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Perth,
Australia
Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Aussies do pride themselves on their beer before I get started I'd say one great thing about drinking in Oz. They know how to serve a beer. Its always in a frosted glass out of the fridge and the beer is always cold.
I've tried a few beers in my first few days in Perth before we head for a wee trip of the south.
Something called Beez Neez (Australians don't really spell well, kinda like the Americans but not as thick. Just racist) A honey based beer. Nice but wrong. Honey has no place in a beer. Unless it gets served at the bottom of the garden to Fairies! Decent price at about $5.
Aye its back to paying normal prices after Japan's excess. Ohh how I'd like to be back in Africa or Thailand where things are nice and cheap. Anyway.
Tooheys is another brand I had a go of. I'm not too sure how to describe this one. Basically I'd probably drink McEwans export before I drink this. Bland tasteless water that has the cheek to be $6.
Carlton Mid (mid strength beer 4%) tasty nice and very affordable at $4.5 a thumbs up. This is also what our host Kevin drank so I got to sample a lot of it. As an aside we were staying at Jeanette's friends (Kevin and Margaret) place so a big thanks to them for putting up with us as well as putting us up. (see what I did there) Aye born comedian, or at least born full of something!!!
There is a micro brewery called Indian Ocean (which is also the local) and it had a few beers named imaginatively Pilsner,white and red. Pilsner was awful and white was palatable (its amazing that the colder a beer is the more it fakes being nice) and the red tasted like a pint of 80 had been put in a bucket someone threw in a litre of cold tea and then poured the pint.
Perth is a pretty city. Two or three decent suburbs to head out in. The one kinda bad thing about Perth is that it was full of pommes (people of the mother land). I've not heard so many English accents since leaving Edinbirgh. it was a bit weird. Walking along the street and hearing folk form Liverpool (nothing wrong with Liverpuddlians) and Geordies etc babbling away in their foreign tongue. The influx of pommes kinda made meeting actual Australians a novelty.
My overall initial impression is that this is not a bad city maybe on the quiet side. Its also fecking miles away from anything else. After a few days of travelling south we'll put out feet up for christmas and New Year and see what I think of it then.
A merry christmas and a happy new year to you all.
Safe travels
Shaun
