Mindless bollocks

[scumdog]

Stout and raspberry is lovely, they should feed babies on it. Used to get Vita-stout up at the Rimutaka Tavern, haven't seen that for a while.
My formative drinking years were spent at the Rimutaka, they used to serve spirits and mixer by the jugful, that is, 10 nips of whatever and fillup with the mixer. You could get pretty pissed, pretty quick. Cheap, too. used to be $2.50 for a jug of bacardi and coke

My mate in the 70's told me to go to the bar-maid and ask for a "portergaf", I thought he was setting me up for a thick-ear but she came back with a stout & raspberry

I use to drink Bavarian Bitter back then, mainly because it only cost $1.96 for a half dozen, - proper bottles, not those kiddy-size "stubbies" which are generally the dearest way to buy beer if you calculate it out.

[MikeL]

Yeah,our first ''cans'' were steel - you had to carry around an opener.

And on more than one occasion out and about when the opener was mislaid I had to get into the can with whatever was available - hammer and chisel one time I recall. Ended up losing most of the contents...
And you could definitely taste the steel.

[Mongoose]

And on more than one occasion out and about when the opener was mislaid I had to get into the can with whatever was available - hammer and chisel one time I recall. Ended up losing most of the contents...
And you could definitely taste the steel.

The opener ALWAYS hid under the last can

[Hooks]

My mate in the 70's told me to go to the bar-maid and ask for a "portergaf", I thought he was setting me up for a thick-ear but she came back with a stout & raspberry

I use to drink Bavarian Bitter back then, mainly because it only cost $1.96 for a half dozen, - proper bottles, not those kiddy-size "stubbies" which are generally the dearest way to buy beer if you calculate it out.

Here's one for ya then ... Bavarian Bitter was a failure in aukland .... it just couldn't get a grip in the market ..... So ...... The brewery relabelled it called it Lion Red and the rest as they say is history !! ....

[Hooks]

Myself, I drink VB or Fosters ...mainly because I like the taste but also because they come in larger stubbies for the same price ... 375ml fits nicely in one swallow !! .....

[Hitcher]

People who claim to be able to distinguish different beers by taste really amuse me. At various social club dos over the years, when it has been my turn to organise things, I have done blind beer tastings -- a selection of beers, pre-poured into those wee plastic wine tasting glasses, and numbered. People have to match the numbers with the names on offer. You get the idea.

The selection usually includes Tui, Waikato, sometimes Lion Brown and Lion Red (to prove a point), Heineken, Stella, Black Mac, Speights Old Dark, and sometimes something a bit exotic, like Boddingtons or Monteiths Summer Ale, or a wheat beer.

To cut short what could be a very long story, beer drinkers are piss poor at identifying beer on olfactory senses. Some people even struggle to tell black beer from lager! Go figure. The difference between brown beers is lost on nearly everybody. The winner of one event, by a clear margin, was a temp PA who had been in New Zealand for less than six weeks and had never before tasted most of the beers on offer. Obviously she was a better guesser than most...

[vifferman]

Raspberry? we used to mix equal parts vodka,ouzo(sp?) and raspberry soft drink...3 bottles of serious stuff.

Aha! The "Jellybean" !

[Eddieb]

You could also get cider in the big beer bottles....still partial to a cider I am.Raspberry? we used to mix equal parts vodka,ouzo(sp?) and raspberry soft drink...

3 parts cider, 1 part lager, with raspberry to top it off.

Snakebite, favorite of kiwi's on O.E. all over London.

They still sell cider in the large bottles in Ireland. It's the most popular way to buy it among the more 'established' drinkers there.

[MikeL]

People who claim to be able to distinguish different beers by taste really amuse me. At various social club dos over the years, when it has been my turn to organise things, I have done blind beer tastings -- a selection of beers, pre-poured into those wee plastic wine tasting glasses, and numbered. People have to match the numbers with the names on offer. You get the idea.

After 2 or 3 bottles of Heineken or Stella I serve my guests my home brew. Noone notices. Or at least they're too polite to say...
Anyway, they keep drinking it.
One perceptive guest (a German) did remark that he particularly enjoyed the yeasty taste - back home he would have had to pay a premium to buy a beer with that characteristic.

About $9-$10 at PaknSave for a can of Cooper's or Geordie's, 1 kg of sugar whatever that costs, and I get around 22 litres (3 doz bottles) of very quaffable beer, at about 30c a bottle.

When I go to a pub and pay $6 for a Stella I force myself to believe that it is 20 times as good.

It's the advertising, you see.

[greenhorn]

People who claim to be able to distinguish different beers by taste really amuse me. At various social club dos over the years, when it has been my turn to organise things, I have done blind beer tastings -- a selection of beers, pre-poured into those wee plastic wine tasting glasses, and numbered. People have to match the numbers with the names on offer. You get the idea.

The selection usually includes Tui, Waikato, sometimes Lion Brown and Lion Red (to prove a point), Heineken, Stella, Black Mac, Speights Old Dark, and sometimes something a bit exotic, like Boddingtons or Monteiths Summer Ale, or a wheat beer.

To cut short what could be a very long story, beer drinkers are piss poor at identifying beer on olfactory senses. Some people even struggle to tell black beer from lager! Go figure. The difference between brown beers is lost on nearly everybody. The winner of one event, by a clear margin, was a temp PA who had been in New Zealand for less than six weeks and had never before tasted most of the beers on offer. Obviously she was a better guesser than most...

We did a similar test a few years back with pretty much the same results. Although there was one beer that could allways be identified not through taste but by smell... Anyone remember a beer called Joseph Khutze? Khootz? something like that... One smell and almost everyone could identify it. We all agreed it smelt like poo and seriously it did have a faint odour of.. well.. poo. Im sure someone will read this and confirm. Perhaps its why we no longer have it.
Actually it was around during the mid to late 80's. I remember everyone drinking it at the first Rugby world cup.

[Mongoose]

We did a similar test a few years back with pretty much the same results. Although there was one beer that could allways be identified not through taste but by smell... Anyone remember a beer called Joseph Khutze? Khootz? something like that... One smell and almost everyone could identify it. We all agreed it smelt like poo and seriously it did have a faint odour of.. well.. poo. Im sure someone will read this and confirm. Perhaps its why we no longer have it.
Actually it was around during the mid to late 80's. I remember everyone drinking it at the first Rugby world cup.

While it may have had that smell to some peoples noses it was also a good larger, drink large quatities of it and wake up feeling good as gold in the morning(or so I am told ) much like German largers.