Food & Drink Favourite Beers

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

I prefer plain old lager than IPAs, craft beers, stouts, etc and love this stuff on tap...

 

[Woodside Hawk]

Nothing wrong with an Asahi on a hot day, or with a spicy chicken ramen. Does the job very nicely!


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[Woodside Hawk]

Southwark Old Stout.

Yum.

Just enjoying one of these again now, first one in a long while.

Very happy to report they are still in the old 375ml stubbies - none of this 330ml bullshit for Southwark!


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[Great 2008]

My daughter bought me a mixed 6 pack of beers from around the world recently. So far my favourite. Clean tall glass chilled in the fridge. Drink on its own not after any other beer.

 

[KermitJagger]

Stone and Wood pacific ale is the best drinking beer around at the moment

 

[satadaynitefeva]

Free

 

[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?

You sound like me. Loved Carlton draught out of the tap. Loved Abbotts Lager from the bottle, used to like VB but wasn't huge fan, when I first came over to WA in the beginning, VB was the biggest selling beer here. That goes before Emu Export Lager , Swan out of the tap, good, but Export had a flavour of its own I'd by 6 on a Friday sit in the backyard read the Daily News I think it was, and drink the lot. beeeautiful.
It didn't leave that inside of the mouth lingering bitterness that I found in Boags. I liked Southwark only out of the tap, didn't like Sydney beers but that was probably my Victorian up bringing.
XXXX was ok and I remember I enjoyed Powers while in QLD for a few months , not sure if it exists now.

I loved Carlton Cold when it came out but they took the "grip " out of it when they weakened the alcohol content, but Carlton Dry and TEDS (TooheysExtraDry), In the hot summer they are really nice, though sometimes they can be a bit bland ,but when your feeling like one, there is a special taste.
But if you like hoppy beer maybe not for you.
I like that White Rabbit Dark Ale, and James Squire Amber ale. Raging Bull from down the WA southwest. Got to go there to buy it but.
Drank Mildura, Mallee Bull that is beautiful dark beer , those ones always have a little sweet finish to them, makes them for me, magical like eating beer , ha ha . Better than Guiness. But I like Guiness too.
To stay on the lighter lager side , I like full strength 5.1% Peroni, Italian beer, it has a little hoppiness in it, but not overloaded hops or bitterness and its a hot weather beer, too, I have it when the Dry s' start tasting only fizzy and cold, but I'll go back to them as well!

There are so many types of beer, and there is nothing like a good one. The Asians make good beer too, Japanese Beer Asahi and Kirin I think, there are lots, even the Yanks can brew a goodie, and of course the Europeans and the Poms they know how to make a beer alright.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Coopers Sparkling is my favourite beer by a mile.

Used to love Cascade Pale until they changed the hop mix about 15 years ago.

Not a fan of VB, Draught or any of the CUB swill.

Also find all of their brewed under licence beers - Stella etc - to be far inferior to the real thing.

I like a good pilsener too - Trumer, Budvar if you can get it fresh.

Most memorable beer, or the the one that truly hit the spot, was a XXXX at the Karumba pub at the Gulf of Carpenteria. We'd been driving all day on dusty, hot roads and it really hit the spot.

But I'm going off memory here - I stopped drinking when my son was born.

Good heavens did I here the words "that CUB swill" ?
Is that Paul Keating making those comments, you could be challenged to a duel sir.
Wait til I get my metal glove .

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I am loathe to compliment anything from Geelong, and I generally try and steer clear of the MNC-owned 'Aussie' beers these days - but at the price it is hard to go past a Furphy these days. It's a good go-to on tap if I can't get Stone and Wood.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Holy crap this thread is right up my ally.

In no particular order, my regular favourites...

Bridge Road pale ale.
Two Birds pale ale. (and Taco)
CopyCat IPA
Stone n'Wood
Mildura Honey Wheat
Mountain Goat steam ale
Brookvale Union Ginger Beer
Furphy
Feral Hop hog

Probably a few more I can't think of right.

A couple of speciality beers i've had that are ridiculously nice include...
Stomping Ground Watermelon Gose
Pirate Life Pale (and IPA)
Bridge Road Porter
Balter XPA (took out the hottest 100 craft beers this year and i'm not surprised)

 

[Dinsdale]

Sierra Nevada Tropical Torpedo is pretty damn good! I'm trying to brew it myself, huge amount of 5 different hops.
6.7%

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I tried a Balter IPA over the weekend - it's light tasting but packs a punch at 6.8%. Was unreasonably prices - a 4 pack sets you back $24, however it was good drinking. Paired well with the quality Chinese food!

 

[Gralin]

My favorite beer is Cider

I did use to enjoy a nice IPA
Hopwired from NZ was a favorite.

A nice red or brown ale, had many of both

Just can't really drink beer anymore unfortunately

 

[Ned Ryerson]

My favorite beer is Cider

I did use to enjoy a nice IPA
Hopwired from NZ was a favorite.

A nice red or brown ale, had many of both

Just can't really drink beer anymore unfortunately

I still enjoy it, particularly on a casual drinking basis - but the last couple of times I’ve been drunk on beer though it’s made me quite ill afterwards with particularly bad hangovers. This getting old business is bullshit!

Big nights now call for the gin.

 

[arupist]

Saw this in Dan Murphy's. Anyone tried it?

 

[Upgrayedd]

As dissapointing as last season

 

[burton5]

Saw this in Dan Murphy's. Anyone tried it?

