Thread: Blinker Fluid...

Originally Posted by Tombie

And never a drop of that rubbish has touched my lips!

When I moved from Moree to Ceduna, I tried Southwark, then West End and Coopers. None were drinkable so I then found out about South Australian wines. I never really went back to beer. I tried a few Coopers Pale Ale and another in a purple can last year but it’s still undrinkable - it leaves a foul taste in my mouth.

When I moved from Ceduna to Carnarvon, I found the WA beers were no better.

During the said beer strike at XXXX Milton , my friend who ran the Kalbar hotel at the time was buying truckloads of beer from Tooheys but farmers weren't enjoying it.

Seeing the strike was on my dear mum sent me a carton of Southwark to help me through the drought , telling the local postmaster about her soldier son defending the country and so on , and had the carton posted very cheaply from Broken Hill to Enoggera Army barracks.

I took the carton out to Kalbar and let Errol send a half a dozen around the bar for taste test , thinking if they liked it , he'd truck some in , but believe me those cans of Southwark made their way around the bar.....this was a famous sunday session.....and came back still 3/4 full with some wonderful comments being made.

Btw, those hard drinkers drank that Southwark because we tipped the whole carton into a small keg on his coolroom manifold and blended it into the Tooheys.

Further to this , the customers told Errol it would be ok if he continued supplying Tooheys when the strike broke , but as soon as it was over they wanted XXXX back on.

This left Errol with a recently delivered 26ton truckload of Tooheys longnecks. Guess where they ended up? Errol had special keg adaptor made up and every hour or so he or his wife or me would knock the top off a dozen longnecks and let them drain into the XXXX manifold.

So Qlders know their beers. Cheers.