CartoonHead
Bluelighter
Also if you're looking for Coopers Vintage on tap and find yourself in Adelaide, I believe the Austral Hotel in Rundle St usually has it (depending on availability)
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drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
No shit, I didn't realise a schooner was so small in SA. We call that a pot here in Melbourne. A schooner is 425mL here. Pretty sure the person I was addressing is in QLD though and their schooners are the same as in VIC so my point is still valid. 
Really does suck for those in SA though, looking at the wiki page on beer sizes in Aus it looks like you guys pints are our schooners (425mL) and you can get imperial pints but it seems to imply they would be pretty damn rare.
Anyone notice pints becoming a lot less common? In my area you could always get pints and I went overseas for a few months last year and since I have been back nowhere around me is selling pints anymore and it sucks ass! I admit I wasn't going out much for a good few months before I travelled so this might not be as recent of a change as it seems to me but either way I just wish I could still grab a bloody pint at my local!
How shit is it btw that these Australian companies can brew crap and claim it is imported beer? Just writing some shitty little disclaimer that basically no one reads isn't enough to counteract how misleading that is imo. They clearly don't even use the same ingredients or the taste wouldn't be so off, a bunch of 'em are a lower alcohol percentage when brewed here as well. It really is a joke how few staff at any bottle-o will even be able to tell you which beers they stock are legitimate imports.
Really does suck for those in SA though, looking at the wiki page on beer sizes in Aus it looks like you guys pints are our schooners (425mL) and you can get imperial pints but it seems to imply they would be pretty damn rare.
Anyone notice pints becoming a lot less common? In my area you could always get pints and I went overseas for a few months last year and since I have been back nowhere around me is selling pints anymore and it sucks ass! I admit I wasn't going out much for a good few months before I travelled so this might not be as recent of a change as it seems to me but either way I just wish I could still grab a bloody pint at my local!
How shit is it btw that these Australian companies can brew crap and claim it is imported beer? Just writing some shitty little disclaimer that basically no one reads isn't enough to counteract how misleading that is imo. They clearly don't even use the same ingredients or the taste wouldn't be so off, a bunch of 'em are a lower alcohol percentage when brewed here as well. It really is a joke how few staff at any bottle-o will even be able to tell you which beers they stock are legitimate imports.
CartoonHead
Bluelighter
Yeah I move to Melbourne in 3 months so I'm going to have to remember the difference. I wouldn't call imperials "rare" exactly, but they are quite often treated as a bit of a novelty and charged accordingly. Although 'm not sure if on average we pay significantly less for a 425ml "pint" of standard beer than you guys do for a 500ml.
God this non-uniform sizing of beer irks me!
When you say pints are less common..what are they being replaced with? Schooners and pots?
Bottle-o staff quality has declined massively in the last 10 years. We always took pride in our work and knowing our product, even the young staff, but so many pubs and bottle shops are operated by larger conglomerates and run differently these days...it's sad, product knowledge and passion has gone out the window in a lot of places.
Still...I hate being the "back in my day" guy, if you look around there are still quality establishments that know their stuff....they're just spread a little thinner I guess.
God this non-uniform sizing of beer irks me!
When you say pints are less common..what are they being replaced with? Schooners and pots?
Bottle-o staff quality has declined massively in the last 10 years. We always took pride in our work and knowing our product, even the young staff, but so many pubs and bottle shops are operated by larger conglomerates and run differently these days...it's sad, product knowledge and passion has gone out the window in a lot of places.
Still...I hate being the "back in my day" guy, if you look around there are still quality establishments that know their stuff....they're just spread a little thinner I guess.
tentram
Ex-Bluelighter
dm said:
nah definitely not here in central queensland coast where we have labourer/tradesman devoted campsites to accommodate them with the building boom in my specific town because of several big projects plus there are always the mines and other places like suchy which are in a pretty close proximity really - especially if youre used to calling a 4 or 5 hour drive something close by to do a quick daytrip.
if anything from the introduction to pints in the pubs here going back less than a decade, theyve become widely accepted and what youll see most blokes and shielas drinking - more so apparent if its at the local irish pub.
i really think some people need to be cut off from the pints before the alcohol altogether. theyre a half litre of beer and chugging a few heavies down quickly and consecutively is a sure fire way to end up blackout drunk in no time. not very smart or fun at all.
something increasing the chance that you will have your stomach pumped in good fashion as lots of teenagers appear to enjoy and have done often so!
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drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
I can't say pints are being replaced by schooners and pots per se because those were always available but yeah a lot of places that used to serve pints are only serving schooners and pots now. It really sucks ass, not only can I not enjoy the right amount at once but it is invariably more expensive to buy the smaller glasses as well.
I dunno if maybe its just my local area, the council does have laws that don't allow venues to serve shots after 12am and perhaps there was some legislation passed while I was overseas and that is why it is no longer available, something tells me it is just local venues sneaky way of increasing their profits though.
