Not a good beer to be had ...

[Dogger Dan]

Likely saved a packet to

Dogger

[Oscar]

Guys, I could not whole-heartedly agree with you more about this topic. I also agree that asian & Italian restaurants are serial offenders of dishing up crap beer like VB Sterling & Crown - like dishwater to me.

[Oscar]

BTW, I think I found the mecca of beer entusiasts.
Was in Sydney last week & ended up at a funk bar called Equilibrium which is on george St in the CBD. In the ground floor on Ernst & Yound building.

Anyway, get this... 50 beers, all on their own tap on one wall.

I nearly died & went to heaven.

My fave beer is St Arnou - Cloudy.
Only got thru a handful of schoners (@ $7.50 a pop ), so not sure what else they had there.

Worth a look just for the drool factor alone.

[Mewshew]

Went to an italian restaurant last week. Best beer they had was Cascade Premium. Had one and then stuck to water.

Very happy with my local pubs though. There's about 3 in all that I frequent and all 3 recently got Coopers on tap and my favourite one is soon to get Little Creatures Pale Ale on tap too.

[corks]

bloody country victoria, nothing good on tap at all, except the local club which has guiness...everything else has flipping carlton draught. can't wait til i'm in melbs.

[Rob E]

Gents, i am in trouble tonight, my partners sisters 21st birthday.....its all catered and we have the stirling selection of VB and New its free after all though

[Iron-Haggis]

I get stuck with that New and VB selection at my cricket presentations. It is also free there, but still can't wait to get downstairs and get stuck into $3.50 schooners of Guiness.

I've found that James Squire Amber Ale is popping up in quite a few restaurants lately.

[Wassa]

could have been worse. I went to a catered do fo a relo in laws engagement and all the had was resch's and vb.

Thank god the father in law was coming and he can't drink store bought beer for health reasons (the sulfides as a preservative) so I was forced to take along an esky of home brew for him and myself.

The number of people that asked to share the brew was amazing and then very shitty when i told them all to f off.

My father and i had a top nite all nite and woke up hangover free.

[Iron-Haggis]

How is that worse? You got to have homebrew ya lucky bastard.

[Wassa]

I wasn't complaining, the others were, especially the people that 'hate homebrew' and wanted to drink it in preference to the slop.

[Oliver]

I believe I have an undisputed winner for the worst beer list.

'Er indoors and I found ourselves on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant (http://www.tramrestaurant.com.au) in Melbourne on Friday night (it was a birthday present given to the missus (not by me), so don't give me a hard time).

The beer selection: Crown Lager or Sterling Light.

In light of the fact that it's not possible to get an any worse beer list than this (no beer may well be preferable), I reckon we can just about declare a winner.

Oliver

By the way, the Tramcar Restaurant was experience was good, apart from the aforementioned beer selection, the music (which included the Seekers and the Beatles!!!) and the drapes hanging over the windows that came down almost to my eye level, thus obscuring any view higher than the windows of the shops we were passing.

[Simo]

i love that dinner tram. does the city circle just as i'm finishing my courier rounds for the day. Makes it so much easier on my legs at the end of a long day on that last delivery or two, just hang on and cruise along untill a newer, faster tram appears up a head then go grab that one

[Oliver]

I think I have a winner.

I went to Abla's in Elgin Street, Carlton, the other night for dinner. Food was amazing and I recommend it to anyone who's looking for some good middle-eastern food.

But how's this for a beer list: Crown Lager, Pure Blonde, Cascade Light and ... nothing else! I'd be surprised if there's a worse beer list anywhere on Earth!

In Abla's defence, it has only recently got a licence and it is BYO wine and beer, which is a big positive, as most joints don't allow BYO beer. Also, the wine list is OK, and the food is fabulous.

Can anyone better (or worse?) that beer list?

Cheers,

Oliver

[Will]

Going to venues for the rugby and such always presents a list of carbonated urine labeled as beer.

Last time I went to the Gabba for a rugby game the beers on offer were XXXX bitter, XXXX gold or VB.

I was actually hoping there would be a carlton draught or tooheys new around, I can at least drink them if there is nothing better on offer.

[Boonie]

Not a restaurant either, but Newcastle ISC....um, Marathon stadium.....hang on, what's it called now....ahh Energy Australia stadium has nothing but Blue Tongue products.

Blue Tongue Lager, Hunter Draught (ex blue tongue draught), and Hunter Old.

I go the black as it is better than the Lager and the Draught is atrocious....and I really mean atrocious. Worst commercial beer I have had.......ever.

Dare I say it, WORSE THAN VB ....IMO of course.

Cheers

Boonie

[Tim...]

I think I found possibly the greatest fish and chip shop in victoria the other day. Right next to gardenvale station, can't remember its name. Went in one night to grab some dinner before walking across the road to a 50th. Looked to the back of the shop and saw a fridge full of german beers, complete with proper glassware for each beer. So I had a nice fish and chip dinner along with an erdinger hefe and dunkel. Then headed off to the party supplied with megaswill (but a few cases of LCPA put aside for the bday person, his son, and me! As we seem to be the only ones in this world with a taste in beer). Twas a good night

[Iron-Haggis]

Sporting venues are the worst. When I venture out to Parramatta Stadium (One of few venues not to be stripped of it's name) all I have to choose from is Tooheys New on tap or Tooheys Extra Dry poured from a can into a plastic cup. I also heard at the SCG at the cricket the selection is VB Midstrength and Cascade Light.

[petesbrew]

I love looking at the beers on the menu but am most often disappointed with the usual selections.
My wife and I usually just share a bottle of wine (I'd rather wine than a vb/new/light/draught thanks).
At a viet restaurant in newtown recently I found one I'd never tried before, a 333.
Damn it was sooo good. Washed down the salt & pepper calamari beautifully!
I'm looking forward to a holiday to vietnam now to try that.

[James L]

Why does it always seem that when you go to a wedding, you get supplied with shit beer... And because its in jugs, you dont know what it is unless you ask.

I went to a wedding last December, and the groom (supposedly a good mate) supplied everyone with Emu Export. which is one of the worst beers in WA (maybe even Australia). Because i had suggested the location of the reception, he said he'd dish out stella to me all night, but it didnt happen. I only suggested the location of the reception for hte view of the river nad the city, and i didnt know anything about what beer he had planned to serve.

Went to another wedding last weekend and the same sort of thing happened... we got given TEDs all night to drink... its a little hard to swallow (excuse the pun) when you've been at the pub down the road for the 3 hours beforehand drinking pints of JSAA and Hoffbrauhaus waiting for the reception to start.

The only truely good beer i've had at a wedding was the one that my mate had where he bought the beer himself. And he went to town with the selection. Hoegaarden, Leffe, JSGA, Rogers, JS pils, LCPA, among others.

I have another weeding coming up in October, and i have a feeling that the beer is going to be a choice between tooheys new or cascade premo.

[gregb]

Just take your portakeg in a chiller bag.

Cheers,
Greg