Today’s cartoon is an homage to the beer of Australia. In America we get Foster’s as pretty much the only import of Australian beers. You know the commercial “Fosters, Australian for Beer.” However, you won’t find it anywhere in Australia and if you ask an Aussie, they will tell you that Fosters is crap they can and market to foreigners (typically “piss” is used in the sentence as well.
Now I am not a beer connoisseur like another in our travel party. I like pilsner and lagers. Don’t like wheat beer, don’t like ales, don’t like Guiness. Hell most of the time a Miller Lite is good enough for me (got to keep my figure you know). The beer whiz in the party thought all Australian beer tasted like piss. Compared to the microbrews all over the United States, it definitely was a much weaker taste. And trust me we went all over. In fact, here is a little taste of what beers I drank.
Tooheys and James Boags (OK I know it is Tasmania not Australia) were probably my favorites. Four X was one my least favorite though it is the most popular beer there.
Sadly there was one Australian Beer that I didn’t get to try… PISS BEER.
From their website:
Aussies have been on the piss, getting pissed, drinking piss, drinking more piss and, most definitely, taking the piss for the past two hundred years. The amazing thing is none of us thought to bottle it earlier. (Too busy getting pissed, probably.)
But in your opinion, how did Fosters compare to the brews you tried?
Funny enough it has been so long since I had Fosters I can’t remember.
It is Australian for piss.
I’m probably no the best judge of beer either. I usually can take it or leave it. If it has a high alcohol volume, I’m gonna be a fan regardless of what it tastes like.
How is the australian ganja? Or are you saving that for another post?
This boy don’t do the ganja.
haha. I like the weak alcohol mainly because then I can drink two over the course of an evening and still be OK to be the wife’s DD.
Wife better not see that one!
she knows
I can’t remember last time I had a Fosters either. Boags is my favourite. Because it is brewed locally here in Launceston, about a kilometre from home, it is always the cheapest which is an important factor for a cheapskate. If I am in Hobart for a visit then Cascade is cheaper than Boags. Coseness to the brewery does seem to affect price. Queensland local beer is called XXXX because Queenslanders can’t spell beer.
Never tried American beer. I always drink Lite beer ‘cos I don’t like the strong flavour of full strength.
P.S. Great cartoon & so true to life.
Yes I really liked the Boags Lite. I didn’t take a picture of that bottle for some reason.
I came home and it was the only thing I could find (other than Fosters) in our party store.
Price for 6 bottles – $13.50
And I can’t say I’ve ever even had an Australian beer. I was always more of a wine cooler guy… I will now cower in the corner and prepare for all of the abuse that’s about to come my way!
Oy boy. You are probably sad the 80′s aren’t around anymore Mr Bartles and Jaymes.
I’m more of a 90′s guy… the music was better!
Not according to my wife.
A mile from your house? So you have it directly piped in?
No not at the moment but Hey it sounds like a great project for the weekend Peter, sorry I mean Binky. OK gotta go now & get some plumbing supplies.
First he needs to unclog his toilet.
Foster’s is real cheap as I recall. I had a friend that drank it because of the price. I don’t drink beer very often and a Coors light does me just fine right along with the pizza. That’s when I like a cold beer.
Have a terrific day.
I’m with you…stick with the light beer. Does me just fine. Though I had pizza tonight and no beer.
I haven’t had a beer in ages, but when I did, I rarely finished it.
WASTER!
When I arrived in Australia it was the dead of winter and all their beer tasted like crap to me. I just plain don’t like beer in the winter. Summer is another thing. We drank VB in Victoria and Boag’s and Cascade in Taz. It all seemed to hit the spot when the weather got hot. Hey save me some bottlecaps, will ya?
VB I forgot to take a picture of that one too.
NOW you say you want Bottle Caps. Tony can probably send you some.
Oh for crying out loud Bearman you drank that piss? You should have come to WA we have real beer . Tsk, tsk I think the bartender was pulling the piss on ya. Those beers are crap.
Well when that is what they have on tap, it is pretty sad.
i was just about to say that loon…for goodness sake bearman i want to clobber your knuckles for generalising “xxxx they love it there”..how dare you! thats a Queenslader crap beer and non one else around australia drinks it! im quite offended by your generalisation… we have some damn good beers, you seem to have picked the beers brewed and marketed for younger women. im still offended at your generalisation!
I went with a beer lover. Trust me, everything on tap in 95% of the bars was the “younger women” beer. Which I happen to love thank you.
