feeling a little upper class tonight !

[Fusion]

Went out and bought some crownies tonight . been awhile since i have had them . So good to have money coming in :D:p:angel: . Cheers fellow AULROians ! :twobeers::twobeers:

[dobbo]

Went out and bought some crownies tonight . been awhile since i have had them . So good to have money coming in :D:p:angel: . Cheers fellow AULROians ! :twobeers::twobeers:


The fridge monkey has been stealing my beer all arvo, bastard monkey.

[101RRS]

I paid the extra $20 and bought some Crownies this week but my mate reckons they still taste the same the VBs I normally drink.

[Fusion]

I paid the extra $20 and bought some Crownies this week but my mate reckons they still taste the same the VBs I normally drink.

Oh hell no ! the crownies are so much better than VB's . VB has gone by the way side since dropping the alcohol content .

[350RRC]

AFAIK Crown is the first pour off a Foster's run. The makers flick a valve when the specific gravity gets to a certain level, then it gets packaged as Fosters.

Flame away, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it is.

cheers, DL

[ramblingboy42]

well I drink coopers....the worlds best beers......and I give crownies to the freeloaders, they think its great and it stops them from drinking my coopers

[Gold_TD5]

I got feed up with paying the Goverment excise on beer, so started making my own, best move ever.
Very small investment for a bloody good return.
On average, $15 makes 50+ stubbies.
Stocked up on glass after the Xmas hols and now have 180 odd stubbies.
Hiccup, wait, make that 179....................................178........ ................177;)

[brenno]

I hope you got the 2 slabs for $80 deal at Safeway Mick.

If not, go and stock up now... :twisted:

[Bigbjorn]

All Carlton and United **** tastes the same. No taste, that is. Made that way to appeal to the great unwashed majority who have no taste. My late father-in-law was wont to refer to all Carlton **** as "Surfside Sex".

If you want to pay a premium price for beer, buy a premium beer. Buy Carlsberg Elephant.

[D110V8D]

I'll drink anything but if I have a choice it's pretty much anything on offer from our friends in Tassie.:cool:

I'm quite partial to Little Creatures Pale Ale from out west too.;)

Most CUB beers taste the same.:(

[BMKal]

I'll drink anything but if I have a choice it's pretty much anything on offer from our friends in Tassie.:cool:

I'm quite partial to Little Creatures Pale Ale from out west too.;)

Most CUB beers taste the same.:(

Have to agree.

My preferred is Boags Premium - and also don't mind the occasional Rogers (made by Little Creatures).

If you get to Fremantle, the Little Creatures brewery at the fishing boat harbour is also quite a nice restaurant. You can watch them brewing your favourite brew through the glass walls while having a feed.

The wall of the male dunnys behind the urinal is one way glass - you can watch them making what you are in the process of getting rid of. :D

[Redback]

I got feed up with paying the Goverment excise on beer, so started making my own, best move ever.
Very small investment for a bloody good return.
On average, $15 makes 50+ stubbies.
Stocked up on glass after the Xmas hols and now have 180 odd stubbies.
Hiccup, wait, make that 179....................................178........ ................177;)

Yep me too


All Carlton and United **** tastes the same. No taste, that is. Made that way to appeal to the great unwashed majority who have no taste. My late father-in-law was wont to refer to all Carlton **** as "Surfside Sex".

If you want to pay a premium price for beer, buy a premium beer. Buy Carlsberg Elephant.

Excellent beer!!

[LandyAndy]

Had a "hickup" in production wich meant a few days on stubbies.
Back feeling "Upperclass" once again tonite:cool::cool::cool: Cracked a keg of Coopers Cerveza and Lime tonite(my own recipe).You cant buy beer like it,MMMMMMMMM
Andrew

[justinc]

Hey Mick! Lifes too short to drink bad beer:D

Enjoy!:)


JC

[HUE166]

The best beer in the world is Windhoek Larger, brewed in Windhoek, capitol of Namibia. It blows CUB beers away and is certainly competition for those Tassie beers as well. :beer:

[BigJon]

I am not much of a beer drinker, but I do know that I don't like Crownies. Overpriced for the taste in my opinion.

I tend to buy beer with the rule in mind "good beer comes in green bottles". I don't have a 100% success rate with it, but good enough to keep abiding by the rule.

[amtravic1]

I am not interested in imported beers. If Coopers is not available then its Crownies for me as well.

[seano87]

AFAIK Crown is the first pour off a Foster's run. The makers flick a valve when the specific gravity gets to a certain level, then it gets packaged as Fosters.

Flame away, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it is.

cheers, DL

Yes, there may actually be some truth in that...

