I'm predominantly a wine drinker but on a hot day I do enjoy the occasional beer.
I like the Great Northern because its a pilsener type of brew, not too heavy.
I also enjoy the Coopers 3.5% lighter beer.
XXXX Gold would be my next choice.
The other beer that I like is Prickly Moses Otway Light.

I'm very partial to 'Three Sheets' Pale Ale from Lord Nelson Brewery in Sydney.

A very close second comes Bridge Road Brewery's 'Pale Ale' from Beechworth N E Vic.


I can taste one coming my way in about 5 minutes.

I'm not much of a drinker but don't mind a 150 Lashes Pale Ale, or a Coopers Green or Orange once in a while. If we took Pale Ale out of the equation my choice would be Great Northern.

Real ale is probably the only thing I miss about the UK.

Not a big beer drinker so 2, 30 can cartons of XXXX from Dan Murphy's today for $87 will last

Possum3 wrote:

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Personally, Bundaberg Ginger Beer is my choice - As a person who is a "non-drinker" I believe all these surveys and such are a deceptive form of marketing.

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 Your honesty is to be commended.

The breweries actually *buy* meaning pay a lease on any beer tap in most pubs. The result of this warped figures as when any punter walks into a pub for a beer they are served what is available and not what might be classed as a good beer.

Try drinking in a microbrewery pub where proper beers are served.

 

Bobdown wrote:

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Only one beer..........Bush chooks 

 

  

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 Too right mate. I couldn't believe it when I saw xxxx gold at number three.

I've never really been a fan of beer even when, as a teenager, I pretended to like it.

Now a good cider is a whole different ball game.

On our recent 10 week trip around Qld I was surprised to see just how much Great Northern seems to have taken over from XXXX as the main beer up that way. I drink Great Northern Super Crisp anyhow so it didnt really worry me.  My favourite beer is Carling Black Label from South Africa and although I have found a few places where I can buy Castle Lager here I havent been able to find Carling. What a pleasant surprise we actually came across a South African restaurant on the waterfront in Hervey Bay and I got my favourite peri peri chicken along with a Black Label. I am not South African but having lived in both Mozambique and South Africa for over 3 years I really developed a taste for the beer (and the food). Probably got hooked on their prices as well a carton of 500ml cans would only cost me arond $A20 - the government in this country is absolutely fleecing people with their taxes on alcohol. We also lived in the Karratha for 2 years back in the late 70s when we first got married I can remember quite a few hangovers as the result of consuming too much Emu Lager (wasnt much else to do up there in those days)...

BB

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-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Monday 2nd of January 2023 09:40:39 AM

Tony Bev wrote:

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For me, the best beer in 2022 was

Carlton Mid

Purchased a carton in early January 2022, and then a second carton in late December 2022

So two cartons of beer in that year

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 Doing better than us Tony, I think we only bought one carton during past 12 months, don't drink much.

The OP gave us the best selling beers for 2022

Here is a link to the best craft beers in Australia for 2022 judged by aroma taste and presentation in general

https://manofmany.com/lifestyle/drinks/gabs-hottest-100-craft-beers-2022

Judged by GABS

Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular.

-- Edited by Ivan 01 on Monday 2nd of January 2023 10:40:09 PM

Craig1 wrote:

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M B C, will not respond to any phone call, text or email, truly a test of " take you money and we do not care "

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 Hi Craig,

Those brewing notes were a good indication that they were having big problems in their brewery.

if they tipped most of the brews down the sink then that just might indicate the beginning of the end.

Like any business there is a fine line between staying afloat and going down the sink, pardon the pun.

If they are still taking money for sales and not supplying then there in is another problem.

With reference to the GABS result it is great for the Aussie brewing industry that 100 beers could be included.

I did note that the only mega brewery that had beers on the list was Coopers. That says something.

Unfortunately when the mega breweries *aquire* a popular craft beer the brewing is immediately taken out of the hands of the experienced brewers and the procedure becomes controlled by *bean counters*
The beer is brewed to a price from that day on.
Your mention of Little Creatures is a classic example of a really great Australian beer being dumbed down so far in the hands of LN and subsequently Kirin that it is a very poor example of its original style.
The same is for Fat Yak in the hands of CUB from memory. Last time I tried it, it was terrible.

With the brewing notes in your link above it appears that the brewing process was at fault as t(e comments were mainly to tip beers down the sink.
I would hope that they werent full volume batches as the cost could be enormous to have to tip them out.
A wild infection is usually the cause of tipping it down the drain.