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General Category => OFF TOPIC not Bridgestone related => Topic started by: RayK on January 25, 2016, 03:39:43 PM

Title: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: RayK on January 25, 2016, 03:39:43 PM
Happy Australia Day to all the Aussies with Bridgestones. (And all other Aussies of course) :)

RayK
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: slawsonb on January 25, 2016, 03:53:06 PM
Happy Holiday Aussie BSers.
...bert
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: coxy on January 26, 2016, 12:41:18 PM
Happy oz day to all
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: srpackrat49 on January 26, 2016, 01:01:01 PM
 ;D  Well hell :o today is my B-day  68 going on 15.....  maybe i,ll  go for a ride on my GTO 8)  or have a BEER.... Fosters maybe ::)  have a great day mate 8)
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: coxy on January 26, 2016, 04:13:03 PM
Hey spackrat I haven't seen fosters for years not that I've been looking for it. I gave up that stuff when they put vb on tap. About twenty plus years ago. Now it's just mild stengh beer. Though I did have a few millers the other day which was not to bad
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: RayK on January 26, 2016, 06:09:24 PM
I have agree with Coxy, I wouldn't even use Fosters to extinguish a fire - undrinkable. I drink the only Australian owned beer made by Coopers. All other major breweries in Oz are owned by foreign companies
I prefer Sierra Nevada or Samuel Adams instead of Millers.

Ray
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: slawsonb on January 26, 2016, 06:49:39 PM
So if you like Sierra Nevada, give Anchor Steam or Lagunitas IPA a try. Don't know if you can get these in Australia, but if you can, worth a guzzle. ;D
We can still get Fosters almost everywhere in the US. Probably not the same stuff you get down under, but it doesn't sound like the genuine Fosters is worth finding...lol
...bert
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: coxy on January 26, 2016, 07:33:16 PM
Ray when did Carlton sell out
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: RayK on January 26, 2016, 07:43:36 PM
Coxy
CUB sold to SABMillers in Sept 2011. They are a South African/British company.

Buy Coopers (family owned in South Australia).

See http://www.brewsnews.com.au/2016/01/hottest-100-craft-beers-of-2015-the-results/ (http://www.brewsnews.com.au/2016/01/hottest-100-craft-beers-of-2015-the-results/)

Note No. 18 (my favourite) and No. 97.
RayK
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: coxy on January 26, 2016, 09:01:16 PM
 That's disappointing. And in only 5years out of date
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: OldSwartout on January 27, 2016, 10:45:19 AM
The names of the craft breweries and the beers make interesting reading.  When I'm buying beer, I usually spend a little time reading the bottle labels on the shelf for entertainment.  With so many new breweries these days, the breweries have to get creative to come up with unique names.  A little like trying to come up with a unique name for a band these days.

I'm lucky, I normally drink Miller Genuine Draft as my regular beer with a case of amber or IPA as a treat, but a local liquor store has been selling a variety of seasonal, flavored, off-brand (still great beers), and occasionally a craft beer for less than MGD. It's usually very near it's sell-by date, but there's usually a good seasonal beer, a variety pack case or other nice selection.  I haven't had very much MGD  in the last couple of years. It's been cheaper to experiment with other beers.
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: dcr on January 27, 2016, 10:56:15 AM
Miller High Life - The Champagne of Beers.
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: coxy on January 27, 2016, 12:56:51 PM
There is a local bottle shop that imports beers I might try something different this weekend. I don't go out very much anymore but a few weeks back we went to a pub I used to work at its been turned into an upmarket establishment and the price of a schooner is a whopping 5,80 we didn't stay long. I remember kicking up a stink when the price went up to 90cents
Title: Re: Australia Day 26 January
Post by: srpackrat49 on January 27, 2016, 07:29:50 PM
 ;D Yes those were the days..... i can still remember gas at .29 cents.... could put a buck in tank and cruise all nite in my 1957 ford... the last 57 i had i sold for over 15K....  ::) But i was the third owner :'( :'(