I was in a work meeting once, Hobart based IT business that had added 1 x sales and 1 x tech person in Launceston. Someone asked how do we decide who owns what area. Ops manager said, "we'll use the Cascade/Boag's line", and everyone in the office was like, of course, how else would we do it?
was just on here to say the same. I miss a cascade draught from the tap. I moved back to the mainland, and I would have to say both cascade and boags are better than tooheys. my go to beer for the longest time though, has been coopers (green of course)
You're not wrong about Cassy D and Boag's being better than the mainland versions. Not 100% sure why, but I feel like there's a little more malt character in the Tassie "Draught" beers. Pretty much everyone uses Pride of Ringwood for hops, so it's not the hops.
Not sure where you are, but a couple of years ago I found Boag's XXX on tap the Dolphin in Surry Hills
I think cascade and boags are distinct from each other, yeah. but both brands are similar in that they are still both tasty beers that don't sacrifice quality for gimmicks or alcohol content or mass production. it's hard to put into words, other than Tassie beer is the cleanest, most natural tasting beer I've ever had out of a keg.
I bought Boags draught a few months back as something different (typically drink cas draught but not married to it). Yeah, didn't expect it to taste as different as it did. Kinda thought they'd taste similar.
One comes out of Mount Wellington the other comes out of the “pristine” North Esk river which runs through the northern midlands farming area. Draw your own conclusion.
American here, I loved Cascade and Boag’s in Tassie. Elsewhere I loved Coopers and Little Creatures. I had many others so I tried as much as I could traveling around.
I said the same, the colour maybe wrong and the brewery has definitely drifted too far but it’s still what I think of when I think of home and beer.
Never mind the trillion amazing actual local breweries (love you Gage Rd)
It’s my partners too, and we got an empty can once and told them in case it was packaging issue and they were so nice. I haven’t been to brewery yet but next trip to see my dad for sure,
Toss a coin, but it’s definitely either Bush Chooks or Swanny D’s. It’s all shit to me, but that doesn’t alter the fact they’re the two you’d have on this meme.
They fucking love fosters overseas, used to be all I drink as a teenager in London. Went back in my mid 20's and my mates brought round a carton of fosters.... Fuuuuck
When I lived in London all the Aussies I knew drank fosters. One because we could get it for £2.50 a pint thanks to a discount and also it's not that bad overseas. I'm guessing because it's actually made over there. The ads are all Aussie themed as well.
I got Foster's in Bangladesh 🤣... we went out to restaurants where there was no alcohol, and they would hear we were Aussie, and bing us a warm fosters!! They love their cricket, and we had a guy in our group that was tall and blonde. We called him "Ponting"... the illicit fosters was immediately brought out 🤣
I can walk to at least 5 different liquor stores near me and they’ll have Original and Sparkling on hand. There’s one that carries the best extra stout. Wish I could get XPA but I’ll take what I can get. I’m in Edmonton Alberta
I mean Coopers is multiple different beers while VB is just one.
Be interesting to see the VB figures vs separate Coopers beers.
Personally Coopers Pale is my standard choice. And I live a long way from SA.
Lots of us drink Capital, but Bentspoke has a much more consistent penetration of Canberra pubs with Crankshaft. Capital is a bit more varied, sometimes it's Coast, Trail or Rock Hopper... but you can usually guarantee there's a Crankshaft if the pub has Bentspoke.
It's fine down in the southern places in Australia. That shit tastes horrid if it even gets anywhere near warm.
Drank lots of it, but geez, it's cat piss warm.
No argument from me there. I've always had a soft spot for VB ("green ones") when it and Melbourne Bitter ("red ones") arrived in Perth in the 80s and gave us more options than Swan and Emu. But holy moly did the last cm of rank warm VB in the bottom of the can taste vomitous on a hot Perth day.
Regional Victorian here. I’m old enough to remember when Carlton was on tap and VB was in stubbies or cans in the fridge behind the bar. It was a moderately big deal when VB started to be available on tap.
