Crown Larger.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Friday Mar 11, 2005 9:30 pm

I have been told that Crown Larger is the same as VB only brewed/ matured for an extra 2 weeks.

Is this true ?

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 4:30 am

It is the we we from a less mangey cat.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 6:59 am

Less than VB, not possiable !

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 9:12 am

I just wanted to mention this,

Watched Crocodile Dundee last week and then the second version (The missus and I like it, its funny).

I really watched the pub scenes this time looking for something different......and you know what, all I saw was Fosters. Even the guy in the middle of the tullies, all he had was Fosters and he was drinking it warm (surely thats worth the price of admission).

Whats with the only Fosters stuff?

Dogger

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 10:32 am

Kev not VB but Foster. Yes they are the same recipe and come out of the same vat. Crown Lager is export quality Fosters so if you drink Foster overseas you are drinking a crown.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 12:28 pm

Very interesting there Shaun, i might just put Crownies on my don't drink list too then.

Dogger Dan wrote: Whats with the only Fosters stuff?

I can honestly say iv never known anyone to drink the stuff or even see it being drunk.

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 2:51 pm

Kev I grow up on fosters I hate to say

it was what the old man drank. I have now shown him the light and he homebrews as well.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Saturday Mar 12, 2005 7:37 pm

Well my old man drinks VB from a can & always has .

Post by **Oliver** » Sunday Mar 13, 2005 6:18 pm

Dogger,

I expect Foster's paid a small fortune to be the only beer that you ever see in the Crododile Dundee

Cheers,

Oliver

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Sunday Mar 13, 2005 11:31 pm

I'd imagine to but you would think the parafinalia might show something else.

Dogger

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Monday Mar 14, 2005 4:11 pm

I have actually been in that pub, (not while Crocadile Dundee was in there) it is in Queensland and so most of the advertisng is for XXXX now, it is not were it was when the film was made either.

normell · Post by **normell** » Monday Mar 14, 2005 4:42 pm

Kev wrote:Very interesting there Shaun, i might just put Crownies on my don't drink list too then.

Dogger Dan wrote: Whats with the only Fosters stuff?
I can honestly say iv never known anyone to drink the stuff or even see it being drunk.

So I take it Kev, that your brews are better than Crown La(R)ger's then.
Pretty impressive. So how many Contests have you won, must be heaps.

Normell

Post by **Oliver** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2005 10:31 am

Personally I would never touch Foster's (very ordinary) or Crown Lager (the worst beer I've ever tasted).

The only person I know that's been a regular Foster's drinker is my uncle. No one else. The "Foster's is Australian for beer" motto is possibly the greatest piece of marketing crap in history.

There are two stories about Crown and Foster's being the same beer.

One is that Crown is just lagered longer.

The other (which a friend who works for CUB says is the story) is that before the Sydney Olympics CUB realised that Foster's drinkers from around the world would flock to Sydney and think Foster's would be the same. CUB realised they were in strife because everyone would hate the Aussie Foster's, so they started putting Crown Lager in Foster's bottles and have kept doing so because they sell so little Foster's that it's not economical to make such a small amount for the Australian market.

Cheers,

Oliver

guest · Post by **guest** » Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 1:47 pm

Fosters is a very popular beer in the Arab Gulf States.
A couple of e.g.'s.
The bar in the Crowne Plaza hotel in Dubai has many very well known international beers on tap (incl Carlsberg, Heineken, kilkenny, guinness, ... ). Most popular beer sold: Fosters! (and apparently not to Aussies either, we tend to go for the Carlsberg and/or Heineken).
Another. The only beer sold at the "swim up" bar at the InterContinental Hotel in Doha: Fosters!
Never actually drunk any Fosters whilst there, so can't comment on whether it is re-badged Crown of not.

Hrundi V Bakshi · Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 3:25 pm

I am understanding that Fosters on tap overseas (and often bottled) is brewed under license overseas and not exported from Australia, in much the same way that they are drinking Guiness in Sydney brewed in Perth.

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 4:27 pm

whereabouts in Perth is the guiness brewed, i might go and help myslef to some today!

Post by **Oliver** » Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 4:42 pm

I thought Australian tap Guinness was brewed at CUB's Yatala brewery in Brisbane.

The cans and bottles that contain widgets are imported.

All other bottled and canned stuff is brewed here.

Oliver

Hrundi V Bakshi · Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 4:51 pm

Oliver wrote:I thought Australian tap Guinness was brewed at CUB's Yatala brewery in Brisbane.

Of course you are right. I was thinking that Perth is a suburb of Brisbane, what a tit I was.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 5:11 pm

I used to work with an Irish guy a few years ago that would drink Guiness brewed under licence in England, but much preferred the product from the Guiness brewer in Ireland. He wouldn't touch the brewed-under licence stuff on tap over here, preferring the imported cannned variety.

Tony

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Wednesday Apr 06, 2005 7:19 pm

Hrundi V Bakshi wrote:
Oliver wrote:I thought Australian tap Guinness was brewed at CUB's Yatala brewery in Brisbane.
Of course you are right. I was thinking that Perth is a suburb of Brisbane, what a tit I was.

That doesn't make you a tit, they're useful:!:

That makes your geographically inept, I'd suggest a course of lessons with an Atlas!!!