Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Friday, August 29, 2008 - Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane is a beautiful city and they do like to get their drink on it seems. After walking around in the city's beautiful riverside park area we came across The Ship Inn, a great little pub near a couple of small universities in the area. My first choice was going to be a Bees Neez draught (just love that name), but they were running a special on a local microbrew bottle of Duke Mid-Strength Lager Beer (how can I pass that up as a Blue Devil hoops fan). It was ice cold and that made it pretty drinkable on a warm afternoon, but not good enough to go for another one so I opted for the Bees Neez draught next. As the name slyly implies this wheat beer is infused with honey. Very smooth and another good choice on a warm afternoon. Later that evening we ate at a Vietnamese restaurant and their beer selection was poor, so I opted to check another common Australian beer off the list. This time it was XXXX Gold (not to be confused with Dos Equis - twice as good? not hardly). Yep, it was another AustraLAGER and it was basically hop-less crap. What a waste of calories and money.

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