Now This is A Beer!!!

[Saitch]

Got two cartons given to me for being a bonzer bloke :D..................I think?

[Redback]

Yes it is and my favourite Dark Ale, which reminds me, I might drop into Dan Murphy and get a carton:twobeers:

Baz.

[ramblingboy42]

I see it but I doooooonnnn't believe it......the worlds best beer....no argument here.

[ramblingboy42]

I am a founding member of the Cooper's Club.....now you'd think they would give me some free beer for that.....cheap beer?.......cheaper beer? nah......buggers!

[robbotd5]

My favourite beer is Coopers Sparkling Ale. Love it. It's 5.8%. It sneaks up on you though!!. So be careful with the Vintage!!!!. Enjoy.
Regards
Robbo

[Yorkie]

Yes it is and my favourite Dark Ale, which reminds me, I might drop into Dan Murphy and get a carton:twobeers:

Baz.

Carton of that cover what I owe you? Don't tell kezza. :D

[bob10]

My experience of drinking Coopers, is that it was like drinking mud. What is that sediment all about anyway, the only dark drink worth drinking is Guinness stout. Bob

[digger]

My experience of drinking Coopers, is that it was like drinking mud. What is that sediment all about anyway, the only dark drink worth drinking is Guinness stout. Bob

That suits us... more for us :)

My preference is Pale Ale, then Coopers stout and all their beautiful
selections are a worthy drop.

I am afraid my carton of Vintage didnt last long... (12 months!!)
not quite what they were designed for!

[richard4u2]

is that , that south Australian muck :banban:

[munro]

My experience of drinking Coopers, is that it was like drinking mud. What is that sediment all about anyway, the only dark drink worth drinking is Guinness stout. Bob

Guinness. After Mothers Milk it is the best drink bar none.:angel:

[Andrew D]

I might drop into Dan Murphy and get a carton

I wish, nearest is over 1000 km away. What's going on in Darwin??:mad:

Needless to say boutique beers are a tad expensive here and limited. Most would also be asking what am I referring with the word boutique. Crafted would mean equally less to the locals I'm guessing.

Regards
Andrew

[elshano]

http://www.feralbrewing.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Feral-Hop-Hog.jpgThis is my current favourite beer, Feral Brewery Hop Hog. One of my staff's husbands works for the brewery so she looks after me with heaps of samples :D

American IPA 5.8% 48 IBU OG 1059
Hop Hog is an American style India Pale Ale. We add a heavy dose of American Hops during both during the boil and late in the fermenting stage to give Hop Hog a strong pine needle and citrus aroma, followed by an aggressive bitterness and a dry finish.

[Redback]

My experience of drinking Coopers, is that it was like drinking mud. What is that sediment all about anyway, the only dark drink worth drinking is Guinness stout. Bob

Bloody heathen:p



































Oh and yes Guinness is the best Stout;)

Baz.

[Yorkie]

My experience of drinking Coopers, is that it was like drinking mud. What is that sediment all about anyway, the only dark drink worth drinking is Guinness stout. Bob

interesting experience when in SA recently, order a bottle of coopers and the barman asked if i wanted it rolling before opening? :o
apparantly that is the way alot like it so now he asks everyone. roll the bottle to mix in the sediment. :)

[bob10]

I have to admit, Coopers is a lot better than the San Miguel bottle my mate had a large swig out of in Manila one day, only to find the remains of a dead mouse in the bottom. Bob :p

[KarlB]

We can see who the true patriots are ... http://www.forumsextreme.com/images2/sFl_australia2.gif

[numpty]

Coopers are great beers. Any of them or the Tassie selection of Cascade or Boags are a treat. Cascade Stout is a lovely drop too.

[Distortion]

Feral HopHog and the Mountain Goat IPA are 2 of my favorites

Best beer I've started drinking in the last 12 months would be
Stone & Wood Pacific Ale

[The Cone of Silence]

I was at the Harts hotel in The Rocks at luchtime today and enjoyed a smoked IPA.

Something really different and actually thoroughly enjoyable. I recommend trying it....very smoky flavour like kippers and bacon but in a beer format. Super stuff. Strong though.....


On a different topic, to those who believe that the only dark ale worth having is a Guinness, I'd say....Are you SERIOUS? Have you tried them ALL?
Get out more, mate. Try new things. If in doubt, make one yourself. My mate's first home brew stout was spectacularly good.

[bob10]

On a different topic, to those who believe that the only dark ale worth having is a Guinness, I'd say....Are you SERIOUS? Have you tried them ALL?
Get out more, mate. Try new things. If in doubt, make one yourself. My mate's first home brew stout was spectacularly good.

