100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #15
It’s Australian for crap beer.
I suppose tonight’s beer choice is a bit lame, but I wanted to review something that wasn’t good for a change. Also, I didn’t make it to the beer store and Hannaford doesn’t have much in the way of singles. It was a six pack of something questionable, or a giant can of something I know I wouldn’t like. I went with the latter. And since I decided to drink what the other half drinks, I decided to drink it the way they do, too. That means really cold and right out of the can. No fancy glass for me, no sir.
The 750 mL (that’s as big as a bottle of wine!) aluminum can proudly displays its Australianness all over, but the fine print says it was made in either Albany, GA or Fort Worth, TX. So this is an import, right? I’m going to count it as such when I do the weekly tally.
Popping the top let out about 75 pounds of pressure, I think. Once recovering from that shock, I was greeted with the pleasant aroma of corn. Delicious. I took a big swig and got the refreshing flavor of corn, too. That flavor was quickly replaced by the delicate taste of metal, then rapidly faded out to nothing. In the end, I think I was more thirsty afterwards than when I started.
Fosters does not benefit from warming up, so do not allow it to do so. Also never get it in water or keep it up after midnight. If I were to do a blind taste test of Fosters against Pabst and similar beers, I’d be hard pressed to tell which is which. So, I can’t imagine why people have any sort of brand loyalty to these beers. I knew what I was getting when I picked up the can in the store. I was expecting a mass-market, low flavor, high liquid, crap beer. And what do you know, that’s exactly what I got. Honestly, I can’t see what people like out of beers like this. I can find plenty of beers that are just as refreshing and way tastier. And my homebrew is both tastier and cheaper. So I don’t get it.
Anyway that was an exciting experiment. I’ll have to do better tomorrow night.