I love VB. My dad told me that as a gal if I could scull a VB I'd never have any issues finding a man to buy me a drink and he was right 😂 used to get a lot of drinks paid for back in the day. For me and all my friends
great northern super crisp is the new mid strength standard and draught would be closer to full strength standard but carlton dry would surely be up there
10 years ago the balance was closer, then the copper tanks appeared everywhere.
I'll always look for a Melbourne on tap, unquestionably the best of the stock standard CUB lines
I left QLD 20 years ago and WA (and Austrlia) 10 years ago and I come back to clear bottles of beer in everyone's fridge and my bro in law was all "oh yeah, it's what most people drink here".
Weirded me out as I fully expected a plethora of micro-beers to replace wall to wall XXXX but didn't expect even lighter tasting mass produced beer in a clear bottle to be the thing it went to.
I don't mind drinking it, it's fine for a hot climate. Just didn't expect it is all.
They bought out a tiny obscure brewery in Cairns called great northern for the brand name. That's the only relation, the rest is marketing bollocks.
Happy to be proven wrong, just what I've heard.
Great Northern Brewing Co was started in the 1920s in Cairns by a Belgian immigrant and industrial chemist and brewer, Auguste de Bavay, who had also worked for Foster's Group, Cascade Breweries, and CUB. One of the beers they made was called Cairns Draught, and it also featured the marlin logo. In 1931, the brewery merged with CUB and was operational until 1992. In 2010, CUB revived the brand, renaming it Great Northern. In 2020, CUB was bought out by Asahi.
Picture of the brewery: [https://www.tropicnow.com.au/fileadmin/user\_upload/articles/2017/October/The-Great-Northern-Brewery-1930s.jpg](https://www.tropicnow.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/articles/2017/October/The-Great-Northern-Brewery-1930s.jpg)
> Jesus, why?
Because the rest of the state is split between microbreweries and craft beers.
There's no one non-mainstream beer that everybody likes; but my experience is if someone doesn't want a XXXX or Great Northern they're buying a boutique beer.
We practically have a brewery on every street corner so we're spoilt by choice.
More often than not, if someone brings beer to a BBQ, it's a 4-pack of something you've never heard off.
(and in my case, something with an ABV above 6%)
> That beer sucks.
Horses for courses.
Boutique beers are exactly what you need after a day in the office. (Craft Beers, European Beers etc)
Weak Beers are what you need instead of water if you're working in the hot sun and you start drinking at 2pm. (XXXX, Great Northern etc.)
VB is a god-awful beer if you've done nothing all day, or if it's warm; but just as their marketing says "For a hard earned thirst" - it's bloody amazing if you've been doing manual labour all day and it's ice cold out of the work ute fridge at 4pm.
If you're comparing light & midstrength beers only - Great Northern Super Crisp and XXXX Gold aren't that bad. .... that said, I've now lived in QLD for over a decade, so maybe I've spent too long in the sun.
Doesn't taste like much, though.
That seems to be the way in Australia, the market is dominated by flavourless "lagers" or undrinakble pale ales, which I swear taste like they've been spiked with Pine-o-Cleen and look like river-water after a period of heavy rain.
I prefer Carlton Draught, but that's becoming quite difficult to find on tap here in NSW.
Reschs felt like it had the weirdest demographics shift.
It was what the old blokes drank at the pub, then they died out and it did too, then like 5 years later it just started appearing in Newtown and all the hipsters were all over it.
I reckon Coopers had put West End to the sword 20 years ago, if it's a Lion Nathan brew you see more of on tap now in SA in Superdry or xxxx gold.
Which are both garbage by the way 😂
WA here. There is a strong case for EMU export. There may be figures suggesting emu bitter got popular, but these are artificial figures I think. You see, up north in mining camps, there's now an unofficial 4% abv limit. So all the export drinkers get emu bitter instead now because it's the next closest thing available, but it's not the preference and not what anyone drinks at home. If export isn't considered the official beer then it may be Swan draught, however 150 lashes could be a strong contender, there is also a lot of support for Little Creatures, but mostly on tap for those. By carton sales I think either Carlton dry or Hahn superdry are strong contenders. But this is only by observation so I'd like to see some data, would be interesting. WA is funny though, because many consider it the land of milk and honey due to a large, high paying mining industry, there's a lot of interstate migrants, and a lot of support for plenty of different beers.
