Hi guys,
As I rewarded myself with a homebrew after spending yesterday packing in readyness to move house, I got to wondering how many beer-drinkers actually enjoyed their very first beer, and if it was good enough or bad enough to remember exactly what it was. My first was a Tooheys Blue (thats the local mega-swill's light beer for all you non-New South Welshman) and at the time I thought it was bloody awful. Eventually of course I developed a taste for beer and continue to develop it through brewing my own, but I'd be interested to hear from others about their "first time".
Cheers
Merlin
How good was your first beer, and what was it?
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Oliver
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I think my first taste of beer was probably my grandfather's Southwark Bitter, or Green Death as it used to be called (see the label below, which is what the labels looked like when I was a kid).
It's a crap beer. Kind of has that pub carpet smell and taste. I hated it then, but I don't think it really had anything to do with the fact that I didn't like beer. I just didn't like Southwark Bitter.
Interestingly though, he and my grandmother were also Cooper's Light (hey, if you're going to drink light beer ...) and Cooper's Stout drinkers. The Cooper's Stout got a particularly big nudge when they had people over for Saturday night card nights. I didn't care much for the stout then. But now
Southwark Bitter (Green Death) label:
Cheers,
Oliver
It's a crap beer. Kind of has that pub carpet smell and taste. I hated it then, but I don't think it really had anything to do with the fact that I didn't like beer. I just didn't like Southwark Bitter.
Interestingly though, he and my grandmother were also Cooper's Light (hey, if you're going to drink light beer ...) and Cooper's Stout drinkers. The Cooper's Stout got a particularly big nudge when they had people over for Saturday night card nights. I didn't care much for the stout then. But now
Southwark Bitter (Green Death) label:
Cheers,
Oliver
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I dont remember what the first beer was that i tried, was probably KB or Resches pilsener. Thats what my dad drank way back when i was a youngster. Was always a bit of a treat to get a sip of dads beer and I always enjoyed it.
He also brewed his own for a while but i dont remember ever tasting it, just him checking the fermenter a couple times each night much the same as i do now
By the time i was a late teenager i loved the taste of beer and couldnt get enough, even though it was mostly crap beer i was drinking
He also brewed his own for a while but i dont remember ever tasting it, just him checking the fermenter a couple times each night much the same as i do now
By the time i was a late teenager i loved the taste of beer and couldnt get enough, even though it was mostly crap beer i was drinking
my grandfather roped me into helping him brew some of his first batches of homebrew when i was around 10 years old.. in the evenings he'd get our beer glasses (mine was not much bigger than an egg cup) & pour us both a beer.. i remember it tasting like crap, & it'd take me so long to finish, but we'd made it so i struggle thru..
Two words "Carlton Cold" 
I was in 10th grade (almost 16 yo), at a party where older students were taking cash for alcohol runs and I ended up sharing a carton with two other mates. This was my first real exposure to alcohol (other than the odd shandy or glass of beer your dad gives you at BBQs). Needless to say I was blind within 2 hours and emptying the contents of my stomach in a fern garden within 3. You'd think I'd of learnt a valuable lesson, but alas no.
Jay.
I was in 10th grade (almost 16 yo), at a party where older students were taking cash for alcohol runs and I ended up sharing a carton with two other mates. This was my first real exposure to alcohol (other than the odd shandy or glass of beer your dad gives you at BBQs). Needless to say I was blind within 2 hours and emptying the contents of my stomach in a fern garden within 3. You'd think I'd of learnt a valuable lesson, but alas no.
Jay.
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Lebowski
My mums comment was (it tastes like heshen bags)Like Gregb, I was sipping from Dad's glass from when I was knee high to a grasshopper.
He exclusively drank Bulimba in those days (50s and 60s). Advertised as "The Big Big Beer", the ad went something like:
"You can get it drivin'
You can get it ridin'
You can get it ropin' a cow.
As a matter of fact I've got it right now.
A big big thirst needs a big big beer
And the Big Big Beer is Bulimba"
Sound familiar?
Bulimba, made in Toowoomba, was taken over by CUB and the ad must have been part of the deal and much later got used for VB.
He exclusively drank Bulimba in those days (50s and 60s). Advertised as "The Big Big Beer", the ad went something like:
"You can get it drivin'
You can get it ridin'
You can get it ropin' a cow.
