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Originally Posted by 1OldGI

You know, I've heard that about Foster's, that it was, shall we say, somewhat low brow beer in Australia. I find it an excellent hot weather beer but don't generally drink it in the Fall/Winter. Then again, my tastes are pretty pedestrian anyway, I'll often drink Natural Light and/or Pabst Blue Ribbon and lots of folks here consider that pretty low brow. But alas, even I have standards, I'll not drink Keystone, Shaffer's, or Miller High Life.

I'm often given a hard time for my love of PBR. Not only is it cheap, it has a flavor that isn't half bad. AND it won a blue ribbon! How can you go wrong with it? PBR, Yuengling, and Rolling Rock are my go to beers (the rolling rock is only for when some place is too high brow to keep the PBR around). After that, I'm a sucker for decent Lager or, more prefferably, a Heffe. But I'm a cheapskate so I usually drink PBR.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Mick, can you get San Miguel in Australia? When I was stationed in the Philippines that's pretty much the only beer I drank. Good beer and dirt cheap too. Although I suspect they had some quality control issues. You never knew from one beer to the next what the precise alcohol content would be. If you bought a case, you might drink the first 10 or 12 in a single setting and feel nothing. Then the next night you could drink two and have absolutely no business being out in public. When I first got back to the states, it took several months to get used to American beer.

On a couple of occassions since I left the Philippines, I've been able to locate San Miguel but alas the import version just seems to have a very different taste. And oh yeah, Cajun food is fine eats for sure.

We can get San Miguel here, but it tends to be on the pricey side, being an "imported beer". Yeah, I know.

Most of the American beers we get here are the mass produced stuff, Budd, Coors, Miller, etc. Again, cost a fair bit and... yeah, not the best. They often try promotions to get us to try it, like the other day I was in the bottleshop and saw that they would give you a free Budweiser basketball if you bought a case of the stuff. Even the guy who ran the bottle shop told me "Don't bother. The basketball is not that good."

I've been finding a lot of cheap Euro beers that I enjoy, from places like Poland, Holland, Austria. I think they must be the "bottom of the vat" generic stuff over there, because it is the same price as our cheaper domestic stuff, but much nicer.

In Australia, much like the USA, there is a world of difference between our mass market beer and the boutique stuff. And the good stuff isn't really exported much.

Several of the grocery stores here are doing the mix and match six-packs now. Some have dozens of choices that change faster than you can try new ones.

+1 on PBR's; also, the Foster's Ale in the green cans (not the blue) is pretty good.

Hi Old GI. Nice to bump into you again. Good thing we don't stay in the same town. We would be bumping into each other all over town

I will have to talk to the local bottle store owners ..........

yall should try St. Arnolds from Houston (Texas) it is aweeessssoommeeeeeee. BTW they do that pick your own beer 6 pack thing in grocery stores here in houston. i love Texas.

Originally Posted by MickRussell

Fosters ... as in Australian Fosters?

Look, I'll do you yanks a favour and let you in on a little secret. Fosters is our practical joke on the world. Seriously, it's used here for stripping grease off bbq plates, it's not intended for drinking.

Fosters: Australian for "you drink it" (not me)

So I am in the club that likes PBR but also in the club that doesn't like Fosters. I never got the whole Fosters thing, to me it's just not good!!! Now I have an unhealthy love for Shiner, thats some good stuff. As far as the big american beers like bud, coors, and such, I can live without all of them. The New Castle Brown ale mini keg though, I want to hug the guy who came up with that thing Good times right there!

Ok enough off the subject.. I was in east Texas the first time I saw a build your own sixer!! It's a great way to try new beer without being stuck with 5 shitty beers! It was in a grocery store that had a big walk in beer cooler, it was one of those AHHHHHH!!! moments when I saw all the singles!!!