Me and Handsome James buying cheap “big boys” from AM/PM. So good. The Canadian imported version doesn’t seem as nice though.
As for usual beers, every Tuesday ride starts with one of these two beers. Especially because the Exeter do $4.50 pints of each (it swaps when the weather gets warmer / colder).
re: MB versus whatever, i’m divided.
i think there are times when people should just stop being fussy wankers and just drink cheap simple beer from a 40-can-slab. when you’re drinking them for breakfast at a music festival, for instance. has worked for me.
then there are times when i’ve had coopers all night, someone has bought me a carlton draught, and it’s tasted like the worst cat vomit imaginable. so back to the coopers/james squire/little creatures/bluetongue etc.
so i think it’s a matter of time and place.
re: the grolsch, it’s in the fridge right now. if i can actually pick the taste between dutch and australian brewed grolsch i’ll be quite impressed with myself.
cheapest is always best. 9/10 (bullshit statistic) the cheaper will always be the imported one cos parralell importing compainies bring it in so cheap.
coopers pale ticks all the boxes;
cheap, tasty, and easy to get a hold of-on draught or at bottleshops.
Melbourne Bitter is ‘cool’ not good, but it’s a shit load better than corona.
edit: cider is where it’s at, gimme a mercury dry or draught anyday
so i checked the box and the grolsch is indeed imported from the enschede bierbrouwerij. phew.
tastes pretty good too.
thesis-writing productivity drops to even lower standards. thank you internets!
I agree. I get annoyed when bottle shops advertise ‘premium imported beers’ at obscene prices when it is brewed up the road, or across the border or whatever. A lot of licensed beers are also getting shitter and shitter because the quality control isn’t there. Eg; Stella Artois in Belgium is quite a nice beer, it is rubbish everwhere else.