After 21 years in the Navy, all over the World, I think I have tried just about any beer, or stout, you could imagine. Probably the most weird was a wheat beer in Massawa, Ethiopia, and yes, Guinness stout is the best dark beer in the World. No offence meant, but if if you seriously consider a bacon & kippers flavoured beer , your taste buds must have been altered by some foreign substance, like lemonade, or such like. Bob

[Disco Muppet]

Coopers has been pretty much my go to beer for a while now, it's good stuff.
You think the anti-coopers brigade are heathens, what if I say I don't like guiness? :angel: :wasntme:

[bob10]

Coopers has been pretty much my go to beer for a while now, it's good stuff.
You think the anti-coopers brigade are heathens, what if I say I don't like guiness? :angel: :wasntme:

Your choice, Guinness drinkers are men of the World, confident enough in their own lives not to pass judgement on heathens, Bob

[Disco Muppet]

Your choice, Guinness drinkers are men of the World, confident enough in their own lives not to pass judgement on heathens, Bob

I just don't really see the appeal in it, didn't taste particularly nice when I had it.
Still finished it though, there's a circle in hell reserved for people who waste good alcohol :p

[bob10]

[QUOTE=Disco Muppet;1960446]I just don't really see the appeal in it, didn't taste particularly nice when I had it.
Still finished it though, there's a circle in hell reserved for people who waste good alcohol :p[/QUOTE

May I suggest you don't visit Ireland, Except as a tea drinker from England, Bob

[Disco Muppet]

May I suggest you don't visit Ireland, Except as a tea drinker from England, Bob

I like Whiskey, I'll be okay ;)

[Yorkie]

[QUOTE=Disco Muppet;1960446]I just don't really see the appeal in it, didn't taste particularly nice when I had it.
Still finished it though, there's a circle in hell reserved for people who waste good alcohol :p[/QUOTE

May I suggest you don't visit Ireland, Except as a tea drinker from England, Bob

Ireland and in particular Dublin is the best place to drink Guinness, tastes even better. :cool: to be sure...

[Saitch]

I love Guinness. 90% of my T-shirts are from Guinness promos over the years. I even got a 240v fridge one promo.The Irish Guinness is definitely different i.e. better, than the Oz brewed drop. My B-I-Law & I stopped at a pub in Limerick while the ladies went for a shop. The was a ciele band playing & we ended up having 15 pints each. The women were really impressed to say the least. :p Sister- in- Law also asked barkeep for a "Scotch" in pub near Firies. He kept saying he didn't understand her until finally the penny dropped with her :lol2:

[Bigbjorn]

Guiness is over-rated and over-priced. Best beers come from Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark. They argue about which one invented the stuff and the rest of the world has been playing catch-up ever since.

[Redback]

I just don't really see the appeal in it, didn't taste particularly nice when I had it.
Still finished it though, there's a circle in hell reserved for people who waste good alcohol :p


[quote=bob10;1960481]

Ireland and in particular Dublin is the best place to drink Guinness, tastes even better. :cool: to be sure...

Yes and I can recommend a great Taven in Dublin if you want the true atmospere of Dublin, it's about 5 minutes walk from the Guinness Brewery and is called the Braisenhead, it's the oldest Taven in Europe, opened in 1509, it is also at medieval level, so it's about 20 to 30 feet below currant street level, the beers cold and the Whiskey is Irish, can't get much better:twobeers:

Baz.

[Saitch]

Guiness is over-rated and over-priced. Best beers come from Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark. They argue about which one invented the stuff and the rest of the world has been playing catch-up ever since.

Egyptian women are supposedly the 1st to create beer.

And who cares, some one did!!!

[RED]

Heading off to Ireland next week looking forward to the Guinness tour.

[bob10]

Guiness is over-rated and over-priced

Guinness was started with Divine influence, and Blessed inheritance, in 1759. First exported in 1769, its medical qualities came to the fore, after the Battle of Waterloo, assisting in the rehabilitation of wounded Officers. [ or, they may have just stated that to get more free Guinness] See the true history of the Divine drop here. Bob [ that sound you hear in the dead of night will be the little people, come to pay a visit, to discuss your comment........... no, not jockeys. ] :twobeers:



The Story - Guinness (http://www.google.com.au/url'sa=t&rct=j&q=guinness%20stout%2C%20who%20invented%20it&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEEQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guinness.com%2Fen-us%2Fthestory.html&ei=pYz9UZG0EKP1iQeux4GQAQ&usg=AFQjCNF_QqdHwA5RVeIe9AHOIxZQpadPrA)


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[Saitch]

Heading off to Ireland next week looking forward to the Guinness tour.
Mate, if you've got the time do the Glen Turrett distillery as well.
Have a good trip
Steve

[Bigbjorn]

Guinness was started with Divine influence, and Blessed inheritance, in 1759. First exported in 1769, its medical qualities came to the fore, after the Battle of Waterloo, assisting in the rehabilitation of wounded Officers. [ or, they may have just stated that to get more free Guinness] See the true history of the Divine drop here. Bob [ that sound you hear in the dead of night will be the little people, come to pay a visit, to discuss your comment........... no, not jockeys. ] :twobeers:



The Story - Guinness (http://www.google.com.au/url'sa=t&rct=j&q=guinness%20stout%2C%20who%20invented%20it&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEEQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guinness.com%2Fen-us%2Fthestory.html&ei=pYz9UZG0EKP1iQeux4GQAQ&usg=AFQjCNF_QqdHwA5RVeIe9AHOIxZQpadPrA)


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Is Guiness allowed to be called beer in Germany? The precise Germans have strict purity laws and rules about what beer (stout, porter) can be made from. Most fermented malt liquors made outside Germany do not comply.

