Thread: sorry I missed you, Wonderedge

Originally Posted by RichZ

That was just the brewmasters signature.

I feel like I need to defend the honour of our brewing industry, but words like "honour", "brewing", and "Fosters" should never appear in the same sentence...

Favourite beers in Australia are VB (Victoria Bitter), Fourex (XXXX - Queensland beer), Coopers (South Australia, I think) and imports. I'm a bit of a "Tooheys Black" fan myself - not really Guiness, but pretty good.

Originally Posted by izlat

sorry to say this, but from US beers I only like some microbrews and some of the offerings from Sam Adams.

Mixing gets me going faster (and I love variety) - I like this when I don't have much time - like yesterday, got out at 9 and was back about 2 am. I am at work today, after all...

Cheers
Ivo

Budweiser is the devil's beer.

Has anyone heard the joke about the American tourist in Ireland who asks the bartender for a budweiser? The ironic thing is that bud is hugely popular over there. :P

Guys,
I've got several things to input here.
1. In Australia it is Victoria Bitters or VB that seems to be everywhere.
2. I've seem a person walking out of the Duty Free area at Shannon with a couple of 12 packs of Bud.
3. If you go to Prague and order Budwiser, it is the other one (Czech Republic) and it is really quite good. In fact, anything that you order in Prague that says PIVO on it is good.
4. All of the Fosters that I have seen in California says "Made in Canada". I don't remember if it says that in one or two languages.

Rick

I've got to make it to Prague someday. The beer of Brussels was good, too, though it's about the only thing that the city has going for it after the first few hours.

I'm sorry to offend anyone from Belgium.

If anybody ever gets to Bavaria, in the area of Regansburg, there is a monastery a little ways up the Danube that makes a beer called Weltenburg. The monks started making beir in 1050 A.D. and are quite practiced. Highly Recommended.

Rick

Originally Posted by izlat

Met some friends for dinner last night. Blew a Wonderedge.

What I find amusing is that Ivo is thinking of what he spent in terms of the value of a razor, and none of even blinked. We're a sick bunch of guys!

By the way. XXXX bitter is called XXXX because Queenslanders can't spell beer

Originally Posted by Aussie

By the way. XXXX bitter is called XXXX because Queenslanders can't spell beer

Them's fightin' words!

Jimbo,

Can you recommend some Australian beers we can get here in the US? Or some wine?

Originally Posted by RichZ

Jimbo,

Can you recommend some Australian beers we can get here in the US? Or some wine?

I don't know which beers are exported to the US from Aus., maybe the other Aussies can help me out. I can tell you to keep an eye out for Coopers - it's always good, but don't know if it's in the US.

For wine, again I don't know exactly what's exported to the US. Jacobs Creek is pretty good (for the price), Penfolds, most anything from the Margaret River region. Barossa Valley wines are generally good, but the Hunter Valley wines can be a bit hit or miss. I like Wolf Blass, especially the Black Label.

If you could get hold of a bottle of Penfold's Grange Hermitage, you'd probably want to emmigrate (if you had enough money left)!

James.