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  Australian beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although Australia was settled predominantly by the British, it is too hot for ale brewing, and before refrigeration beer was difficult to brew at all (and obviously impossible to serve cold).
Beer was still being consumed on board 2 years later in 1770 when Cook was the first European to discover the east coast of Australia.
In recent years, mixing of beer tastes due to a more mobile population, major campaigns by the larger breweries to spread their brands outside their home state and the growth of the ‘premium’ beer market have started to erode the traditional loyalties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_beer   (1880 words)

  
 Beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beer is one of the oldest human-produced beverages, possibly dating back to at least the 7th millennium BC (perhaps prior even to bread), and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
In Europe, beer was being produced by or for monasteries as early as the 7th century.
Beer is drunk from a variety of vessels, such as a glass, a beer stein, a mug, a pewter tankard or even a beer bottle or can.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beer   (3923 words)

  
 rediff.com: Australian brewers hope for Olympics bonanza
Foster's is counting on sports fans to cheer on their heroes and toast wins at the Olympics with beer, lifting its sales by 10 to 15 percent in September over the same month last year and breaking an overall fall in Australian beer drinking.
Australians are not the beer guzzlers they once were, sinking less than 95 litres of beer a head annually, compared with 100 litres seven years ago and a peak of 135 litres 20 years ago.
Beer growth turned sluggish when tough drink driving laws were introduced in the late 1970s.
www.rediff.com /sports/2000/aug/30beer.htm   (905 words)

  
 All About Beer: Australian Beer Awards
First held in 1984, the annual Australian International Beer Awards are conducted jointly by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria Ltd. and the University of Ballarat, and sponsored by Liquorland Australia Pty.
Beers with a score of 17 to 20 receive gold medals, regardless of how many are in the category, so it's feasible to have four or five gold medals in one category.
Beers with "scattered scores," perhaps an assertive beer of character that has scored high on some judge's cards and low on others, may receive certificates of commendation.
www.allaboutbeer.com /features/comp3.html   (379 words)

  
 Beer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The distinctions applied to the words beer and ale have varied over time - originally both words refered to a drink fermented from barley (without hops, which had yet to be discovered) - and for one brief period in English history "beer" signified a brew made with hops and "ale" without.
These days beer properly refers to any fermented (but non-distilled) alcoholic beverage made from grain; ales and lagers are types of beer, as stout is a type of ale and pilsner a style of lager.
Wheat beers, however, should always be served cloudy as the wheat alone should give some cloudiness, and the distinctive yeast flavours are a major part of the interest in a good wheat beer.
home.iprimus.com.au /seanwyn/files/beer/beer.html   (744 words)

  
 Australian Beer
Though Australians usually prefer the beer of their home state (with only Victoria Bitter having a strong presence outside of its native state), other popular brews are Hahn and Crown lager.
While beer is generally an alcoholic beverage, some varieties exist, originated in the Western world, which undergo a process to remove most of the alcohol, producing what is called non-alcoholic beer.
Beer is also mentioned in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', and a 3900-year-old Sumerian poem honoring the patron goddess of brewing, Ninkasi, contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/13/australian-beer.html   (896 words)

  
 Australian Beer Etiquette
Free beer should always be consumed at a pace greater than that of a beer which had been bought by you or someone in your shouting party.
Beer from a tap must be drunk in the largest available beer glass of the establishment at all times, e.g.
One's perceived beer drinking ability should not be in any way overshadowed by the frequency with which one visits the lavatory for urinary purposes.
www.chicagobarproject.com /Features/AustralianBeerEtiquette.htm   (661 words)

  
 Mountain Goat Beer: Handcrafted Australian Ales
We'll be at the Australian Hotel in the Rocks from 5:30pm on Tues 21 Nov. Pop in for a beer on us from 5:30 for as long as the keg lasts***** Wed 22 and Thurs 23 November sees the next Federation Square Microbrewery Showcase in Melbourne.
There'll be 15 mcirobrewers there (including us) pouring their beers and banging on about the stuff and why we all like it.
There were 974 beers eneterd in the awards this year from all over the world.
www.goatbeer.com.au   (1081 words)

  
 Beer Types
This is beer served from a keg (barrel).
This seems to be a marketing ploy to suggest that the beer is of a higher quality than the locals would appreciate.
Additionally, the notion of a low alcohol beer was not particularly palatable – unfortunately light was known as a very unmanly beer.
www.australianbeers.com /beers/beer_types/beer_types.htm   (445 words)