I find the quality of Crown varies way too much between batches anyway and don't drink it.

Would rather a Tassie beer any day of the week! Or some of the WA small breweries...

[d@rk51d3]

well I drink coopers....the worlds best beers......and I give crownies to the freeloaders, they think its great and it stops them from drinking my coopers

Coopers Dark Ale is my beer of choice. :cool:

[dmdigital]

Lot's of better beer around than Crownies. Currently slowly (since Christmas) going through a carton of Little Creatures Pale Ale and a friend gave me 6 pack of Gage Roads Premium which is also very nice.

[ramblingboy42]

The presidents of Cascade, Tooheys, Carlton, XXXX and Coopers were at an international beer conference. They all decided to go to lunch together and the waitress asks them what they'd like to drink. The president of Cascade says without hesitation...."
I'll have a Cascade Draught"; the president of Tooheys says "I'll have Tooheys New, brewed from pure mountain water"; the Carlton president says"I'll have a Carlton Cold, the king of all beers";the guy from XXXX says without a pause "I'll have a XXXX, australias most well known and respected"; Mr Cooper glances at his lunch mates and says"I'll have a pepsi";
The others look at him like he has sprouted a new head. He just shrugs and says, " If you guys arent drinking beer then neither am I".

[dmdigital]

:Rolling:

[agrojnr]

On hot days a nice cold corona or boags will do but in winter I like cascade stout mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


Adam

[Fusion]

To be honest all the other beers mentioned here on this thread i think are crap .... except the home brews :cool: .




so i bought a Heineken mini keg :p . http://www.beerstore.com.au/beerstore/uploads/beerImages/heineken-mini-keg-large-2.jpg

[LandyAndy]

Hey Mick
When you have emptied it,any chance of working out if it can be easily re-filled with homebrew and pressurised???
If often considered buying one just for the container to be able to take my kegged homebrew to parties/camping etc.
Thanks
Andrew

[Fusion]

Hey Mick
When you have emptied it,any chance of working out if it can be easily re-filled with homebrew and pressurised???
If often considered buying one just for the container to be able to take my kegged homebrew to parties/camping etc.
Thanks
Andrew

I shall find out for you good man ;):cool:.

[Fusion]

Just looked it up on the net and a lot of people are saying no to refilling because of the co2 can is inside the keg . But from what i have read you can buy mini keg kits from some places .

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/heineken-mini-keg-refillable-69762/

http://www.kegsonline.com.au/category1_1.htm

[d@rk51d3]

It's a pity that many of the so-called "import" beers are actually brewed here under license.............. They taste like it too.:spudnikhurler:

[HUE166]

Empty Kegs make brilliant under-tray water tanks!:)

[rovercare]

It's a pity that many of the so-called "import" beers are actually brewed here under license.............. They taste like it too.:spudnikhurler:

Yep, gotta get the actual imports:mad:

[LandyAndy]

Have seen the mini "party" kegs powered by Nangs,just been too much of a tight wad to invest in a couple,they are almost as dear as the full size units!!!!
Andrew

[BBC]

The best beer in the world is Windhoek Larger, brewed in Windhoek, capitol of Namibia. It blows CUB beers away and is certainly competition for those Tassie beers as well. :beer:

Agreed. There are only two types of people in this world, those who have tried Windhoek (pronounced 'Vindhook') Lager and, those poor lost souls who are yet to. Available in two South African shops in Melbourne.

Tusker from east Africa ain't a bad drop either.

[LandyAndy]

Good stuff BBC
Next time Im up in Perth,I will see if the SAFRICAN shop in Joondalup next to the homebrew empourium I visit stocks it.
Hard to say with liquor licencing,the Kiwi shops seem to sell Kiwi beer.
Andrew

[HUE166]

Agreed. There are only two types of people in this world, those who have tried Windhoek (pronounced 'Vindhook') Lager and, those poor lost souls who are yet to. Available in two South African shops in Melbourne.

Tusker from east Africa ain't a bad drop either.
Please PM me those shop details. I have friends in Melbourne who will pay for that information!!:D

[BBC]

Please PM me those shop details. I have friends in Melbourne who will pay for that information!!:D

Done. You better hurry up, still some Windhoek on the shelves, but it doesn't last.

