Rommie wrote:I always thought of it more as VB down in Melbourne and XXXX further up the coast. Is that true or am I making it up?
Curiously the Aussie beers I've seen most on the international market are Cooper's, and to a lesser extent Toohey's (which was my sister's favorite when she lived over there, in its extra dry variety at least). I think the former is actually a rather less well known beer in Australia itself.
Queensland was usually the XXXX state.
VB in its peak had pretty much most of Australia.
Thats been in decline for some time now.
I used to like VB but now that its changed I'm not really interested.
Especially when its almost as expensive as premium beers.
We can get Coopers here but not the Pale Ale which I like.
I got to drinking that when I had to travel to Adelaide to maintain some of their equipment.
Ah, fun times.
). I've had one or two in the occasional ~5 years since but my stomach will still feel odd after the one beer, though granted that may well just be psychological by this point. Never had an anti-beer stretch like that since.
