Food & Drink Favourite Beers

[Blackhawk42]

Thanks for the heads up on GABS Hottest 100, didn't know it was a thing. I'm a big fan of Kaiju Krush and seeing it come in at 28th means I'm doing myself a disservice if I don't go back and try the 27 before it now.

Blackman's Juicy Banger
Hawkers West Coast IPA
Bridge Road Pale Ale (my local friends)
Hop Nation J Juice
Bentspoke Crankshaft

They'd be my favourite 5 of the top 27.

4 are bigger ABV beers however, so that may depend on your preference.

Happy responsible drinking!

 

[Randy Campbell]

Blackman's Juicy Banger
Hawkers West Coast IPA
Bridge Road Pale Ale (my local friends)
Hop Nation J Juice
Bentspoke Crankshaft

They'd be my favourite 5 of the top 27.

4 are bigger ABV beers however, so that may depend on your preference.

Happy responsible drinking!

Love it.
Keep up the great work.

 

[grumbleguts]

Nah this is the last post on beers.

I don't know how anyone can drink the shit that is Great Northern. Two of my best mates drink it and love it. It's genuinely watered down shit. ****. Shits me.

Carlton Draught is my favourite beer though, and most won't really agree with that.

I hate the stupid song from the ad. The guy sings like he's trying to stop shitting himself and vomiting at the same time.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Check out the GABS hottest 100 craft beer results from this year man, and give a few of the top 10 a try. Just avoid Larry.

Mountain Culture's Status Quo took out top spot and it's a great place to start.

For something a bit simpler, Pirate Life's South Coast Pale or Balter XPA are good gateway beers.

Cooper's is the best bar none. Ale or Lager. Swan Lager goes down quite nicely too if you want an underrated beer. Not a fan of the trendy new beers TBH,

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Blackman's Juicy Banger
Hawkers West Coast IPA
Bridge Road Pale Ale (my local friends)
Hop Nation J Juice
Bentspoke Crankshaft

They'd be my favourite 5 of the top 27.

4 are bigger ABV beers however, so that may depend on your preference.

Happy responsible drinking!

None of those I would drink but that's just my preference.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Just reading an article in The Age that mentioned a decision to restore the original alcohol content to Victoria Bitter.

It started me thinking about how things have changed over the years.

In my younger days, my absolute favourite was Carlton Draught - as long as it was poured from a tap. For bottled beer, I preferred Abbotts Lager (RIP). Wasn't overly fussed with canned beer, but did appreciate Vic Bitter.

Now you can probably deduce I grew up in Victoria.

I recall the first time I walked into a pub in Sydney and asked for a beer. In Melbourne, you said "I'll have a beer." You got a 7oz glass of Carlton Draught from the tap. Not so in Sydney. This was twenty questions. Schooner or Midi? Old or new? Toohey's or Tooth's?

You could get all the other cat's piss that was produced around the country - West End, Swan, Cascade, XXXX. Over the years we saw the arrival of the boutique beers - Boag's et al. Not a great fan of Boag's but I do think it has improved from the initial brews. Then we some some bloody disgusting brews I came across Sydney airport but the name escapes me - did have some catchy phrase in the name.

So here I am decades later and faced with all sorts of decisions in a visit to the bottle shop.

I have tried dozens of beers from all over the world and apart from my still-favoured CD in the tap, the best was in a bar located inside Asia Brewery in Singapore - freshly brewed Tiger - which was a bit strange since Tiger was only a beer to drink when the only alternative was Heineken or Carlsberg.

So, from all your experiences, what's your favourite?

Carlton Draught was the only beer you could get in Melbourne when I was starting to have a beer.
I have always said it was the best drink ever, glass 7oz or a 10oz pot. I worked in a couple of pubs I remember a pot was 20 cents, (yeah a long while back!)
You could take a dollar down the local and have 5 pots. Of the best beer , but as you said, out of the keg on tap thats how to enjoy it best. .
I can remember a freshly brewed Swan draught on a tour of their brewery in WA.
Staight from the barrel sat for three weeks before. Not sure how the process works but it was really good.

Boags leaves a taste inside your mouth after a while , I never liked SA beer West End and Southwark .
But I had some in a pub when I'd driven across to Adelaide delivering some trees, and funny the draught out of the tap was really good, But the cans and bottles tasted different , not so good.

What I drink now, especially when it is hot and you've been doing stuff around the place, hot and thirsty, the beer that floats down my throat very speedily is the Tooheys Extra Dry (TED's) I drank the Carlton Dry too but Tooheys dry has a special taste to it.