  
 Australian beer
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 Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - But what about Australian beer?
The best-known Australian lagers are lightened and cheapened by the use of cane sugar, rather than rice (as in the U.S.) or maize (as in Britain), but none of those three ingredients is anything on which to hang flags.
Recognising that beer is made from grain (and sometimes cane sugar), the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria organises the event, and the judges are provided by the University of Ballarat, which has a brewing course.
The Australians had invited me, as a writer on beer, specifically to report the good news: the positive aromas and flavours, not so much in their mass-market lagers but in the more specialised beers from smaller breweries.
www.beerhunter.com /documents/19133-001371.html   (1423 words)

  
 Beer, Brew Your Own, Brewery & Microbrewery Links, Info, Forums
If all you know about beer is a six pack at a football game, welcome to the world of great beers.
There are fruity beers, stouts, beers that have been brewed by the Trappist monks for centuries, beers that are the creation of new botique microbreweries and many more.
The rest of the world is waking up to the fact that beer is a diverse as wine and can be as welcome as champagne at a celebration.
www.chiff.com /beer/index.htm   (617 words)

  
 Aussie Beer - Arjen's BeerPage
Australian beer will be fairly familiar to North Americans; it's also familiar to what's known as lager in Europe.
Beers such as Redback, Dogbolter and Eumundi, while being more expensive then the big commercial brands, are defenately worth a try.
Standard beer generally contains around 4.9% alcohol, although the trend in recent years has been towards low-alcohol beers, with an alcohol content of between 2% and 3.5%.
www.arjenroos.com /beer/aussie.htm   (564 words)

  
 XXXX beer - Australian-Food.com
The blend of hops produce a distinct bitter flavour with a light texture.
First brewed by Castlemaine's newly appointed german brewer in 1924, using a yeast transported from Germany (which was, ironically, transported back to Germany after the original culture was destroyed during World War II).
The beer quickly gobbled up most of the market share in the Sunshine State, and deeply wove itself into the fabric of Queensland culture.
australian-food.com /drinks/xxxx.html   (105 words)

  
 Australian Boutique Beverages
Through the Australian Beer Club you will be introduced to and taste, a large range of boutique beers from some of Australia’s leading micro-breweries.
Australia is home to hundreds of micro-breweries that still brew their beer in the traditional way – free of preservatives and made with all natural ingredients.
Personal or Gift memberships to the Australian Beer Club can be purchased for set quarters, one year or on an ongoing basis on our BECOME A MEMBER page.
www.australianbeerclub.com   (302 words)

  
 Australian beer fosters
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www.find-australia.com /Australia-Culture/australian-beer-fosters.html   (121 words)

  
 Click on your Beer Brand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
DRAUGHT This is beer served from a keg (barrel).
Beer that is available at a pub as draught is said to be "on tap".
LAGER This is beer made using bottom-fermenting yeast.
webpages.csus.edu /~sa58   (226 words)

  
 The Great Aussie Beer Page
Most beer sold around the world is pasturised, this basically means that the live yeast in the bottle has been killed i.e.
Since the beer is dead unlike wine (which is alive) cannot mature and grow in complexity.
There are beer styles that match any wine style and you can match any food with an appropriate beer just as you can do with a wine.
www.significantbit.com /Beer   (373 words)

  
 Australian Wine and Brewing news links
John Singleton bemoans the foreign takeover of Australian breweries, and throws support to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with funding from his Blue Tongue beer.
Australian wine prices fell for the fifth year, but exports are up.
The ABC's Landline show reports on the crisis in some areas of the Australian wine industry which has resulted in growers simply harvesting this year's crop onto the ground, while other areas expect an excellent, though reduced, vintage as a result of the drier seasons.
www.australianwineandbeer.com /news/news.htm   (799 words)

