RickJP

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You will not find many "off licence "over here now you want drink  go to the supermarket or cut price stores 

Not too many offies left here in Oz, either... most have either been bought up or forced out of business by Woolworths and Coles, our supermarket duopoly that has fingers in just about every pie these days.  On top of food; clothing; furniture and electricals, they're into fuel; insurance; banking; pharmacuelticals; optometry; pubs, bistros and bottlos; hardware; mobile phone services.  Next the bastards 'll be going into politics and buying up the brothels.

However, there's still an independent bottlo just around the corner from here and I buy all my supplies there.  I refuse to deal with Woolworths or Coles owned outlets on principle... what with hostile takovers, predatory pricing and sending 100's of 1000's of farmers and small businesses bankrupt.

Yeah, I know!  S'posed to be about beer and here I am ranting about bastards in retail. 

Must be time for a cold Kilkenny.

I enjoy Kasteel Rouge No8. It can be a little costly if you drink a lot of it, but I find it very enjoyable.

http://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/the-best-beer-countries-in-the-world

Surprised to find NZ in the list. As expected Belgium #1 I would have place Netherlands higher, the microbreweries there produce some  amazing beer.

If that list hasn't got Oz in it then I expect it would also have America as some form of 'great place' for coffee.

Clearly a whole heap of crap...

And if Kiwiland was so good beer-wise why is it almost the entire population now lives in Oz....or is it just our social services...

Most of those beers are either sheepdip or cat's piss.

You can't beat a good real ale

Fuzzy Logic

reply 25

Most of those beers are either sheepdip or cat's piss.

You can't beat a good real ale

Kilkenny is a good ale, as is Worthingtons, Whitbread and Boddingtons... all UK/British brewed.  I might live here in Oz nowadays, but I prefer these over anything brewed here in Australia.  While Coopers and Tooheys make a couple of decent ales, I still prefer the UK brews myself... must be my British heritage, after all, I was born there and remained until I was 16.

True, I wasn't supposed to be drinking beer by then, but I'd had quite an extensive introduction into the art of determining a good drop.... scrumpy being a favourite on the menu

You obviously have no clue Jafo, about a great many things.

Having some New Zealanders move to Australia has a net benefit for both countries.

Some?......"Fush un chups" is almost how we say it now...

Anyway...you guys will be OK....we still have an airforce....and can still send generators next time someone turns your lights off...

But do we have to endure more eps of Motorway Patrol?...

Some?  I saw a statistic a couple of years ago that suggested there were more Kiwis living in Oz than NZ.

The suburb where my sister lives has a saying: "Spot the Aussie."   The larger percentage of the population there is Kiwi, then Samoan.

That's nothing, the lady who works at my local bottle-O was telling me that she wasn't sure what to serve one Kiwi customer when he asked for a 'sex' pack.

There is not enough room for those kiwis to come back to NZ now that Australia is going down the gurgler. So you will have to keep them. There has been a total replacement of the population by the Jaapies.

Next time I am over in OZ I will make a point of asking for feesh and cheeps to eat by the puul in m' thongs.

It is quite interesting how quickly you two turned a discussion about beer into "bash New Zealanders", your cultural inferiority complex raising its head I wonder? And before you go on about kiwis again, I am not a kiwi but I made a choice to live here and don't ever regret it.

I wasn't bashing Kiwis, not at all.  Some of my best friends are Kiwis, not to mention that I spent 3 weeks holidaying in New Zealand, from the Bay of Islands down to Dunedin, and I oved every minute of it, from the coutryside and scenery, right down to the people and Kiwi hospitality. It was a most enjoyable 3 weeks.

As for the lady in the Bottle-O, that actually happened.  She said his accent was so strong that six pack sounded a lot like sex pack... she said that she almost told him that it wasn't one of 'those' estabilshments, that she only sold beer, wine and spirits.

As for living in NZ, I absolutely loved it while I was there and could easily do that if I didn't have so many family ties here.

@starkers all good

Back to beer...

Back when I was living in Amsterdam, I was in a bar one night,

This Aussie bloke came up to the bar and asked the barman, "do you have beer?"

The barman poured him a beer into a standard Dutch glass, probably 200ml.

The Aussie bloke looked at the glass kinda weirdly, sculled it back and said"yep, that 'll do, give me one of those.", obviously thinking the small glass was a "taster" and expecting a pint glass for the "real" round.

I almost pissed myself laughing as the barman tried to explain that he first had to pay for the "taster".

It wasn't in Amsterdam, Holland, even, but I went on a pup crawl with some Dutch sailors one night in my home town, Brixham, Devon, England.  WoW, what a night, and didn't the beer flow.  We [about a dozen of us] started down near the harbour and worked our way up through town, sampling local and European beers along the way. 

They of course were quite interested in the local brews I introduced them to, but they also introduced me to various beers from France; Belgium; Germany; Holland; Denmark and Sweden, etc... not that I remember the names of them all these 40 something years later.

Let's just say that by the end of the night I was as pissed as a cricket... and due for a flogging from dad when I got home at 4am.  I was only 16, after all... though like my father, I had the capacity to consume large volumes of beer/alcohol from a very early age... not that I overindulge like that these days, staying well within my limit and having just a couple here and there for refreashment.

Please ignore the budgie bangers, they don't have a life of their own