Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries), I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was the major appeal.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:39:16PM -0700, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > Rus the news here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH > > DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to > NZ or > > the US if need be for saftey reasons? > > Its not as bad as that. The people in Syria have it far worse! A > number of people have lost their lives, of course, and an incredible > 10,000 or so homes lost, but the community is rallying. > > A friend once described our house as the last one left standing in > Sydney - we're perched on a cliff, overlooking the ocean, some 30+ > metres above sea level (I think we'd survive anything short of total > collapse of the East Antarctic ice sheet. > > > and how's the beer there? that's the question I suspect fam would like > to know > > if they considered Aus? > > Pretty similar to the US, I suspect. We have quite a few > microbreweries now, a good choice of craft ales, a far cry from when I > was a young bloke, when we had a choice of two fairly similarly tasting > lagers. > > What really is excellent (and cheap) are Aussie wines. > > Cheers > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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