  
 Real Beer Australia :: The Ale Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Regular updates to all of these are made by the beer writers directly as well as soon as beer press releases come in.
Willie Simpson -- Willie Simpson has been writing about Australian beer regularly since 1988 and is widely regarded as the country's leading beer writer.
Willie was the founding editor of Australian Beer Guide and the editor/publisher of Australian Beer Magazine (1989-91).
www.realbeer.com.au /alefiles   (666 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Is today's beer all image over reality?
In a global beer industry ever more dominated by giant brands, the "Amber Nectar" is instantly recognisable as a refreshing glass of sun-soaked, fun-loving Australian flavour.
Foster's Group, the Australian firm that has sold Foster's to S&N in Europe, agrees that the beer will continue to be Australian regardless of where it is actually brewed.
British beer pressure group Camra (Campaign for Real Ale), says it has long called for lager drinkers to take more interest in the actual origin of their brand of choice.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4906858.stm   (796 words)

  
 Asia Times: Australian beer industry found to be sound
The ratings agency said the Australian brewing industry provided sound fundamentals for its two key players and should continue to provide both companies with a strong cash flow over the medium term.
This was despite the declining trend in per capita beer consumption and increased competition, Moody's said.
In a recently released report titled "Australian Brewing Industry in a Conundrum: Strong cash flow, but where to spend it?", Moody's author and vice president Gary Lau said that a rational approach to pricing and focus on margin improvement supported sound industry fundamentals.
atimes.com /oceania/CF15Ah01.html   (406 words)

  
 Real Beer Australia :: Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Australia’s ultimate beer festival is now almost at capacity, with more brewers and judges signing up to participate in The Australian Hotel Beer Awards and The Australian Beer Festival — to be held at the heritage listed Australian Hotel in The Rocks over the long weekend of October 1 & 2, 2005.
The Australian Beer Festival will provide beer lovers with the opportunity to taste and learn more about a range of brews during a weekend celebrating one of Australia’s greatest products — beer.
The winners of the Awards will be announced in the lead-up to the Australian Beer Festival, allowing the public to taste all the beers judged in the competition.
www.realbeer.com.au /alefiles/local_news/article_2005_08_25_2723.php   (541 words)

  
 Australian beer wins World Cup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Where a representative beer could not be found, another representative drink from the country was used.
The drinks were placed in eight groups of four, to correspond with the World Cup, with the two top-scoring beverages moving to the second round and knock out tastings.
A beer produced by South Australian brewer Coopers was named the eventual winner after it defeated Italy's Peroni Nastro Azzurro 4-3 in the final taste-off, the report said.
www.ibnlive.com /football/australian-beer-wins-world-cup/14981-5.html   (324 words)

  
 News - The Australian International Beer Awards - Melbourne, Australia, alcohol,beer,brewers,brewing, competition, beer ...
The Premier is Patron of the Australian International Beer Awards and the introduction in 2002 of the Premier’s Trophy further highlights the importance of Victoria’s brewing industry.
The Australian International Beer Awards were established in 1987 to reward excellence in the field of brewing and to assist in the promotion of the brewing industry and related industries on an international scale.
Beers from afar afield as the oldest brewery in the world in Germany and from Alaska head the record number of entries for the 2003 Australian International Beer Awards.
www.beerawards.com /news.asp   (5132 words)

  
 PerversionTracker: Apparently Useless Software: Beer: Lubricating Australian Society
They just labelled their beer XXXX (pronounced "Four-Ex"), and the Cane Toads (as they are known to the rest of us normal Aussies) have been happily pissed ever since.
You can often tell a lot about a person by the beer he or she is drinking.
This gold-labelled BMW of beers is the tipple of choice for chaps who drive European cars, and wear pinstriped suits, crisp cotton shirts and silk ties.
perversiontracker.com /archives/000155.html   (582 words)

  
 Australian Beer online at www.brew.com.au | Beer ratings, Australian Beer info, Australian breweries details, brewing, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Beer ratings, Australian Beer info, Australian breweries details, brewing, beers, brewery and more!
Thanks for stopping by the all-new brew.com.au, the website all about Australian beers and the breweries who make them.
We're dedicated to letting the people vote on every beer found in this great land, and by signing up you not only can keep a track of your favourite (and worst!) beers, but also be encouraged to taste similar beers to the ones you like — just the excuse we all need!
www.brew.com.au   (165 words)

  
 Australian Wine and Beer Homepage
Australian wine in particular has established a worldwide reputation for quality, and with an ever-increasing number of new growers and excellent training, this trend will continue.
Less wellknown internationally are our beers, but the flagship Fosters is recognized worldwide.
Please note that we can no longer respond to requests for information about Australian wine or wineries, or Australian beer or breweries which is not already provided on the site.
www.australianwineandbeer.com   (171 words)

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