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traveling up to the top end one xmas day - [yes it is a long story ]- but we found it hard to find open fuel boozers and beer outlets open. But we did make it  inn two days flat with a stop over!

What's the top end then Dave ?

I think it's the Northern Territories Malcolm.

well we use it in many ways but generally speaking all of the top end of OZ from the Kimberley across to Queensland anything above the 26th parallel we're the top enders !

This "coldest beer" thing makes me shiver. Don't you just hate it when you innocently ask for a beer and they go to the freezer for a frosted glass. Hey wait, mate. One off the shelf please. Chambré.
Make mine warm and soupy every time.

D4\\/!d wrote:

This "coldest beer" thing makes me shiver. Don't you just hate it when you innocently ask for a beer and they go to the freezer for a frosted glass. Hey wait, mate. One off the shelf please. Chambré.
Make mine warm and soupy every time.

surely you can't still get warm beer in UK can you?

Ice cold in the UK is reserved for gassy lagers like you have in OZ.  We have many craft beers in the UK brewed by micro breweries, usually available only in the local areas.

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I much prefer a cold light beer - never been much of a real ale or mild drinker.

Having said that I quite like Old Speckled Hen (really cold)

the last old speckled hen we had here in the bush it's head had been chopped off and it was runnin round the paddock with no head and the head was lyin on the ground still squarkin!

AlanHo wrote:

I much prefer a cold light beer - never been much of a real ale or mild drinker.

Having said that I quite like Old Speckled Hen (really cold)

You have obviously never tried Hobgoblin. It is a superb drink.

seriously we can now get all the european drinks including the brit ones but they are bloody expensive

davo wrote:

seriously we can now get all the european drinks including the brit ones but they are bloody expensive

Well worth the extra though.

It's bloody expensive here too.

Crawling round Holborn and Fleet Street yesterday and nothing was less that four quid a pint.
(yeah I know its a bit cheaper than that further north of The Thames)

As our ambassador said:
Well worth the extra though.

andsome wrote:

AlanHo wrote:

I much prefer a cold light beer - never been much of a real ale or mild drinker.

Having said that I quite like Old Speckled Hen (really cold)

You have obviously never tried Hobgoblin. It is a superb drink.

That's where you are wrong...I have and I found it quite nice - but nothing to rave about.  We all have different tastes in most things - including but not limited to -  ale, footie, bowls or humour.

I have also enjoyed the odd glass of "Dogs Bollocks" when I visit a friend in Whitney.  I guess its a local brew - I have not seen it anywhere else

My cousin in Leeds likes a beer from a Brewery in Bolton called "Old Slapper" - I tried one last year and did not like it one bit. (By that I mean I tried a beer called Old Slapper)

Some funny names about.  I have drunk sheep dip scotch.