It's not bad - had it on tap a few times on Glenferrie Rd


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[Arkadia]

During the month of March we had a cousin of my wife stay with us from Germany. Needless to say he loved his beer. He was quite fond of our VB...I cannot say i am enthralled with our VB.
We tried to take him to various tourist spots in and around Melbourne.
One particular adventure was boarding the Port Phillip ferry at Docklands to Portarlington.
Warm day, the kids loved the beach. We finally dragged them away from the beach for a feed before we hopped on the ferry back to Melbourne.

We ate at The Grand Hotel.. food was superb, cannot beat pub meals. We also had the Boston Lager- Samuel Adams. Thumbs up was the verdict from our overseas guest and myself.

 

[Bumps"N"Grins]

Sierra Nevada Tropical Torpedo is pretty damn good! I'm trying to brew it myself, huge amount of 5 different hops.
6.7%

How did your cloning go? Always hard to perfect. I find that using a good beer as inspiration generally results in a fairly good home brewed drop anyway.
If your clone came up good I'm always happy to grab a copy of your recipe.
Trying to get a down a version of Feral hop ATM.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Sierra Nevada Tropical Torpedo is pretty damn good! I'm trying to brew it myself, huge amount of 5 different hops.
6.7%

Tropical torpedo is a great drop


Anyways, Brands?
Dainton
Sierra Nevada
Rogue
Weihenstephan
Prancing Pony
Artisan (Denmark, only make kegs unfortunately)

 

[Dinsdale]

How did your cloning go? Always hard to perfect. I find that using a good beer as inspiration generally results in a fairly good home brewed drop anyway.
If your clone came up good I'm always happy to grab a copy of your recipe.
Trying to get a down a version of Feral hop ATM.

Hi mate,
Colour worked out perfect, but still chasing the hop aroma, really hard to achieve when home brewing even when doing all grain brews. If you read up on how SN do their torpedo, they pump the fermenting wort through a huge long SS cylinder at about 20deg for a week... I dont have the equipment for that...

Anyhow, here's the recipe I used, all grain, cracked to .9mm. Grainfather as brewing device

Recipe: Dinsdale's Tropical
Volume: 23L
OG: 1.064
FG: 1.009
Boil: 60mins
Yeast: Safale S05 11gm

Grain:
Pale Malt 2 row: 4.8kg
Munich Malt 1: 680gm
Melanoided Malt: 220gm

Water treatment: 9gm gypsum in mash water

Mash profile:
Step 1: 60mins at 64°
Mash out: 10 mins at 75°

Boil Additions:
30 mins: 25gm Amarillo
15mins: 1 tablet Deltafloc
0 min: flameout (for 20 minute hop rest)
25gm El Dorado
28gm Comet
28gm Mosaic
28gm Citra

Ferment at 20deg for 11 days or until gravity is stable.

when gravity is 1.020 (around 5 days in?)
Hops:
28gm El Dorado
28gm Comet
28gm Mosaic
28gm Citra

I then crash chill the fermenter in a fridge for 3 days or so as I keg my beer, lets all the yeast and hops drop down, then Keg (19L) and bottle a couple if theres enough left

I have started drinking this a day after kegging, but left for a week or so is better. 4 weeks if you bottle your beer.

 

[Bumps"N"Grins]

Hi mate,
Colour worked out perfect, but still chasing the hop aroma, really hard to achieve when home brewing even when doing all grain brews. If you read up on how SN do their torpedo, they pump the fermenting wort through a huge long SS cylinder at about 20deg for a week... I dont have the equipment for that...

Anyhow, here's the recipe I used, all grain, cracked to .9mm. Grainfather as brewing device

Recipe: Dinsdale's Tropical
Volume: 23L
OG: 1.064
FG: 1.009
Boil: 60mins
Yeast: Safale S05 11gm

Grain:
Pale Malt 2 row: 4.8kg
Munich Malt 1: 680gm
Melanoided Malt: 220gm

Water treatment: 9gm gypsum in mash water

Mash profile:
Step 1: 60mins at 64°
Mash out: 10 mins at 75°

Boil Additions:
30 mins: 25gm Amarillo
15mins: 1 tablet Deltafloc
0 min: flameout (for 20 minute hop rest)
25gm El Dorado
28gm Comet
28gm Mosaic
28gm Citra

Ferment at 20deg for 11 days or until gravity is stable.

when gravity is 1.020 (around 5 days in?)
Hops:
28gm El Dorado
28gm Comet
28gm Mosaic
28gm Citra

I then crash chill the fermenter in a fridge for 3 days or so as I keg my beer, lets all the yeast and hops drop down, then Keg (19L) and bottle a couple if theres enough left

I have started drinking this a day after kegging, but left for a week or so is better. 4 weeks if you bottle your beer.

Awesome thanks.
Will change El Dorado for Amarillo as that's what I have and give it a shot.

Should have it ready to go late September, will taste better should the hawks go deep.

Cheers

 

[arupist]

Is this where we come to get over an intolerable loss and need to forget?

 

[JoondalupJ]

Is this where we come to get over an intolerable loss and need to forget?

Yes , 24 White Rabbits, and gone!

I discovered this brew only recently and it is very nice. To deal with undealable situations , like the dead feeling inside, when you belted.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Saw this in Dan Murphy's. Anyone tried it?

i FIND SOME BEERE ADVERTISED AS TROPICAL with fruit and citrus ARE AT TIMES LIKE BEER THAT HAS SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BEER ADDED TO IT, LIKE A DASH OF LIME OR LEMON OR MAYBE EVEN PINEAPPLE. (CAPS SORRY)
So I try to steer away , but if you like that dash it is probably great.