G'day from Up Over

[bennylaird]

Is it just me or is might this be an alternative Friday thead in disguise?

We will know later if the mods close it?

[Felder]

Is it just me or is might this be an alternative Friday thead in disguise?

What's a Friday thread?:confused:

This is a thread welcoming SawDustJack.








Tooheys Red. Now that's a rough one.

[bennylaird]

Sorry mistook you for the other Felder, hang on this is the other Benny????

[Dr Jan Itor]

Do they still make Fosters? If so why?

Because the yanks are still silly enough to want to pay for it.

As I always say when someone offers it to me overseas - "there's a reason we export that stuff".

[Cliff Rogers]

Is it Friday yet? :confused:

[Andy Mac]

Leave XXXX out if this...in fact being a Friday, I will soon be enjoying a couple at the Farmer's Arms.
Who was it that said American beer is like making love in a canoe?

Cheers,

[Felder]

Leave XXXX out if this...in fact being a Friday, I will soon be enjoying a couple at the Farmer's Arms.

That sentence makes no sense..... :confused:

Who was it that said American beer is like making love in a canoe?

Dunno, but I quote them often.

[Cliff Rogers]

....Dunno, but I quote them often.

You must be going in too high, try a lower price.

[Honorary Bloke]

Well and truly highjacked. Good job youse blokes. Now it's Friday over here--should I start another thread?

[ozwinner]

Well and truly highjacked. Good job youse blokes. Now it's Friday over here--should I start another thread?

Go for it Bob, we can keep the Friday fred going for ever.

Well until Saturday at least.

Al

[Bleedin Thumb]

Nup , Still want to know if you guys do infact drink your own local brews or is it imported "boutique" beers like Fosters.

[Honorary Bloke]

Nup , Still want to know if you guys do infact drink your own local brews or is it imported "boutique" beers like Fosters.

Okay, here goes. By far the largest sellers are the domestic beers like Budweiser and Millers. They are, of course, horsep*ss, but cheap.

We do have a great number of very nice small brewery beers like Samuel Adams and Iron City which enjoy a following. Most of them have limited distribution areas. There are also local brew pubs that sell beer made on the premises.

Imported beers are popular as well, led by Mexican brews such as Corona and Tecate. I am pleased to say that Fosters, while sold here, is really not all that popular. They had a big ad blitz about ten years ago with the slogan: "Fosters, it's Australian for beer." Evidently that didn't work, because they gave up and are settling for a small niche, selling mostly the larger, single tins of beer rather than the 6- or 12-packs.

The local stores have a plethora of choices: German and Dutch beers, Guiness, Japanese beers, etc. At the end of the day, it is personal taste, innit? Since I have traveled Europe extensively, I often suspect that the beer they export to the States is not the same beer they sell domestically. At least it doesn't taste the same to me.

Personally, I don't drink that much beer but prefer the German ones over others. The Mexican dark beers are also good.

The market for beer in the U.S. is huge, so naturally every brewer takes a run at it.

[Andy Mac]

Dunno, but I quote them often.

Probably, it was a Monty Python sketch....continued with, "Because its f***ing close to water"

Cheers

[Bleedin Thumb]

Personally, I don't drink that much beer but prefer the German ones over others. The Mexican dark beers are also good.

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Thanks Bob,

Up until at least the 90's Bud in the States was a different brew to that of Europe because of that copyright/ownership issue. That has probably been settled by now.

Just visited the Coors Web site. They now owns Grolsch, Carling, Bass and Worthington ..the poms must be crying in their beers.

Its funny that you have to enter you birth date to prove your 21 before you can look at their site...come on now! Its not as if its pornographic is it?:confused:

And what is it with a 21 age limit anyway? You can be sent off to war and get your a$$ blown off but you come home and cant have a beer. Very cruel.

EDIT Sorry Bob just realised I put the wrong quote up top.. should have been about the difference between domestic and same brand imported.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Speaking of beer. Look at the lengths that brewers will go to trying to get you to drink their product.

http://www.humantesting.com.au/