[Fusion]

oh man this beer is going down well ! might even get the mini keg finished tonight lol :twobeers:

[billiardbrett1]

350RRC, you are almost right. About 20 years ago I was good friends with one of the brewers at CUB in Sydney and was told that Crown is actually Fosters lager but with an extra 2 weeks fermentation to improve the flavour "slightly" (my quote marks). I also have the feeling that VB and Melbourne Bitter are only seperated by whichever run of labels is in the machine at the time but I can't verify that one. MB never took off in NSW it just goes to show the power of advertising. It just amazes me that people think they are getting a so much better beer when they pay more money. BTW, it has been proven many times in blind tastings that after 3-4 beers, unless you change to a completely different style ie stouts or "black" beers, it is almost impossible to seperate the taste of regular beers. I know pretty much every beer drinker will disagree but having been in the pub game most of my life I have seen it proven time after time.

[Rayngie]

anyone tried Coopers 62?....damn fine beer that one.

[isuzurover]

The best beer in the world is Windhoek Larger, brewed in Windhoek, capitol of Namibia. It blows CUB beers away and is certainly competition for those Tassie beers as well.



Agreed. There are only two types of people in this world, those who have tried Windhoek (pronounced 'Vindhook') Lager and, those poor lost souls who are yet to. Available in two South African shops in Melbourne.

....

Umm - you both realise that Windhoek in Namibia has had direct potable reuse of wastewater since 1968. So that beer you guys are drinking has passed through a whole bunch of Namibians before you get to drink it :D ;) :Rolling: (if you are drinking the stuff brewed in Windhoek)

I agree it doesn't taste too bad, but there are a lot of better beers. For those in Brisbane, Baie Lekker products at Tingalpa sell it. Corkers Liquor at east vic park also had/has some.

[BBC]

Umm - you both realise that Windhoek in Namibia has had direct potable reuse of wastewater since 1968. So that beer you guys are drinking has passed through a whole bunch of Namibians before you get to drink it :D ;) :Rolling: (if you are drinking the stuff brewed in Windhoek).

AND.....that is something Australia better get used to the idea of!!


I agree it doesn't taste too bad, but there are a lot of better beers.

Come on...take a risk....put both of them on the chopping block and nominate what is better.

One of my mission's in life has been to go around the world and seek out bad beers. Ain't found many, I think they are all OK it is just that some are better than others and, all are great when you are in a place where you can't get any...beer.

I will add 2M (pronounced Doysh M)and Laurentina to my African list, both brewed in Mozambique.

[isuzurover]

AND.....that is something Australia better get used to the idea of!!



Come on...take a risk....put both of them on the chopping block and nominate what is better.

True!!!

OK - better... (or at least just as good). NB - this is my opinion - and I tend to prefer ales and dark beers...

In no particular order:
Little Creatures Pale Ale
Pemberton Ale
Knappstein Lager
Franziskaner Dunklesweizen
Schoefferhoffer Dunklesweizen
Coopers Extra Stong Premium Ale
James Squire IPA
any of the beers from the Voegelbrau - but especially their Maibock/Doppelbock/Maerzen
any of the beers from the Forst brewery in northern Italy - but especially their dark/heavy beers
Duvel
Orval
Rochefort - any
Chimay - trippel /brun
A bunch of other belgians whose names escape me
Gallo
Negra Modelo
a couple of other Central American / Mexican dark beers whose names escape me
Affligem
EDIT
forgot Fat Tire
and a few other good US beers whose names escape me

I am probably missing a bunch...
I have only tried 4 or 5 African beers - Windhoek, Lion, and a few others - Windhoek was the best so far.

[hoadie72]

350RRC, you are almost right. About 20 years ago I was good friends with one of the brewers at CUB in Sydney and was told that Crown is actually Fosters lager but with an extra 2 weeks fermentation to improve the flavour "slightly" (my quote marks). I also have the feeling that VB and Melbourne Bitter are only seperated by whichever run of labels is in the machine at the time but I can't verify that one. MB never took off in NSW it just goes to show the power of advertising. It just amazes me that people think they are getting a so much better beer when they pay more money. BTW, it has been proven many times in blind tastings that after 3-4 beers, unless you change to a completely different style ie stouts or "black" beers, it is almost impossible to seperate the taste of regular beers. I know pretty much every beer drinker will disagree but having been in the pub game most of my life I have seen it proven time after time.

Crown's gotta be a better beer than VB cos it's in a classier bottle!

[HUE166]

One of my mission's in life has been to go around the world and seek out bad beers. Ain't found many, I think they are all OK it is just that some are better than others and, all are great when you are in a place where you can't get any...beer.


I agree with your outlook here although I need to mention that SKOLL, a Brazillian beer mutilated under license in the DRC, is a beer that at first tastes like a decent home brew but, similar to VB, after te second bottle the head ache is almost fatal. This is a beer that I would avoid drinking!!:o

[ramblingboy42]

well I reckon a lot of beer tastes like auspice and salt so recycled water will probably only change those marginally.