I'm drinking Ribena. One helluva beverage

+1. Just got into it, really awesome.

Drinking JD and Lemonade atm. Odd, but a really nice taste.

Spotted this: http://www.lastdropdistillers.com/Our-Products/Whisky.aspx in the bottle-o yesterday, priced at $1875. you'd want it to be a decent drop at that price.

Got this a few months ago. Would recommend.

strong one year bump

Drink Guinness.
Forget dinner.

I had a case of James Boag's Pure on the weekend. Very easy drinking, a bit hoppy but not to the level of a Plzener, and doesn't give you a headache in the morning: win-win.

FARKEN BUMP

I've changed over to the dark side recently, much thicker and more enjoyable than other beers imo, plus saves me cash cause for the time i'll drink an old or any other dark beer i'd drink two in that time of normal or pale ale's

I've drank the Grolsch, a LOT better than XXXX Gold...I need to hit up the spirits soon i guess.

Yeah agreed, if you're buying a scotch for that price Grants is probably your best option if you don't want to feel like shit the next day after drinking the whole bottle. There are some nasty Scotch's around the $25 mark.

Yeah McAllister is not bad at all for a sub $30 Scotch...I don't mind JW Red at all but I prefer Grants in that price range.

I've heard Mcallister is ok, and I think its pretty cheap. JW Red isnt too much either is it? 30 bucks a bottle if you can find it on sale?

I recommend that everyone try this and report back to me.



I was surprised to see this decent drop that I had in Bamberg, at McCoppins here in Melbourne.

There's a serious lack of German beer on the market here. I'm hanging for a good dark beer or doppelbock at the moment!



I disagree. There's good lagers and good wheat beers. Hoegarden doesn't rank...sweet water.

Of those big brand wheat beers I'd rank: Franziskaner over Paulaner, then Schofferhofer... which isn't great but not bad.

It's good that you can get various Paulaner's beers here at the moment. Unfortunately they don't have this beast.





That's a discount beer even in Germany. It's not horrible, its just not very good but of course I'd drink it if I had to. We got 24 bottles for 8 euro not including the tax that gets refunded when you bring the bottles back.

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Grants

Whats a good cut-price scotch whiskey? Ballantines any good?

Only the Grolsch is really worthwhile. Tiger is only good when its free with a Singapore Airlines flight from Melbourne to Frankfurt. I tried to do a Booney.

Ok, I have a few beers in the fridge..what to try?

- XXXX Gold, had this the other night and last night...i enjoy it although everyone tells me its shit.

- Grolsch Premium Lager

- Tiger (some asian beer)

- Platinum Blonde

- Bluetongue

What of those would anyone recommend?

The variation in 'low carb' beer is not enough to substantiate it being 'better for you'. I've seen studies that in fact suggest that 'low carb' beer exacerbates your hangover. But generally I don't get hungover so it doesn't matter.

Yeah...there's your problem.

I reckon every time someone has something particularly bad to say about beer their first experience with it has been a 'worst case scenario' kind of thing. Carlton from a can or the first time they try beer it's VB. Try it off tap sometime and I think you'll find it a lot better.

It was in a Carlton Draught can...

Pure Blonde slab looks like a go-er.

my drink of choice with the australian beers, i don't know whats the go with the low carb bs frankly

That's melbourne bitter you're talking about, Bonkers. Carlton's very drinkable.

Pure Blonde is tops for what you pay and one of the better beers on the market, Fredsta. That low carb stuff is a complete load of bullshit though.

Cascades are just as bad imo. Ive heard Pure Blondes are decent?
I still havent had to actually pay for alcohol yet though, people have supplied me thus far but I cant rely on that to keep happening, my best mate is 18 though and so many more are turning 18 these days.

I can't stand any beer. I'd prefer to not drink.

Carlton is fucking terrible. Its as if they took the worst 10% tasting particles in horse piss, took the top 10% out of this 10%, anally re-absorbed this doubly-purified horse piss back into a horse before getting the horse to piss through a filter/siphon made from tightly packed gorilla pubes into the cans which we drink it from. O_o

Beer is so much cheaper thats why ive got to get on it.

Straight jager is good stuff. 48 bucks a bottle though. :(

I wish I drank beer. Would make drinking a lot easier on the wallet.

Bought a bottle of Jose Cuervo Tequila last night and finished it off. Goes down very well IMO.

Yeah Im in that boat, not much of a fan, Carltons and Cascades didn't agree with me and don't bother with the new Kruiser brand beer I had a few of those before the march to Etihad for the Grand Final and they did not sit well with the "Jump for Melbourne Victory's". I didn't mind Coopers though

Im not a massive fan of beer but I need to find one I like because its a whole lot cheaper than everything else, bar goon. Help me out.
What is a beer that doesnt taste like horse piss? The only one ive had thats ok is Heineken but im sure theres better out there. I need a slab or some thing for whats coming up and I only want to spend ~$40.
Pure Blonde? Crown? ??? IDFK

Speaking of Laphroaig, they jsut got some of that at pit. Awesome stuff.

Just drinking Carlton today. Mediocre, but a beer's a beer atm.

Yay for b'day I have really good tequilla and a couple of bottles of Jimmy Small Batch

i want to but my back pocket is still reeling from the grand final, although i'll have to check my balance because i should have got my scholarship today or yesterday... and if i have, scholarship = drinky drinky