I agree that Bottle-o staff quality is pretty bad. I am only 23 though and I can't say I have noticed it decline in the 5 years I have been legal to shop in them.
Subdepth
Bluelighter
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I am a manager of a bottle-o up here in Sydney, and I whole-heartedly agree with that statement. The majority of the staff are just interested in cheap piss and their uni degree's which we are funding. I go into other bottle-o's and quiz their staff on beer types and what not and their just as incompetent, bit sad really.
Yet I get customers who know much more about the product than they do.
I am a manager of a bottle-o up here in Sydney, and I whole-heartedly agree with that statement. The majority of the staff are just interested in cheap piss and their uni degree's which we are funding. I go into other bottle-o's and quiz their staff on beer types and what not and their just as incompetent, bit sad really.
Yet I get customers who know much more about the product than they do.
footscrazy
Bluelight Crew
We've had this discussion about pints disappearing before Drug_Mentor, it sucks, and it's not just your area. They're doing it everywhere, crown no longer serves pints either and probably hasn't for a year or more now. It's just money making bullshit disguised as responsible service of alcohol IMO, as schooners generally cost more per unit of alcohol than pints did.
michael6120
Bluelighter
I've had the best 'high drunk' feeling I've had in a long time . . The last 2 nights I have purchased a 750ml longneck of Duvel (8.5% belgian beer) which I sat on for a while with smoking a couple joints throughout the night. The type of drunk I've had in a while!!
Subdepth
Bluelighter
Duvel is a damn tasty beer. Belgians certainly know how to do it.
Is there many craft beer fans amongst us?
One Thousand Words
Bluelighter
Pints have started to decline at the same time as plastic replaced glass. Personally I cant stand sitting on a large plastic pint for too long. Warm beer for the last 1/3 makes me want to just go up to the bar and purchase a freshly poured, especially in a Qld summer.
CartoonHead
Bluelighter
YES! Duvel is a fine thing. Have you tried the Chimay Reserve that comes in the tall bottle? That was rather lovely too. Love craft beers...and I love the way boutique beers/microbreweries have really exploded in Australia over the last decade, the availability is so good compared to what it was! There's a place here in Adelaide in the hills, in a suburb called Belair, that has a "great wall of beer" - about 805 selections from memory! Staggering and awesome.
I can't drink as much as I used to (got pancreatitis last year and had to quit for a while) but now I can partake in a few beverages again and it is fantastic - it takes me barely anything to feel intoxicated after the 6 months off drinking so I can spend my money on eclectic selections rather than just hammering down Coopers Sparkling Ale as fast as my stomach and wallet would permit :-D
Subdepth may I ask - is the bottle-o you manage an independent or one of the big ones? Understand if you don't want to talk too much about your workplace on here
justsayknow
Bluelighter
I'm a fan of some of the Belgians. Duvel, Chouffe and Hoegaarden mostly dont mind Chimay either, bit xxxy though. Don't always love the stuff coming out of the local microbreweries or some of the new stuff from the US. Massive bitter or floral hops flavours arent my favourite- for some reason this is what I think of when I hear the term "craft beer"
Captain Brewster
Bluelight Crew
^ fine choices!
The craft breweries are branching out on styles, there not just complete 'hop bombs' anymore, just need to try a few more.
Craft beer is my career. Love all (sorry majority) of the craft brewery's I've visited around vic/nsw.
It's an industry that's growing more and more everyday. I think I read somewhere that beer drinking in Australia had declined recently, but at the same time small craft breweries boomed.
My day of work involves creating around 3000L of the stuff.
Sorry, think I got a bit carried away then.
The craft breweries are branching out on styles, there not just complete 'hop bombs' anymore, just need to try a few more.
Craft beer is my career. Love all (sorry majority) of the craft brewery's I've visited around vic/nsw.
It's an industry that's growing more and more everyday. I think I read somewhere that beer drinking in Australia had declined recently, but at the same time small craft breweries boomed.
My day of work involves creating around 3000L of the stuff.
Sorry, think I got a bit carried away then.
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Captain Brewster
Bluelight Crew
Never heard of it.
It wouldn't happen to be a brewing company that's too lazy to create its own brewery? They shit me.
Licence brewing companies that pay a brewery to make a beer for them, they then go on to say they brewed it themselves in a different state of the country.
It wouldn't happen to be a brewing company that's too lazy to create its own brewery? They shit me.
Licence brewing companies that pay a brewery to make a beer for them, they then go on to say they brewed it themselves in a different state of the country.
bit_pattern
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No sources bro
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Ex-Bluelighter
lol
justsayknow
Bluelighter
Pretty sure the adelaide airport has it too at the coopers bar. On a different note I revisited Carlsberg special today after a long period of abstinence from that particular tinny. First time i've had beer in a can for a while. One of the main ingredients is "syrup" and you can taste every bit of it...
drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
Suddenly your username makes a lot of sense!