Some people like the extra bitterness in VB and its good but Ted's won me .
I like Stella, corona, all the Melbourne beers.
And I remember the Abotts Lager. very well.
It was a good brew!

 

[arupist]

Carlton Draught was the only beer you could get in Melbourne when I was starting to have a beer.
I have always said it was the best drink ever, glass 7oz or a 10oz pot. I worked in a couple of pubs I remember a pot was 20 cents, (yeah a long while back!)
You could take a dollar down the local and have 5 pots. Of the best beer , but as you said, out of the keg on tap thats how to enjoy it best. .
I can remember a freshly brewed Swan draught on a tour of their brewery in WA.
Staight from the barrel sat for three weeks before. Not sure how the process works but it was really good.

Boags leaves a taste inside your mouth after a while , I never liked SA beer West End and Southwark .
But I had some in a pub when I'd driven across to Adelaide delivering some trees, and funny the draught out of the tap was really good, But the cans and bottles tasted different , not so good.

What I drink now, especially when it is hot and you've been doing stuff around the place, hot and thirsty, the beer that floats down my throat very speedily is the Tooheys Extra Dry (TED's) I drank the Carlton Dry too but Tooheys dry has a special taste to it.

Some people like the extra bitterness in VB and its good but Ted's won me .
I like Stella, corona, all the Melbourne beers.
And I remember the Abotts Lager. very well.
It was a good brew!

Sounds like we have very similar taste. I remembered the disgusting cat's piss I had in Sydney Airport. It was, and I know some culture-less heathens wills be upset at this, James Squire 150 lashes. Anyone who says this shit is good has no taste buds.

Edit: Corona is vile. There is a reason they want (need) to add lime.

 

[The hands of stone]

Stone and Wood Pacific ale at the minute

 

[HeHateMe]

Getting into One Drop, going off some of these comments y'all will hate it.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Stone and Wood Pacific ale at the minute

Yeah goes down like a treat

 

[Hawkinspired]

Well I've certainly jumped on the craft beer bandwagon. Barely drank much beer up until 2 years ago. Now I'm a mad home brewer with four beers on tap. I put it down to the complete saturation of the beer market with boring tasteless lager. For decades that's all you could find. Even the best commercial lagers like Asahi, Boags, Stella etc have quite a lot of sweetness it's almost like drinking a soft drink.

If your in this pattern grab yourself a pale ale. It's aromatic, interesting and refreshing. I'm making better beers than I can buy and loving it!

Currently have Munich Dunkel, Smoked Porter, Blonde Ale & Mulberry Saison on tap. View attachment 194600

I’m still loving craft beer. Expensive hobby but good fun. Ended up getting a glass cleaner/chiller on the drip tray which is a game changer.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Sounds like we have very similar taste. I remembered the disgusting cat's piss I had in Sydney Airport. It was, and I know some culture-less heathens wills be upset at this, James Squire 150 lashes. Anyone who says this shit is good has no taste buds.

Edit: Corona is vile. There is a reason they want (need) to add lime.

Have you ever had a dark beer that is now gone out of production, but for a small brewery it was delicious it was a brown ale type, with a mild sweet finish to it. I used to get 6 of them, you couldn't do a sitting and drink the lot, but a couple one or two at a time was very different, it was called Mallee Bull and I think it came from near Mildura.
They stopped making it, might have gone broke, haven't heard of it since?

If you ever had Amber Ale from the southern country region, a couple of hours south of Perth this Mallee Bull was somewhat like that.

Pity it vanished , but I could get it for about a year, every now and again, for a different taste treat.

 

[JoondalupJ]

I’m still loving craft beer. Expensive hobby but good fun. Ended up getting a glass cleaner/chiller on the drip tray which is a game changer.

You said Blonde too, you talking about White Rabbit ? Thats a tasty type of flavour.
But each to hisown , I find Teds not boring and tasteless, it has atang to it I can't explain , I was brought up on Victorian beers, but I gave Carlton Dry the bullet for TEDS, a NSW beer, which is treacherous I know.
But, I do have a taste at times for a nice Ale. Brownish and a sweetish finish.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Getting into One Drop, going off some of these comments y'all will hate it.

Their big sours are extraordinary.

 

[Nathan Detroit]

Anyone ever heard of a White Stout? I've had it from two different breweries and both were wonderful. Also found a brewery near my house that has a really good Doppelbock and outstanding pizza. Life is good.

 

[The hands of stone]

My fav was sierra neveda pale ale - cannot find it anywhere now

 

[Nathan Detroit]

My fav was sierra neveda pale ale - cannot find it anywhere now

You can get that at Walmart in the US.