<div dir="ltr">Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries), I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was the major appeal.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Russell Standish <<a href="mailto:lists@hpcoders.com.au">lists@hpcoders.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:39:16PM -0700, Gillian Densmore wrote:<br>
> Rus the news here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH<br>
> DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to NZ or<br>
> the US if need be for saftey reasons?<br>
<br>
Its not as bad as that. The people in Syria have it far worse! A<br>
number of people have lost their lives, of course, and an incredible<br>
10,000 or so homes lost, but the community is rallying.<br>
<br>
A friend once described our house as the last one left standing in<br>
Sydney - we're perched on a cliff, overlooking the ocean, some 30+<br>
metres above sea level (I think we'd survive anything short of total<br>
collapse of the East Antarctic ice sheet.<br>
<br>
> and how's the beer there? that's the question I suspect fam would like to know<br>
> if they considered Aus?<br>
<br>
Pretty similar to the US, I suspect. We have quite a few<br>
microbreweries now, a good choice of craft ales, a far cry from when I<br>
was a young bloke, when we had a choice of two fairly similarly tasting<br>
lagers.<br>
<br>
What really is excellent (and cheap) are Aussie wines.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
-- <br>
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