Name your BEER

[CanadianSteve]

A tv ad here used to say, with an Aussie accent: "Foster's. Australian for beer."

Meaning it was synonomous with beer in Aus.

You do still have kangaroos and boomerangs, don't you?

 

[Willow]

We only have Kangaroos hopping down the main street Steve. And evey male child here is born with a Boomerang in hand... at least we tell the tourists that its a Boomerang.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Every weekend I box kangaroos while wearing my hat with corks dangling off the brim.

 

[Willow]

Y'know...I have never seen a swaggie with corks dangling from a hat. In fact, I don't recall seeing a swaggie at all....
Has anyone ever seen a swagman?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Yup, he was camped by a billabong, under the shade of a coolabah tree I think...

 

[SpaceMonkey]

...and he was cooking shrimp on a barbie.

 

[Willow]

...and thats another thing. I may have cooked the odd prawn on the barbie... but never a shrimp... who cooks shrimps on the bbq?

 

[Cronulla_Mania]

A beer would go down real well at the moment after a 40c day.

Re: SM's last 2 posts, maybe he did end up hitting the bottle today

Moffo

 

[Mel§tar]

Joke I received today...

Four brewery presidents walk into a bar. The guy from Corona sits down and says, "Hey, Senor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona." The bartender gives it to him.
The guy from Budweiser says, "I'd like the best beer in the world. "Give me 'The King of Beers,' a Budweiser." The bartender gives him one.
The guy from Coors says, "I'd like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water. Give me a Coors." He gets it.
The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke." The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.
The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask, "Why aren't you drinking Guinness?"
The Guinness president replies, "Well, I figured if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither would I."

 

[st ted]

Beer Trivia.
Q. Why does Tooheys have a stag horn as its emblem?
A.After having previously owned an Inn called the Spread Eagle Hotel at Brickfield Hill the owner moved to that part of Petersham called Leichardt and purchased land from Captain Piper and erected the hotel thought to be called the "Australian".The licence being transferred from another hotel on Parramatta Road also known by the name "Australian" (1833-37).
When a favourite old buck deer of the owner who also had a small property at Fivedock died, he had its head preserved and mounted and hung in the Bar,and after this by common usage of patrons it became known as "the Bald Faced Stag", which is the name it carries today.It has the distinction of having held a continuous licence longer than perhaps any other hotel in the Commonwealth.
Anyway the pub was passed from father to son and when minehost received a complaint from two brothers, Thomas and James Matthew Toohey,that the beer was no good they were politely informed if they could brew a better beer the hotel would market it.John Toohey(who obtained his Brewers Licence on 7 September 1869)purchased Darling Brewery and his first beer was called Stag Lager.He purchased the the right to use the Stag Head as his logo in 1909.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Moff: I wish... work and then an hour in the gym aren't as much fun I was just regurgitating all the standard Ocker cliches that us foreigners get fed (although at least in NZ we got fed a bit more than just the cliches).
Willow, too right about the shrimp, they'd fall through the grill.....

 

[Willow]

Beer and BBQs go together well.The steak and snags don't taste quite as good unless they've had beer poured over them.
I class VB as a cooking beer.

 

[Kiwi]

ok I have three beers that I drink.

Crown
Hinekin ( sp? always get it wrong )
and Steingrenades ( steinlager to those who have not had a steinlager hangover )

 

[imported_kier]

In the UK I had many, many favourites - going from trad bitters, stouts, lagers to cider.

If I had to narrow it down....

bitter - Black Sheep (or Summer Lightning if I could find it)
stout - Beamish
lager - Stella
cider - Old Rosie

In NZ..........the jury is still out, although I have been impressed with Monteiths Black

 

[Gav-bt]

Whittakers - no longer exists
Websters - exists in name only
Toby Light - From my youth, a Burnley brew
Stella
Guinness