As a matter of fact I've got it right now.
A big big thirst needs a big big beer
And the Big Big Beer is Bulimba"
Sound familiar?
Bulimba, made in Toowoomba, was taken over by CUB and the ad must have been part of the deal and much later got used for VB.
Clint
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Oliver must be from South Australia like me...
My first beer must have been either a Southwark or a West End lager, not sure which but as I recall my first sips mostly consisted of froth. I didnt like beer then, and didn't really appreciate it until my early 20's (same goes for black olives and anchovies). I guess my palate took a while to mature.
My first beer must have been either a Southwark or a West End lager, not sure which but as I recall my first sips mostly consisted of froth. I didnt like beer then, and didn't really appreciate it until my early 20's (same goes for black olives and anchovies). I guess my palate took a while to mature.
I havn't been game to mention The old southwark up 'til now, must'a drank hundreds of gallons of it in my youth, but worse than that, probably a third of that was warm to hot!! I grew up in the out back of South Oz, we only had kero fridges at home so no ice, we would go to town, buy a box of longnecks each and get straight into it while it was cold, as it got hotter it just did the job quicker and we drank slower. When I think about it makes you wonder how a bloke ever developed a taste for real beer at all. I havn't tried a southwark for years now, but the last time I did I thought they must have changed the recipe when they changed the can colour, it tasted shithouse, nothing like I remebered it in my youth!
Ross
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Put a wet T on those long necks and they will stay cool.
I am thinking I may have inserted my lemon merangue shoes again assuming you can get water (we would just toss them in the stream) and then chase the buggers down tripping and falling as they floated away. Wonder why I never hurt myself. Must have been pretty dumb in my youth, I am sure I would put them in a mesh bag today.
Winter time of course, you just stick them in a snow bank. Got to chase them down quick otherwise you are drinking a beercicle.
Sorry guys I digress
Dogger
I am thinking I may have inserted my lemon merangue shoes again assuming you can get water (we would just toss them in the stream) and then chase the buggers down tripping and falling as they floated away. Wonder why I never hurt myself. Must have been pretty dumb in my youth, I am sure I would put them in a mesh bag today.
Winter time of course, you just stick them in a snow bank. Got to chase them down quick otherwise you are drinking a beercicle.
Sorry guys I digress
Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
Streams and snow are a couple of things we lack a bit 'roud the area I grew up in,(or live in now for that matter) If we were stationary near a tank or dam we used the submersion method, but that was rarely an option. Thank Christ I don't have those problems any more, now I have a fifty litre frige permanently in the back of my ute, with a double solar panel on the roof rack charging a deep cycle battery in the back. I have it wired to a relay which transfers the frige on to the main battery while the motor is running so the solar panels can catch up, no more hot grog for me!
Ross
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Dogger Dan
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Ross,
What size are the solars,
Am in the market for such an item to power a deep cell in order to run the sump to pump the water out of my basement when the power goes out. (go figure eh). No kidding.
Dogger
What size are the solars,
Am in the market for such an item to power a deep cell in order to run the sump to pump the water out of my basement when the power goes out. (go figure eh). No kidding.
Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
G'Day Dogger,
The panels have been in use for about 8 years now, and I can't see the spec. plate because of the way it is mounted on my ute, (I think from memory they are 80watts each) but that is quite beside the point anyway, the thing is you will need to know the size of the load you will be asking it to drive and for how long. I don't know how much sun you get there, but you might be better off simply having a battery charger trickle charging your deep cycle battery, any sparky worth his salt, should be able to design a circuit to swap the pumps over automatically or maybe you use a DC pump, alternately maybe you want to include an inverter, then again you might be just taking the shit out me and I have just gone on the worldwide net looking like a dickhead!
Whatever,
The panels have been in use for about 8 years now, and I can't see the spec. plate because of the way it is mounted on my ute, (I think from memory they are 80watts each) but that is quite beside the point anyway, the thing is you will need to know the size of the load you will be asking it to drive and for how long. I don't know how much sun you get there, but you might be better off simply having a battery charger trickle charging your deep cycle battery, any sparky worth his salt, should be able to design a circuit to swap the pumps over automatically or maybe you use a DC pump, alternately maybe you want to include an inverter, then again you might be just taking the shit out me and I have just gone on the worldwide net looking like a dickhead!
Whatever,
Ross