[bob10]

Is Guiness allowed to be called beer in Germany? The precise Germans have strict purity laws and rules about what beer (stout, porter) can be made from. Most fermented malt liquors made outside Germany do not comply.

Good point, the Germans are rather pedantic. I volunteer to do a study tour to find out. Funded , of course, Bob

[carlschmid2002]

Beer was invented by the Egyptians because the water was so bad. It was for medicinal purposes. It was quite low in alcohol. It was all the first recorded use of writing. They had to record the recipe. I keep telling my wife of all the great things about beer. I don't think she is convinced.

[Saitch]

Mate, if you've got the time do the Glen Turrett distillery as well.
Have a good trip
Steve
If you get to Scotland that is ;)

[Bigbjorn]

Beer was invented by the Egyptians because the water was so bad. It was for medicinal purposes. It was quite low in alcohol. It was all the first recorded use of writing. They had to record the recipe. I keep telling my wife of all the great things about beer. I don't think she is convinced.

Ale was made and drank in large volumes in medieval times. Ale was considered a healthy drink as people who only drank ale didn't get the waterborne diseases. The brew was boiled but the knowledge of the time didn't extend to bacteria and the fact that boiling the water to make ale killed the cholera and other germs.

[RED]

If you get to Scotland that is ;)

Will be staying in Ireland but I have plans to visit Bushmills Distillery.

Thanks Allan.

[bob10]

German beer philosophy, Bob

The History of German Beer Brewing (http://germanfood.about.com/od/drinks/a/History-Of-Brewing-In-Germany.htm)

and a great idea about overpricing beer ;)

Our oldest records of beer are Sumerian, from near the region of the world's earliest domestication of cereal. Both sexes and all classes drank beer. It was so important that in the Code of Hammurabi (http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031400a.htm) (18th century B.C.) owners of beer parlors who overcharged customers were to be put to death by drowning.

[bob10]

Interesting, click on the what is, no mention of Coopers, Bob
http://img2cdn.nrcdn.com/image_cache/video/video.about.com/food/What-Is-a-Dunkel-About.jpg (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Dunkel-.htm)What Is a Dunkel? (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Dunkel-.htm)
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http://img2cdn.nrcdn.com/image_cache/video/video.about.com/food/What-Is-a-Stout-About.jpg (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Stout-.htm)What Is a Stout? (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Stout-.htm)
http://img2cdn.nrcdn.com/image_cache/video/video.about.com/food/What-Is-a-Porter-About.jpg (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Porter-.htm)What Is a Porter? (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Porter-.htm)
http://img2cdn.nrcdn.com/image_cache/video/video.about.com/food/What-Is-a-Lager-About.jpg (http://video.about.com/beer/What-Is-a-Lager-.htm)

[Pinelli]

Spent the first part of an evening in Amsterdam in a Belgian Beer Bar (Belgians make the most different brands of beer per capita than anyone in the world), and 15% alcohol was not unusual.

Later in the night we went for a tour of the Red Light District, or so I was told the next day :p. Memory was a bit sketchy for some reason.


Oh yes, another vote for Guinness, and from experience, it tastes much better when one is sitting in a warm, friendly Irish/English style pub, with friends, and the weather is cold, wet & miserable outside. Definitely not an Australian summer sort of drink

[Foxspell]

In 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the St James Gate Brewery at a cost of £45 pounds per year, which is what is still paid today.

http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/docs/Guinness_History_Timeline.pdf

Just shows it takes a smart man to brew a great beer!!

Lee

[bob10]

That's not a beer, now, THIS is a beer! Bob


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[BMKal]

That's not a beer, now, THIS is a beer! Bob


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Might be alright as a conversation piece - but have you ever tried drinking that crap.

The locals don't touch it - they leave it for the silly tourists (similar to Fosters and Southwark so I'm told). :p

[bob10]

Might be alright as a conversation piece - but have you ever tried drinking that crap.

The locals don't touch it - they leave it for the silly tourists (similar to Fosters and Southwark so I'm told). :p

Funny, when we lived in the territory, the locals didn't knock back any beer...... even Kimberley cool beer. :D But you are right, not necessarily the beer of choice, from memory green cans were popular, Bob