Leaving Belgium out of the equation, coz it's just not fair otherwise....

Coopers Pale Ale
Coopers Sparkling
Tooheys Extra Dry
Cascade Premium
Asahi Super Dry
Boags Premium

At the pub? Draught Carlton......you get lynched if you order anything else here.

Leffe Bruin....mmmm tastes like treacle!
Hoegarden....mmmm

Like ordering a schooner of Southwark in Adelaide? [edit] as if anybody would [/edit]

Years ago we used to get Boags Lager imported specially. Came in a light blue can. 5.6% and had the lightest lager taste known to man. Went down super fast in an emergency.

Can't get it anywhere now. Bugger.

3 litres of water, every day. 4 on hot days. Always bottled, never tap.

Had some decent nights on the Hoegaarden.....resulting in glasses being smashed in the canal and town bikes being stolen to ride home on.

Duvel also brings back a few hazy memories.


The Dutchies drink either really sh1t or really good bier...

Oranjeboom.....awful. Tastes like Fanta and Morning Fresh combined. Was all they had at the Draai van der Kraai one year....watching Pat Jonker put the front group into the hurt box made it OK, though.


Brand...(which they pronounce something like "Bront") from Limburg.....magnificent.

Good list, +1 on the Hoegaarden.

Tooheys New and Old are ok as well. Carlton is good out of the tap, better than VB, which is crap. West End is a contender for worst beer ever, and apparently Southark is worse!!!

I swapped Rainsford a slab of cheap Boags for a leather Selle Trans Am

Poor bastid. What gives you the will to live then?


As for my beer palate, stronger the better, cheaper the better;

Hahn Premium (at home cause it's strong and I get it cheap)
Tooheys Old (at the pub because it's quality is consistent and it don;t make you sick)

Other honerable mentions

Boags Strongarm Bitter (used to be much better before they weakened it)
Boages Preimium
Cascade Preimium
Coopers Heritage Premium Ale

Hrm, lot of premium in there. Bah, I just buy crap the label convinces me is good then drink it like a ******.

Jeezus......bottle of Laphroig and you could be the proud owner of a T-Mobile Giant!

Beers are getting smaller too.....hardly any of the old 375ml stubs around anymore.

yeah!! I should up the anti and see what I get


You don't drive on that new section of the Hume on your way home?
It's grouse: smoooooth as, and I got from Mulwala to Warrigal Rd without seeing a traffic light!!

guiness. mmmmmmm.

Carlton draft is the go, had one on a business trip to melb in 2001/2 and have had it as my staple ever since

other noteables :

tooheys extra dry. about the only decent thing they make.
Sol
Corona
Cascade
Killkenny
Coopers (the green one)..... mmmmmm coopers uguhguhguh

there are a lot of good american micro brewrey beers as well. went to a pub in San Jose called the "mission ale house" being australian has its advantages, as the waitres gave me a half middy of all the boutiques they had on tap for free

And what did you ...ahem..."give" her in return??

BTW im not unsurprised by the lack of support for melbourne bitter. that stuff along with VB and XXXX are just barley worthy to be drunk by english backpackers.....

then again, i encourage the female english backpackers to drink all they like

I'm not much of a booze-hag like you blokes , but I'll drink any beer, and I know this is a bit girly, but my preference is Carlton Cold

thats between me, her, a chevy truck and the carpark at San Jose stadium

Swapped a half middie for half a mongrel?

Coldies rule. Easy to drink, no 'VB horrors'

yeah, easier on the head

For someone who used to work at the Geebung where they had 72 000 beers on tap....hang your head in shame.

I'm seeing a scene from "Bad Santa" in my mind....

"F*** me Santa! F*** me Santa!! F*** me Santa!!!"

Fuggin bull****e!!!! That stuffs a headache in a bottle. Just can't drink it. Yekch!

I just remembered I've seen that Hoegaarden in Melbourne. Some toffy hotel in St Kilda Rd. Is it easy to get in the big smoke?

Belgian beer cafe (of course)

PLus a few select outlets....eg. the pub about 1/2 a mile from our office has both Leffe and "Hoe Garden" on tap....and it's just a sh1tty little place with a TAB full of smoke.

But yes.....viewed as a yuppie product for Southbank living, flat mobile phone owning, French car driving types. City only.