SWMBO has fully recovered after three weeks of the flu and on arising from her sick bed we went for a drive up to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast for a look around and fish n chips and ended up in the Caloundra RSL. It's a big club, probably a bit bigger than Dee Why RSL as one example. Wandered up to the bar and the club is Fosters only. Amazing not to see a XXXX tap in a Queensland Club. There's just about every Fosters brew available in Queensland on tap:
VB
VB Gold
Cascade Pale Ale
Cascade Light
Carlton Draught
Carlton Mid
Carlton Black
Carlton Pure Blonde
Guinness
Kilkenny
Carlsberg BUL
Stella Artois BUL
Not a bad choice of mega beers at one bar, for non home brewers (i.e. 99 percent of the public). I partook of a Cascade Pale which I don't mind at all, and a Carlsberg that was totally underwhelming and I'm sure I tasted POR. However it got me thinking, if the Club had gone the other way and gone Lion Nathan:
XXXX
XXXX Gold
Hahn Special Light
Tooheys Old
Tooheys New
TED
Hahn Super Dry
Heineken
Pretty poor list hey. Lion seem to be more intent on killing lines off rather than keeping a good range, probably because they are offshore and just using Australia as a milking cow? I bet XXXX heavy will be dead within ten years. Mark my words. Of course it would be nice to see some James Squires or Little Creatures but we're talking RSL here FFS. <_<
PS I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the committee were meeting the killer Fosters sales team, I bet some heavy wheeling and dealing went on
VB
VB Gold
Cascade Pale Ale
Cascade Light
Carlton Draught
Carlton Mid
Carlton Black
Carlton Pure Blonde
Guinness
Kilkenny
Carlsberg BUL
Stella Artois BUL
Not a bad choice of mega beers at one bar, for non home brewers (i.e. 99 percent of the public). I partook of a Cascade Pale which I don't mind at all, and a Carlsberg that was totally underwhelming and I'm sure I tasted POR. However it got me thinking, if the Club had gone the other way and gone Lion Nathan:
XXXX
XXXX Gold
Hahn Special Light
Tooheys Old
Tooheys New
TED
Hahn Super Dry
Heineken
Pretty poor list hey. Lion seem to be more intent on killing lines off rather than keeping a good range, probably because they are offshore and just using Australia as a milking cow? I bet XXXX heavy will be dead within ten years. Mark my words. Of course it would be nice to see some James Squires or Little Creatures but we're talking RSL here FFS. <_<
PS I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the committee were meeting the killer Fosters sales team, I bet some heavy wheeling and dealing went on