Love the toon by the way. So true
Danke
I stick to milkshakes.
I dread to think what will be on the
other side of the wall in this instance
haha. Back to the wombat poop jokes.
I’m never eating or drinking anything at your places!
Good…more for me.
But doesn’t all beer taste like piss?
Sadly yes.
But it’s got great marketing!
Happily no.
I don’t drink much beer nowadays but when I do, I tend to buy Mexican or Indian beer (the Aussie beer on sale in uK tends to be crap like fosters and xxxx)
They don’t export the XXXX here. I think the government bans it because they think it is pornographic.
Love the cartoon, funny. Cannot weigh in on the beer discussion I think it all tastes like piss. Except for Fat Tire before Coors bought it.
If Coor bought Fat Tire, why can’t I get it in Cincinnati. They only sell it west of Indianapolis.
This is piss funny Bearman, well done
Have a great start to your Thursday and
watch out for those weak looking beers
Thanks Andro
The guy with the moustache looks like
lol
that ageing old fart Magnum PI
…and my brother.
Magnum in the family?
Yes…we are all PI’s
Can I borrow your Ferrari?
That surprises me… I would have guessed the exact opposite!
Although many ‘domestic’ light beers seem pretty ‘watery’ to me, too, I guess…
This from the man who lives in the home of Budweiser.
Hahaha…
psst… don’t anger the Clydesdales! They’re pretty big!
I want to try and make my own one day… When I was a young man I got to go to Germany. Man you talking about BEER. After two years there I could drink any of our domestic beers like water. I remember running at 6 in the morning and about to fall out puking my guts out from the beer I had the night before and the corner beer stand that looked like newspaper stands were just opening and had Germans standing in line for a beer… Weizen was my beer of choice over there. Last Fosters I had was a lot stronger then a regular Budweiser.
They still have the micro brewery up there in Ft. Wright Bearman?
Great cartoon by the way.
J-Dotson
Which microbrewery you talking about. I don’t remember one.
But about 10 years ago they opened a Hofbrauhaus near the river. Is that what you are talking about?
I thought Weizen was a type of beer not a brand. Wheat beer…yuck.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, but I think Piss Beer is probably bottled by Anheiser Busch.
Oh, never did enjoy Fosters. doesn’t keep me from wishing to spend time in australia though.
Great cartoon Bearman
Yes…nothing should keep you from wanting to go there.
Note to self….Always order beer in the bottle when in Australia…
Good idea
Paulaner of Munich, Germany is my favorite beer. It is a hefeweizen bier. The darker the better
Can’t stand most American beers. It taste like bitter crap in a can.. or bottle.
I didn’t know I had been had when I drank a Foster’s and thought I had a real good Aussie beer. Dang :-/
Paulaner is one of the few wheat beers I can stand. That is on the lighter side.
Oh, you like Paulaner? Now we are one step closer to being friends
Watch out, that Roo can punch!
But he has short arms.
Bearman.
How much piss do you drink a day? You must down a lot to be able to draw a comparison.
Average a beer a day….I didn’t get wasted.
from the comments so far, I seem to be the only one who can put hand on heart and say I’ve never drunk piss (mine or anyone else’s) and so can’t draw any comparison with aussie beer
damn, Jaydee beat me by 5minutes – should have pressed that Post Comment button straight away instead of going for a piss first !
Jaydee is quick that way.
So you haven’t ever changed a baby? I don’t know how you avoid getting sprayed at least once.
They’re all mostly light/middies you PUNCE!!
I KNOW. I am saying 90% of what was on tap was this.
<<< hates beer. I prefer tequila. Or cognac. Or Scotch. Hahn is not so bad, but I am not one for light beers. Give me German black lager instead.
The closest I come to liking a light beer is Tequiza. That has more to do with the tequila in it than the cerveza.
Hates beer but if she is going to drink it will go all the way.
I prefer Pastis. Yayyy.
Love this cartoon, Bearman.
Thanks Cha. Never had Pastis
I’m lovin’ all these interesting travel notes, Bearman. ..(hic)..
Thanks Mark!
At least it’s from a kangaroo, I guess.
Even smellier I think.
I’m not sure about the piss content in Australian beer, but I have heard that’s what makes up 75% of what’s in a Corona. Sadly, this does not prevent me from enjoying a cold Corona on a hot sunny day.
Ugh. I believe the piss in that one. I can’t drink Corona. No wonder people have to put a lime in it.