopped going there when he became quite morbid and sometimes aggressive after a split with his then girlfriend, but that's not what put me right off Fosters.  One morning he was still well over the limit, as he so often was, and he drove up the back of a parked truck while on the way to dropping his two boys at school.  The two boys survived but he didn't.... was decapitated as the roof down to the door handles was ripped off.

Mine too, on our way home from work each day, but I was tippling before that.  My mates and I were around 10 when we found a 20 gallon keg and spike that we polished off over a week or so.... then an older kid who easily passed for 18 or older used to get us supplies from various off-licenses.  Another time I was 15 and met up with some Dutch sailors.  We went on this massive pub crawl over a couple of days and I think that's where I got the taste for imported beers.  I'd show them the various British beers and they were getting me all these European beers... and it didn't cost me a penny.

Anyhow, folks, keep 'em coming from the various beers you've tried.  

Strakers you mentioned no fruit in your beer preference. A lot of the mexican beers are great with a little lime in them. Pacifico comes to mind along with Modelo, Does Equixx

Yep....in Oz there are two versions of Corona [not the virus] ....one's a 'copy' brewed in a vat instead of XXXX [or something].

If you look for 'Imported' at least you get the real McCoy, not just that, but Heineken too ....and Grolsch ...etc.

I don't mind a tad of lemon or lime in lagers but I draw the line at tropical fruits being added to beer.  I tried one called Pacific something-or-other [just the one mouthful] and it had guava, pineapple, kiwifruit and coconut.  Put bluntly and succinctly, it was fechen awful and NEVER to be tried again.  There were some boutique beers that were intended for the yuppie set that also were laced with fruit... NEVER to pass my lips again.

As for Heinekin, all the stuff I've tried is imported from Holland and a very nice lager indeed, as is Hollandia.  In fact, I still have 8 500ml cans in the fridge for later, plus a case of 30 375ml cans of 'Ice', which is brewed here in Australia by Tooheys.  Ice is only 4% alc vol, but it is still a nice a refreshing drop, especially after working outside in the yard.  Yup, believe it or not, I can still work up a sweat in just 12c here in Tassie's winter, and a cold beer afterward is just the ticket.

BTW, I have tried Modelo and Pacifico before, but I may just have to refresh my memory with another venture into them.  Thing is, there are so many imported beers to try, but I do fully intend to try them all... less those with damned tropical fruit in 'em.

I like the fully imported Corona [but not the mid-strength one... too watery for mine] and another Cerveza group beer made in El Salador called Cantina.  It is similar to Corona but a tad more bitter, though I quite like them both.

I spend quite a bit of time in the import section at Dan Murphys to specifically research imported beers and their ingredients.  There are some European and British beers that have a taste of fruitiness, but I've mostly enjoyed all the ones tried thus far.  There's a Greek beer that has a hint of liquorice in it and I figured that I wouldn't like it.  However, at a Dan Murphys tasting session I was pleasantly surprised and took home a 6-pack to savour a bit more.

Where I am in the states, Southern Ohio, we have a large abundance of micro breweries around us. Lots of IPA's and and anything ya want. Its real big here. Too many to keep track of.    Cheers

Quoting Dcrew57, reply 22

Where I am in the states, Southern Ohio, we have a large abundance of micro breweries around us. Lots of IPA's and and anything ya want. Its real big here. Too many to keep track of.    Cheers

 

 

Yeah, there's a few micro-breweries here in Oz brewing what's known as boutique beers.  Thing is a lot of them are adding fruits that simply do not belong in beer, so I avoid 'em.... that is the fruity beers.  I have tried some of the fruitless boutique beers and thus far I've been pleasantly surprised with the content and quality of most. 

We have a distributor here named Dan Murphys and they have probably the largest selection of imported beers in Australia, also dozens of Aussie boutique beers, and now that I'm a member I can get special member savings on a lot of my fave brews.

Today we tried a couple of newbies [to us] that were quite nice:  Monteiths Black Beer and Urquell Pilsner from the Czech Republic.  Let's just say that both are very flavoursome and nice on the palette.  Another we have in the fridge for tomorrow, etc, is Steersmans Extra Dry.  I've not tried that one before so I have something to look forward to.

Something that's truly pissing me off at the moment is various Aussie breweries are shrinking bottle and can sizes and charging the same price or more for less.  One such mob is Great Northern Brewing Co.  When they first went on the market, their cans were 375ml, their large bottles were 750ml and the stubbies [smaller bottles], were 375ml.  Now their so-called large bottles only hold 660ml, and the stubbies down to 330ml, and drinkers are paying more for less product.  I point blank refuse to buy it, on principle.

I don't mind paying the going price for imported beers with only 330ml because they were mostly that size and price beforehand... unlike those bastards shrinking bottle and can sizes to ramp up profits.  Sadly, it's a practice that's being used right across our product range to ramp up profits.... many people don't notice the smaller sizes when they're at the supermarket, bottleshop and even pharmacy, but I do and I've boycotted that many products now it's hard to keep count.

Yair .... I remember when beer came in man size ...;)

OMG! Heineken and Grolsch are both Dutch! Were you really in Germany??