The only thing that surprises me about that is that it’s not made right there in the United States! I guess it’s so they can claim it is “imported”.
Foster’s brews beer in Australia, Canada, Vietnam, China, Fiji, the UK (I’m reasonably sure), and that’s just the places I know about (their websites seemed to be down or under construction when I googled it). Indeed, my trip along the Mekong River only seemed picturesque until an ugly Foster’s Brewery hove into view.
In Asia especially, I noticed that the practice of brewing foreign beers under licence is quite widespread. Many of the local beers in the region will have breweries in several countries (Tiger, San Miguel, etc do this), and locally produced European brands like Heineken and Carlsberg are common. Australia itself seems unusual in that we don’t seem to do this. If you wish to drink a foreign beer here, you must buy the expensive, imported version from the home country. The local breweries appear to produce local brands exclusively.
Yep. Around 50 court cases worldwide on the use of the name and various derivations. I believe in the UK both breweries can use the names; in other countries Bud?jovický Budvar has generally prevailed - e.g. winning in Germany in May and South Korea and Taiwan in June.
The Foster’s we get in the UK (at least the stuff in cans) is brewed by Scottish & Newcastle in (I believe) Edinburgh… just about as far from Australia as you can get.
The most popular “British” lager here is probably Carling. In London, most pubs have three or four lagers on tap (invariably Stella Artois, usually Carling, maybe Grolsch or Kronenbourg) and one or two bitters – London Pride being a popular one.
I’m going to have to stop writing about beer now, as I still have the remnants of a hangover
Well, I was trying to say: what the Native beer connoisseurs like.
Aha! Peanuthead’s link link’s page guided me to the Beer Hunter and his list of the 10 best American beers: http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-001744.html
Notice the non-mention of Sam Adams on that list either!
As you can see, none of the watered down popular brands was mentioned. Yes, I should have made the point that I wanted more quality rather than quantity (popularity) sorry.
I am trying to find lists, like the beer hunter one, from other countries.
Officially, this is my most shameful show of ignorance in this board!
Anyway, without this board I would have remained so!
Thank you Irish girl! I deserve that! May I have another please?
Back for a moment to popular = not so good beers: TheLoadedDog I noticed that there is XX (Dos Equis) in Mexico, did somebody in Australia decided to feel superior by releasing XXXX?
They probably do, but I honestly have not come across it. Even the fine restaurants I’ve been to generally served Cass. Let me tell you, that is the last thing you need when seated cross-legged for two hours.
TLD, you’re list shows a bit of an east coast bias. You left out a few other:
Mainstream Beers:
Southwark
Swan (is that still made)
Premium Beers:
Coopers (one of my favourites).
Boag’s
For a reasonably complete list of Australian Breweries see here.
For a description of the range of Australian Beers see here.
I can’t find a list of market share of the various Australian beers but the biggest is definitely VB. The type of beer consumed tends to be very dependent on what State you are in (with the exception of VB) which is consumed all around the country.
My German friend, at home, in her neighborhood pub, always drinks German beers we Yanks have never heard of. But she says that, at the clubs, you can always find Heineken, Corona (Mexican is very chic over there, it seems … lots of Mexican restaurants opening up, etc.), and, lately, the liquor-company brews (Smirnoff Ice, etc.).
Of course, the funny thing was her pointing at a very old Budweiser sign at a bar here in the U.S. and saying, “That’s a really good beer…,” not realizing it wasn’t the same as what’s called Budweiser over there.
A friend from Australia once said the proper slogan is: “Foster’s–it’s Australian for Bud.”
