I just saw one of those (admittedly amusing) commercials for “Foster’s … Australian for beer.” I have been told that, in Australia, Foster’s … is really the crappy beer. In a similar vein, I am told that Corona is the crappy beer, and Dos Equis.
Anybody want to weigh in on this one?
Fosters is horse piss. So are most American beers. Corona is pure evil, Dos Equis is OK, but a bit weak. When in Mexico, drink Bohemia.
The best beers known to man are Grolsch pilsner, Warsteiner, Murphy’s Irish Stout and, the best of them all, Westvleteren Abt.
Done.
Coldfire we’ve had this conversation before. Murphy’s Irish Stout :rolleyes:
Fosters export isn’t that bad but the Aussies don’t drink it a lot.
Sam Adams (really cold) is very good beer. Labatt is really nice aswell but Guinness is the king of all(has to be drank in a old Irish bar to get the taste just right)
Forgot to say that Corona is absolute muck. We had a phase here in Ireland during the 90’s where every gobshite in the country who wanted to look “cool” drank the stuff from a bottle with a piece of lime in the neck :rolleyes:
Thankfully that’s all over now. But now it’s vodka+redbull.
I’m not saying I’d spit in a pint o’Guinness, I’m just saying that Murphy’s wins it by a milllimeter. Ya Dubliner 
This beer drinking newbie likes:
In a Bottle:
Sam Smith’s Pale Ale
Usher’s Ruby Ale (one of their Vintage ales collection)
Budweiser Budvar
From a Barrel:
Coniston Bluebird
Dent Aviator
Bass (yes, it’s a mass produced beer, but it’s good when kept well. Perfect partner to fish and chips)
Either bottle or tap:
Tanglefoot from the Badger Brewery
Hopback Summer Lightning
Jennings’ Sneck Lifter
Australians that I know say that Fosters is indeed piss, and, of the beers they export, they themselves drink Castlemaine XXXX.
See toxic custard for an Australian food and drink Q and A.
A lot of Aussies drink Tooheys beer, usually Tooheys New, and a huge amount of British backpackers also drink it while in Australia!
I will admit that Grolsch is a fine and tasty beer! (and it supports my dutch heritage) but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to Vancouver Island Brewery’s Herminnator. A tasty Ice Boch that is produced only in the winter. At 9.5% it is smooth and sultry. A dark and tasty beer if ever there was one.
Come on over to my place later this year and we can drink Herminnators through the cool yet bright days and settle in for some tasty Rum Nogs and/or Glug (picture an umlat over that u in Glug).
For really horrible beer, I’d say Cruze Campo from Spain. I used to like Courage, but tastes change. Fosters tastes ok - dunno about any other Ozzie brew. Mostly, these days I drink Millers, mainly because it’s available.
I have a neighbor who makes a great homebrew. Pity no commercial brewer duplicates it.
As much as it hurts me to do this to a beer thread, I’ve gotta send this to IMHO. I’ll go cry in my beer now.
Oh Unc…so sorry.
And am I gonna get shot if I admit I like Corona and Killian’s? ducks
Amen! I love Spain with all my heart and I wish I were there right now, but it has yet to produce a drinkable brew. Estrella Galicia is probably the best of the bunch, but that’s not saying a whole lot.
I must admit that I kinda like Corona with lime under certain circumstances – it’s really the perfect clubbing beer, easy to swallow and thirst-quenching. But if we’re talking sit-down drinking it’s gotta be something dark and complex … Red Seal Ale, or Young’s Oatmeal Stout, or Old Peculier, or … um, Murphy’s. (Sorry yojimbo, I know that’s horribly ungrateful after all the pints you and your fellow Dubliners bought me, but it had to be said.)
Tansu
If it’s bottled beer then try out
Old Speckled Hen
Bishops Tipple
Black Sheep
Sam Smith’s is brewed only a few miles from me - try the Taddy Porter and the Brown Ale
As for beer on tap Tetleys is too variable but find a good outlet and it is excellent.
