[Sigia-l] What's wrong down under?

[brain4hire]

Andrew Boyd wrote:
>  On 11/27/06, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Since this is on-topic by way of taxonomy, what category of beer
> > are we talking about here?
>
>  Ziya,
>
>  most Australian beers are, by world standards, light lagers - they
>  fit within a very narrow band in terms of malts/hops/base water/yeast
>  style and so on. Alex mentioned Coopers' beers  as being different -
>  I believe that the main difference with most of their ales' and the

http://www.coopers.com.au/

"Coopers Brewery produce a range of Ales,Stouts and Lagers."
http://www.coopers.com.au/beer.php

>  popular VB/New brews is the hops. In recent years we've seen an
>  explosion of alternatives - again, most staying firmly within the
>  light lager category, but dark ales are becoming popular. The average
>  run of commercial dark ales are not the same as their European
>  counterparts, but they are getting better.

Coopers Dark Ale has been a main stay here in Adelaide for years ;P

>  The real beer is out there if you know where to look for it - there
>  are some really quite good boutique breweries about, and an extensive
>  range of imported beers are available even in my local supermarket
>  (mind you, they also sell about 40 different types/brands of cheese,
>  tinned snails, and a large range of wines).

Some of the other cities in Aussie have produce markets where one can 
purchase all manner of fresh comestibles ... easily 40+ types of 
cheeses, 40+ types of smallgoods, etc.

>  As an aside, there is talk of a beer card sorting exercise at the
>  upcoming Canberra web-blast - if anyone is interested in attending,
>  please see http://webblast.org/canberra

I'd try to get over for it, but I'll still be hung over from 
http://www.acis2006.unisa.edu.au/ and seriously lacking in frequent 
flier kilometres 8O

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