NOT bloody likely!! This thread has become an independent entity of its originator, has become a cultural and comedic past-time that transcends political conspiracies and international borders, has a lifeforce much greater than any individual and is too darned BIG to be stopped...even the armies of the world (perhaps even the universe)are poweless against it now.
| starkers... legislation requires that all beers available for sale in Oz are labelled with alc/vol...whether local or imported. |
Yes, I knew that...but my question related to how the beer alcohol content was being measured, as some mistakenly do so by the 'percentage/proof' method and others by alcoholic volume, which is correct and totally different strength-wise. Alcohol volume equates to the entire amount of alcohol content per brew, whereas alcohol percentage or 'proof' is the quantity of alcohol per mil or ounce, whatever....if beer weighed in at 33 to 45 proof, it'd rot shoe leather and pickle yer socks as well as your liver. Actually, my grandfather used to drink a viscious drop of cider (Cider Royale) that came in around 120 proof and was supposed to be drunk only in nips....now a 'pint' of
'that' would pickle the floorboards you're standing on as well.
| I did get sick as a dog when I was 16 on home brew reportedly over 11 .. |
So why d'ya wait so long? My first time legless was around 12 or 13 when some mates and I found a carton of 4 x 8 pint cans of scrumpy (cider, for the uneducated outside of England's South) and we got well 'n truly stuck into it....and yes, it actually fell off the back of a truck The next 4 or 5 days afterwards were much of a blur and I was ill, I mean really ill, which my parents thought punishment enough....not that I agreed, having to have
4 days off school to recover.
| Pshaw! A good German Bock beer still cant be beat (yeast dies at the 12% level that is why you cant get higher Alcohol content in your beer). |
Maybe they can't be beaten, but they'd have some serious competition in some of the potently nasty boutique stuff I sampled over the years. Geez, looking back on it, I'm glad I no longer partake....so sorry about that, Dr Guy, no palate pleasers here, as I brew my own no more.
| It never ceases to amaze me how Australians to a man are familiar with the taste of cat's piss. Must be that unique Australian culture... |
Well we wouldn't be familiar (with cat's piss) if Pommie brewers didn't export it here, and then for us to have ex-patriates serve it up when it's their 'shout' at the pub is unforgivable. Hence, the unique Aussie culture has become that Pommies are 'sent to coventry' while at the pub, unless of course they learn the error of their ways and actually drink/shout 'real' beer.
Actually, when I lived over there, I quite enjoyed a pint or 6 of Whitbread Tankard, Newcastle Brown, John Bull Best Bitter, etc, etc, etc...but oh, this rivalry between we Aussies and the Brits, wouldn't be without it.
