There is a surprising lack of choice of Australian beer in America. Most shops stock Fosters but it is little more than a brand like Nike and tastes like whatever will sell locally. There are a million and one beers in Australia which makes it weird why they haven't come over. Maybe because Carlton United Breweries dominates Australian beer, but if that is the case why aren't there more Castlemaine and even Lion-Nathan beers in the US?

Other than Fosters the only other Australian beer available was Coopers; and even then it was rare you could get it all the time. A store in NJ stocked it for a while but then stopped. In Arizona the specialty stores stock it but you pay through the nose for it at $2.20 a stubbie bottle.

For past ANZAC Days we used to import Tooheys from Australia. It was expensive but at least we had some legitimate Australian beer rather than the Fosters muck. Last week I noticed that AJ's had started stocking Tooheys New.

Score.
Cam Riley: South Sea Republic. Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic.

Comments
  • I haven't had the Miller-made Fosters (I think it's made in Texas somewhere), but I like the Canadian stuff. Don't like the Australian Fosters Lager at all...
    • Nobody likes Australian Fosters. Well, English chavs.

      Nobody who matters likes Australian Fosters.
      • cam . # .
        Doesnt the Fosters sold in Australia come off the VB line?
        'Sworn to no party, and of no sect am I.' Frederick Vosper's republican motto.
        • Somebody told me a couple of years ago that they don't even make it in Australia anymore, that it's made somewhere else and shipped in. I don't know how reliable that information is, however, since the next five minutes of that conversation involved trying to work out which South East Asian country they might be using based on the obvious requirement that it have the most dysentery-infected water possible.