You'd think I'd be more familiar with it having been my local brewery for years.

Blurgh. We sell that shit at work, Can't stand it any more. I've got a bottle of 25 year old Chivas but I'm loathe to open it.

I'd be more than happy to take it off your hands, or help you drink it.;)

I'll come round too.

I'll bring some nibbly's

Probably going to save it for a big occasion like my 30th.

Good idea, perhaps a couple of cigars...

A few cigars...and one 'special' cigar... :lol:

you mean, a Monica....:lol:

or



Edited by Joffa: 24/2/2012 08:37:54 PM

One of my biggest gripes with Aussie beers. It's why I can't drink a lot of mainstream lager. Had a couple Carlton Dry's at work once, wanted to throw up everything I had eaten in the last month.

I have a bottle of 12 Y.O Chivas in my room. Dunno when I'm going to get round to opening it.

lol Bill Clinton is gross.

^Something like that.

Yeah. Australian beers (and beers in general these days) are so full of preservatives and foaming agents. And they're what fucks you up the next day and gives you the killer hangovers.

If you're ever in Melbourne, get yourself to Mrs Parma's. Not only do they do amazing Parmas but they have a massive range of Victorian boutique beers, most of them taste AMAZING and they're all free of preservatives and foaming agents so you can drink it all night and wake up with bugger all hangover.

All the preservatives in beers is probably why i feel so sick in the chest (like heartburn but kind of struggling for air too) when i go on a bender like footy trip and a week away for finishing uni.
Its seriously takes about 2-3 days to feel normal again without drinking when it happens too :?

Yeah, that would have something to do with it. I have the same problem after a night on the JD and cokes. Because of all th esalt in the JD and all the sugar in the Coke you get epic heartburn.

Time to stop posting as been enjoying a Draytons Bellevue Shiraz, tasty :)

Football season almost over which means my detox starts the Monday after the GCU-Roar game haha

Detox is for sissies.

I always say the offseason is for Detoxing, but it never happens. Just keeping with tradition, i always say it, but i never do it.

Next time im in Melbourne in July/August, your making me some jagerbombs!

:lol: I'll do more than that :lol:

Currently drinking Currency Creek Vermentino, yum :)

Irrelevant semi-bump. I always take a Zantac or Somac (available OTC from your friendly pharmacist ;) ) before I go out and drink. No matter how much I drink, I always feel fine in the stomach the next morning. Case in point, 2 weeks ago, I drank a litre of vodka before going out (what binge drinking culture) - though to be fair it was Ciroc, and then had multiple shots/drinks out over the course of about 5 hours. I was hella tired the next morning for work, but without a stomach retaliation.

Also, I'm quite partial to any of the beers by the Matilda Bay Brewing Co (e.g. Redback Cristal) and the Burleigh Brewing Co. are starting to produce some good quality brews too.

....I still haven't gotten round to opening that bottle of Chivas in my room that I got from my mate for my 20th back in December, yes the same one that you saw in the background during my Roundtable debut. I need a good reason to open it. :lol:

Ian Crook signed as coach? :P

Nah. I'd have cracked it if we had signed Mehm or some idiot.

Carlton is always messier the day after.

I can't find a beer that I'm really enjoying at the moment. Sick of all the Euro-Lagers at work. And Aussie Beers are pretty shit at the moment.

Move on to cider, if you can get Napoleon it is a lovely drop.

Not big on the cider. Though I do love Monteith's.

Bulmers Blackcurrant I quite enjoy and I don't like Cider generally.

Walked past the BWS in Balmain this afternoon and they're selling slabs of Becks 500ml fully imported beer for the same price as they're selling it at Dan Murphy's.

http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_713476/beck-s-beer-cans-500ml-fully-imported

Anybody had Grolsch? Seen it around, but never tried it. Any good?

Also seen a bit of St. Arnou around. It's an Aussie craft beer with Czech style influence. That any good too if anyone's tried it?

Grolsch is a terrible beer. To call it a beer is an incredible insult to 'beer'.

St Arnou is a very drinkable craft pilsner.

I've been getting onto the spirits a lot more lately because of what the preservatives in beer are doing to my head and pancreas the next day.

Going through my bottles of JD at an alarming rate. YEWWW.

Where is PUI thread??

Bit of a beer drinker myself; not too keen on the mainstream Aussie stuff, but to be honest I haven't had too much of it so maybe I was drinking the wrong stuff. The only Australian beer I like is TED really, but I'd rather something European.

I mainly drink Becks and a few other European beers like Stella and Heineken, Lowenbrau is a bit of a favourite, but I'm starting to look for something a little different. Not too keen on cider, although I haven't had much of it, it's a bit too sweet for me. Maybe I was drinking the wrong cider.

Any recommendations? Maybe even a beer that's a bit less mainstream? I had a Guinness a few weeks ago while I was in an Irish pub and I liked that, but I've been told only to drink it in a pub.

One last thing, it will need to be cheap because I'm a poor uni student!