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Threat to Oz beer
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It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! — Tony Bailey Mercury World Travel Mercury Travel Books
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It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror!
Any beer under 5% is for children and the elderly! Or Americans. Although I’ll admit to downing a few Hahn Lites…..
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what’s your source mate – the smh.com.au makes no mention of it that i can see
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! — Tony Bailey Mercury World Travel Mercury Travel Books
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what’s your source mate – the smh.com.au makes no mention of it that i can see
I saw it here: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4690170%255E421,00.html Michelle – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! — Tony Bailey Mercury World Travel Mercury Travel Books
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Whilst undoubtedly under the effects of alcohol, Raffi Balmanoukian It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! Any beer under 5% is for children and the elderly! Or Americans. Although I’ll admit to downing a few Hahn Lites…..
Hahn Premium Light and Cascade Premium Light are almost worth drinking purely for the taste – they are that good that you *might* *almost* drink them when you don’t have to worry about your BAC. Almost…… ===== Dave There are 10 types of people – those who understand binary and those who don’t.
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It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! Any beer under 5% is for children and the elderly! Or Americans.
Ha ha, American’s are lightweights!!! I’m off to USA next year to see a mate who’s doing a college course out there. Can’t wait to drink all those bloody frat boys under the table!!
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Any beer under 5% is for children and the elderly! Or Americans. Ha ha, American’s are lightweights!!! I’m off to USA next year to see a mate who’s doing a college course out there. Can’t wait to drink all those bloody frat boys under the table!!
American beer is like making love in a canoe…f*cking pretty close to water. I love it when the sepps come up here (one bartender client tells Americans that Yank beer has to be purchased in American dollars…at par. It’s astounding how many just nod and hand over the greenbacks…). Big bikies will go into the pub bragging about how much beer they can drink…inevitably some 10-stone frostback will put them under the table. Have fun!
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Hahn Premium Light and Cascade Premium Light are almost worth drinking purely for the taste – they are that good that you *might* *almost* drink them when you don’t have to worry about your BAC. Almost……
I was thrilled and a little homesick to find Moose Juice (Moosehead beer) in a speciality store in Glenelg (at at extortionate price). It’s brewed in Nova Scotia, so it’s just a local drop for us, but it’s magnificent stuff. I had to ask the proprietor, "who drinks it over here?" Answer: "You f*cking Canadians."
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It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! what’s your source mate – the smh.com.au makes no mention of it that i can see
It was reported on the ABC yesterday. miguel — Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu New mini photo-feature: Life in DC: http://travel.u.nu/dc/
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what’s your source mate – the smh.com.au makes no mention of it that i can see I saw it here: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4690170%255E421,00.html Michelle
Worst thing to happen to Australian brewing since Alan Bond!
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If you pissheads drink beer only for it’s alcoholic content, hy bother – why not just guzzle straight grain alxcohol with some sort of fizzy shit to cloak the taste? Beer isn’t about killing as many brain cells as you can in the shortest possible time. This bevvy is much more subtle than that, be it light or king hit. Actually most of the more sophisticated brews these days are much lower in pure alcohol. Besides the average ocker couldn’t tell the difference between 4.9 and 4.7. They’re fingers don’t have decimal point options. david. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is being widely reported in news here today that, in order to keep prices the same due to increased excise, several breweries are planning to reduce the alcohol content of beer from 4.9% to 4.7% – shock horror! — Tony Bailey Mercury World Travel Mercury Travel Books
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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4690170%255E421,00.html "The move comes as the cost of the most popular slabs of beer hover around $30, and follows almost a decade of steadily-rising prices." Odd comment. Nearly all beer that I see costs about $22 a slab.
In my slide lectures, I juxtapose Australian priorities, as evidenced by the size of headlines. "New York in Chaos" or something similar on September 12 in around 2" headlines. A couple months before, "Beer Prices Rise" in the Adelaide Advertiser, twice the size and above the fold…
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Whilst undoubtedly under the effects of alcohol, Craig Welch http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4690170%255E421,00.html "The move comes as the cost of the most popular slabs of beer hover around $30, and follows almost a decade of steadily-rising prices." Odd comment. Nearly all beer that I see costs about $22 a slab.
Around $30 in Sydney, depending on whether there are 24, 28 or 30 to the slab. ===== Dave There are 10 types of people – those who understand binary and those who don’t.
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Whilst undoubtedly under the effects of alcohol, Craig Welch "The move comes as the cost of the most popular slabs of beer hover around $30, and follows almost a decade of steadily-rising prices." Odd comment. Nearly all beer that I see costs about $22 a slab. Around $30 in Sydney, depending on whether there are 24, 28 or 30 to the slab. There you go. I’ve never seen a slab that didn’t have 24 containers in it.
Happens a lot in Sydney – mostly they are 24 to a slab, AFAIK Tooheys New is the only one to have 28 (stubbies) to a slab, and then you get the blocks – 30 cans (NOT stubbies) put out by Tooheys and Carlton occasionally. Just today, the 30 can block was cheaper than the 24 stubbie slab of the same product, so it is obviously being subsidised by the brewery. ===== Dave There are 10 types of people – those who understand binary and those who don’t.