vics

[mordy43]

It makes me want to cry, when i here people talk about how much they hate vic bitter.Are we forgetting where we came from.I have been brewing nearly 2 years and much prefere homemade,But i still have to visit an old friend once in a while.I don't know a how you fellows feel but i love BEER.

[grabman]

I agree mordy43,

I love beer as well

But VB is just not a decent beer, it puts cat's piss to shame. I couldn't bring myself to serve it to even my worts enemy.

Don't want to start a war, but it really comes down I suppose to what you grew up with. I've always hated VB, I mean it's not even a bitter beer, its so sweet its horrible!!

just my moan and groan for the night!!

[thehipone]

I will drink the local brew if I head out to a pub or someones house and that's what everyone else is drinking, I try to keep my snobbery to quiet, underhanded comments. However, if this XXXX or VB is not served absolutely ice cold, then I kinda have issues.

Given the choice, I'll avoid it simply because I prefer something with more taste, I don't find too much that is terribly offensive inVB/XXXX unless its warm. If anything, it's a reminder as to why you started brewing in the first place.

Some things I won't drink out of principle, Pure Blonde, XXXX DL (diet Lager, I kid you not, a diet beer!) are just wrong.

Basically, my philosophy is that life is too short to drink lagers. (Ok, bocks, oktoberfest and a good pilsener are fine now and then) But if you enjoy a VB every now and then, there's nothing wrong with it.

[rain]

I grant some do prefer VB, but as for me I can say that on a particularly hot (47c in the shade) out bush a couple of years ago the choice of moisture was warm water or cold VB - I drank the water.
VB causes an instant headache IF I drink it, but the first mouthful makes me shudder so I've rarely swallowed it.

[Evo]

Yeah, can't remember the last time I bought a case of VB. I'm with the hip one though, if I'm out with mates, in a shout I'll drink whatever (pretty much).

Notable exeptions would be Tooheys New, or Carlton Cold. I'd nominate myself DD (Designated Driver, not Dogger Dan) before imbibing such pish.

So I've started to sway most of my mates towards the good stuff. It hasn't been easy but it's been worth it.

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Struth some of you guys are hard core - VB is not the end of the world - not by any means - I'm not saying that I would drink it if given the option of having one of any of a large group of beers instead - but i doubt its capacity to induce instant head aches

There are any number of occassions when one finds oneself trapped by monkeys in a place where only VB is available - I would drink it in preference to the cat's p*ss

[Dogger Dan]

Where can I get some, really, if its that bad I have to try it just to say I did. Do they have an export model?



Dogger

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

hmmm - no don't think they do an export somehow - btw how was your export coopers?

[grabman]

Dogger,

The customs boys are that ashamed of it they won't let it too far out of the country. the only let it go to New Zealand, and they think that much of it that they sell it cheaper than we do here just to try to get rid of it!!

(I kid you not you can get it cheaper in Nz than in Oz, it's to do with our tax system. Both countries have a GST, yet over here the Gov't also applies an excise to booze)

Grabman

[Dogger Dan]

Pyssedas Heavy Industrial

In difference to the occasion, I decided to save it for Jan 26th, seemed rather appropriate

Grab,

there is that excise word again whats with that eh? Buggers

Dogger

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Your loyalty and patriotism [if that is the correct word] does not go unnoticed

[sago]

Sweated my proverbial ring piece off at the local rugby club today capping all the open sewer outlets.Drank 4 VB,s because that was all that was available.It was't too bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tried the bottled water -Why the bloody hell would anyone in their right mind BUY water ?????????

[Diabetic_beer_fiend]

VB, it will put the hair on your chest and then some.

I drink it, preffer a premium beer. but I am not fussy about beer... the only beers I have a grudge with are light beers and stuff like southark bitter. Even then... i would probably drink it. I could unterstand why some people would hate VB. Maybe they gotta a weak stomach or somthing!

[Tipsy]

I don't have a problem when drinking VB, except when drinking after a better quality beer. Leaves an unpleasent after taste. But if I start with VB I can drink it all night.

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

it's their penchant for putting monkeys in their bottles which disturbs me most

[Wassa]

Let's face i, VB really is cats pee and it's cats pee that gives you a shocka of a headache after 6 schooners.

Now Tooheys Old is a good beer that I still like to go and drink in the pub when I visit there evry afternoon and is the style of beer that I brew at home......rich dark ales.

But when it is all boiled down you can get there and drink brew until you can't stand up and don't wake up with the queezy guts and fuzzy head that you get from commercial beers. Why......no chemicals in brew, just pure natural ingredients that are good for you.

[GTI86]

Every time i drink more then four I get a killer hangover besides its nearly
$35 a slab way to much for me

[mordy43]

Only 4 stubbies and you have a hangover.Why the hell are you drinking beer in the first place.Bet you whine about the price of petrol as well.

[Paleman]

Every time i drink more then four I get a killer hangover besides its nearly
$35 a slab way to much for me

Mordy i think he meant four cartons !! lol.

I love beer, and will drink VB if its a choice of water or VB. But it has to be ice cold to kill the strange hop taste it has. I can do without it. My beer of choice to buy is Coopers Pale Ale.....deliciuos summer drink for an Ale. Even nicer in winter accompanied by a slab of beer battered snapper.

But nothing beats my homebrew.

[Tyberious Funk]

VB is the reason I spent my university years drinking scotch and coke. I was in my mid 20s before I discovered that beer could be consumed for its <i>taste</i> not just as a way to get drunk. That sort of trauma isn't easy to forgive.