Before I start this list there are a few things that readers need to know.
- I tried 23 different beers.
- I frequently tried new beers even when I could have drank a beer I had already found that I liked.
- All Aussie beer is served ice cold.
- Aussie beer is a lot stronger than American beer. Usually about double the percentage of alcohol .
- The vast majority of Aussie beers are lagers.
- The whole micro-brewery phenomenon is not as prevalent in Oz as it is in the US.
- The beers are listed in the chronological order they were tried with the first at the top.
- Aussies do not drink Fosters. They think the stuff is $#!%.
- Tooheys Old :|
- Carlton Draught :|
- Tooheys New :(
- Victoria Bitter :(
- Red Back w/lemon :(
- James Squire :|
- Coopers Sparkling Ale :)
- Coopers Pale Ale :|
- Cascade Premium Light :|
- James Boags Premium Light :|
- Abbotsford Invalid Stout :|
- James Boags Draught :|
- XXXX Gold Lager :(
- Hahn Super Dry Premium Lager :(
- Swan Draught :|
- Little Creatures Pale Ale :)
- Crown Lager :|
- Bootleg Brewery Raging Bull :)
- Little Creatures Bright Ale :|
- Little Creatures Rogers Beer :)
- Emu Bitter :(
- Emu Export :(
- James Squire Porter :|
On the whole I have to say that I was relatively disappointed by the quality of beer in Australia. Most of it is flavorless piss colored lager. It certainly does drink easily - mostly because it is very cold -, and it does get you drunk. As the micro-brewery thing catches on more and more in Australia I think that there will be more good beers to choose from in the future.
The best beer I had down here was definitely Little Creatures Pale Ale. The brewery is a small one in Fremantle, Western Australia, that primarily ships its beers along the west coast of Australia.
3 comments:
come on, you've got to give us a better way to evaluate your evaluations? what does :( mean? Give us a metric! what kind of american beer gets a :) from you?
yes, the social scientists have taken over my brain. it happens.
Nope, all you get is non-metric analysis.
For the record all american macro-brewed beers (Coors, Budweiser, etc...) would get :( or maybe :| in very unusual cases.
American beers getting a :) would be Deschutes Black Butte Porter, Mendocino's Red Tail Ale, Down Town Brown, Fat Tire, and Full Sail's Rip Curl.
Boont Amber Ale gets a :P from me as I try to lap it up.
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