John Smiths is more stable when it travels so it varies less.Its ok but does not reach the standard of well kept Tetleys.
In the lager beer world Grolsch is fine stuff and I rather like Becks - both are better than Holsten Pils.
Pelican is ok but you don’t see much around.
Here is a surpriser - check out the Sainsbury supermarket own brands - really it’s not bad at all.
As for horrible stuff. I used to think that Brickwoods beer sold around Hampshire was poor but I was unlucky enough to oreder a pint in a revamped trndy local.All the mates I was with got themselves bottled lager so I should have picked this up as a warning sign since they are conscientious bitter drinkers. When I ordered ‘a pint of best bitter’ and the barstaff looked surprised like it was unusual I just knew I’d made a major blunder.
Throughout a dedicated career of beer sampling and despite the lows I never found a pint I had to leave - until then.
Whatever you do, if you see a Mansfield sign on a pub, walk on by.
Drink too much and the bottom falls out of your world - Drink Mansfield and the world…
Gotta go with the Brown. Remember kids, It’s good for you!
Just stay away from the surfboards;)
When I’m not able to get a proper pint (and in Chicago that’s pretty often), I go with Newcastle Brown Ale, a good Oktoberfest Beer, or in the summer -Goose Island Summertime Kölsch Beer. It is a wonderful refreshing beer that always brings back memories of Fasching (hopefully I’ll be in Cologne in Feb 2001- any dopers there?
I drink beer very infrequently and never more than 2 or three servings at most. But when I do, I enjoy Sam Adams Seasonal ales as well as Chimay and a few Belgian beers who’s names I cannot think of right now.
My wife’s family is half Ozzie, and when we visited them they gave me Toohey’s (New, Red, Blue, Old, etc) and it was good stuff. I asked about Foster’s, which I always thought had a metalic tang, and they basically said that was for export. No one there drank it.
Corona - this stuff bother’s me because in a given six pack the bottles will all be filled to different levels. I see a lot of food processing plants, and that level of inconsistancy generally indicates a lack of QA, which in food products is just scary. If it were a small brewery, it would be more OK, almost expected in fact. Maybe even quaint. Corona produces huge buttloads of beer though, and that means it is just a lack of effort. It makes me think of roaches and gunk (a mix of dirt, oil, bacteria, etc.) falling off of generally filthy machines into open bottles right before they are filled and capped. Ick!
(This is just me. I have never seen their plant or anything that would indicate any of this other than the bottle level thing. )
I don’t care how many beer threads are started. It’s one of my favorite subjects.
Coldfire, I agree with you on the Warsteiner. If we were doing a beer rating by country, I’d have to put Germany at the top of the list. My favorite beers, in order, are:
Warsteiner
Bitberger
Spaaten (sp?)
'most anything Czechoslovakian
'most anything Belgian
Assorted good quality American microbrew beers, my favorites changing on a month-to-month basis.
Who has been to Munich and powered a few gallons of good German tap beer? It’s a goal of mine to do this someday before I’m too old to chug.
I liked Corona until I read your post Engineer Don… now I am going to check the levels in the bottles when I go to the liquor store. I may have to stick with the Molsens or Moosehead, and yes I AM CANADIAN! 
Australians tend to drink their state’s beer - In Victoria, it’s Victoria Bitter or Carlton Cold; in New South Wales, it’s Tooheys; in Queensland, it’s XXXX; I think they still make Swan Lager in WA (although I might be living in the 80’s ). You’ll generally only drink Fosters at a party when there’s nothing else to drink. As to why it’s available at parties, I have no idea, except that it’s kind of bland and generic, so it shouldn’t upset anyone too much.
HenrySpencer
Kicking myself. The best beer IMHO is Tiger beer from Malaysia which I first feel in love with over there but it is now sold in my local off-licence. It is the smoothest think you can drink.
I can’t believe I forgot to mention it.
btw Coldie and Duke I’ll buy 2 crates of it for the house and the off-licence is close so we can restock when needed