The best beer in cans.

Terry mate you know that any beer somebody else gives you is the best beer.

Carlton Mid is ok. Hate VB Green but VB Gold isn't bad. Don't go much on that liquid Qld condom brand either.

Hahn Light if I'm driving.

Coopers Lager for me.
It disappeared from cans for a while, but is now back in production.
Yea!
Normally drink beer out of glass stubbies, but while away camping I take and drink from cans.

Coopers Dr Tims is also OK. It is supposed to be the same recipe as Pale Ale but as it tastes a bit different out of the can Coopers named it after the Brewer.

Thanks Rockape, more to the point it is about a beer that still has a refreshing taste even if you are on your 9th or 10th beer as Redback does for me. I used to drink Carlton midstrength however find it tasteless after a few. At Dan Murphys there are too many choices and I probably wouldn't finish before my next trip in May.

Sludgie

There is only one beer, and that's the beer thats right for you, Cascade Bitter, made from fresh Tassie grown hops.
baz

The only good canned beer is a COLD one !! But lately i like XXXX GOLD!! Queenslanders call it XXXX because they can't spell Beer!! Michael :)

Michael,
I can spell xxxx but gold is a bit of a problem. It just takes me a while but I get there in the end.

I think NSW and Qld hold the record for the worst Australian beers.

The Qld one was Macs from Rocky and the NSW one was Millers.

Millers were coal ship owners and I am sure they would unload coal one way and load beer the other sloshing around in the hold.

Here you go Australias current worst beers. This should start world war 3.

Victoria Bitter 571 48.10%
Hahn Ice 56 4.72%
Southwark Pale Ale 14 1.18%
Beez Neez(Honey Beer 36 3.03%
Carlton Draught 19 1.60%
Tooheys Red 161 13.56%
Fosters Lager 132 11.12%
Empire 29 2.44%
Sterling 22 1.85%
Other... 147 12.38%.

RA! You may be right about the status of crap beers! I used to like VB till a few years ago, started to give me headaches if i went to bed with only a small amount in my system. I started to drink Tooheys RED and then stumbled across XXXX! XXXX is only one standard drink with a full flavour!! Tooheys Gold is not bad also. I bought a bottle of DA a while back, it bought back some memories!! Im not a big drinker so any beer in small doses is OK for me.! regards Michael.

Well Rockape, the absolute worst beer ever must surely have been Springfield. A small brewery in South Australia, long since gone.


It was said...... "What beer is like making love in a canoe?"


Answer..... "Springfield, because it is f*****g near water"! LOL

I have to say a schooner of really cold XXXX gold on tap is hard to beat on a hot day. I spend a bit of time in Dubbo and a huge amount of people drink XXXX gold cans and when they hit the local pub or club, XXXX Gold draught is the go! Michael

Micheal,
when I was a tad younger we were able to buy a 2 gallon timber keg of xxxx. They were really good as long as you didn't hit your thumb when you spiked them. We even had our own tap.

That beer always tasted the best.

Can tell some good stories about truck drivers and forkies that worked at breweries. God looks after drunks and Brewery workers I can tell you.

And you can get a 30 pack for a reasonable price in the bigger centres. I'll buy whichever is the cheapest at the time. Once as a Queenslander I was a diehard XXXX drinker but now like most Australians I don't mind a flavour change once in a while.
And the worst? PNG's SP. "Be specific - drink South Pacific." I once flew down from Bamaga on a DC3 which had just done a PNG trip and the only beer they had was SP. Or so they said, they were probably trying to get rid of it and knew we'd drink it rather than go without.

Beer is for foreplay

Bundy Red Bottle - Coke Zero cans, mixed to your preference

Can often end up a bit messy but thats half the fun

go the xxxx and follow up with Bundy and dry just to give the night a final farewell, and I am a west Aussie. I have been told I have no taste in drink preferences, or foot ball teams.

Yep, I'd go along with that. Any GOOD beer comes in glass and I will put up with the extra weight to have a good drop.

Boags, Millers Draught, Carlton Cold.

VB? Is that actually classed as beer?? lol

Only one worse is Emu Export, tastes like battery acid mixed with drain cleaner.

Cheers
Pop

Yeah I have to agree.

As said good beer comes in stubbies West End Draught, Carlton Cold, if you have space to cart it in you have space to cart the empties out.
I've seen more cans rub through than I've seen stubbies busted.

Cheers
Graham

I,too,prefer beer from a stubbie, & certainly dont compromise my
preferences by drinking cans on the road..no matter what the
perceived advantages.
I'm not that fussy, but gravitate to Melbourne Bitter or Coopers
Pale Ale.
cheers....hic....oldbaz.

Hi Slime,
At $54.00 per slab at Dan Murphys it is one of the best value as the cans are full strength and 500ml.

After much, self funded, study I changed my beer of choice to VB green, in cans.

The reasons are - I can drink it if it's not cold, cans won't break where we go, I can crush the cans to bring back and when we're away the most common choice of beers for sale are VB super or XXXX Gold.
I can't drink the Gold without getting a headache, so it's VB.

The new VB is great. 6 cans at night and I feel great in the morning (currently in full training for a few rounds in Brophy's tent at Birdsville in September, so it's 6 VB a night whether I want them, or not).

Hoo roo,
Steve

Good point. I wouldn't have thought of the packaging.

When in Australia drink Australian Beer. So that rules out any XXXX, Tooheys, Carlton, (VB, Fosters, Mid Strengh, Boags, Cascade, Tooths, Powers)etc.
XXXX = JAPANESE OWNED
CARLTON = SOUTH AFRICAN OWNED
Looks like you have to drink Coopers or a boutique beer.
BUT I hate to suggest it, Woolworths (& probably Coles) now own their own Australian Breweries and their house brand beers are Australian.
Me as an ex Castlemaine Tooheys and CUB employee will now drink only two types of beer: That which is offered free by a fellow camper and one of the Woolworths beers, when on special.
Stay well & stay safe
PeterM

Ouch, now that hurts Ol' Bunky. It is the only way to keep my scrounging mates from drinking my beer. I suppose your a XXXX or South Australian drinker then and haven't enjoyed the taste of a refreshing wheat beer :)
Sludgie

I like the Hieneken 5 litre can LOL

Cheers

Anthony