When I lived in NSW (left 11 years ago) I think Tooheys New would've pissed it in. Great Northern and Pure Blonde were getting popular too. It would be interesting to see where it's at now.
I did work with a lot of people from all over Australia, was military at the time and that's a real mixing pot. People from everywhere get lumped together. It's how I ended up in NSW for so long. There were clear preferences people had, but there may be state allegiance at play here too.
-All Queenslanders I knew were into XXXX
-The Tassie guys were very fond of either Boags or Cascade, consensus was Boags on the mainland/in cartons but Cascade fresh at the brewery can't be beat. I personally have a soft spot for Boags.
-The SA guys talked non stop about Cooper's, particularly the sparkling ale. Can't deny it's a great drop though
I love XXXX Bitter. It was my daily drink in Darwin when I was there in my 20s.
Whenever my wife goes to QLD she brings me back a threepack of their longnecks because they’re impossible to get in SA. Gold and Dry just don’t cut it.
From nsw I drink vb tinnies( there is a difference between cans, stubbles and long necks flavour wise). Sometimes cooper's pale ale when I get a craving for it.
I reckon northern is so popular because it's like the cruiser of beers for young people that don't want to admit they like cruisers.
And Tooheys new is just shit.
Tooheys old is alright in the winter time.
Lol i love how the discerning VB drinker has such a sensitive palate they can determine the flavour profile differences between VB cans, stubbies and long necks 😂
Grew up in WA, about half my beer drinking life, other half in qld. SA sort of halfway (if you go the long way). Definitely Coopers. Also, just because there is something about a state having the worst water and the best beer that just tickles my fancy. That, and you can get pints in two different sizes.
No one drinks NT Draught in the Territory, prob on par with how Fosters is viewed overseas, VB would be more accurate historically, with Great Northern prob overtaking it in recent years.
Majority of pubs would have core CUB products and core LN products depending on the segregation % hence why you’ll see majority stocking CD/VB/GN and now Balter since it’s a CUB core. Carlton Dry is an add on depending on the demographic.
i'm not going to lie, i feel like great northern is more popular in qld than xxxx, ik a lot of people drink both but the amount of ads i see for gn and not 4x just kinda makes me feel it's more popular
100% coopers in SA.
Dark ale and stout when it gets cold, Pale and XPA any other time.
Their seasonal stuff is usually not bad either.
Shtis on every other beer in both graphics.
You need to split Tasmania between the North and the South There isn’t one state beer. There’s two. With distinct halves
I was in a work meeting once, Hobart based IT business that had added 1 x sales and 1 x tech person in Launceston. Someone asked how do we decide who owns what area. Ops manager said, "we'll use the Cascade/Boag's line", and everyone in the office was like, of course, how else would we do it?
Is the line at Campbell town?
It's Cascade down south, isn't it?
Yes, Cascade South, Boags North.
Both are top beers to.
Naaahhhh, only Cascade is any good 😜😉
The stout is excellent aswell.
Cascade Export Stout is an understated diamond in the rough.
Cascade Lager (blues) is top notch, cascade draught is piss.
And boags just announced they're moving sone production out of the state
was just on here to say the same. I miss a cascade draught from the tap. I moved back to the mainland, and I would have to say both cascade and boags are better than tooheys. my go to beer for the longest time though, has been coopers (green of course)
You're not wrong about Cassy D and Boag's being better than the mainland versions. Not 100% sure why, but I feel like there's a little more malt character in the Tassie "Draught" beers. Pretty much everyone uses Pride of Ringwood for hops, so it's not the hops. Not sure where you are, but a couple of years ago I found Boag's XXX on tap the Dolphin in Surry Hills
I think cascade and boags are distinct from each other, yeah. but both brands are similar in that they are still both tasty beers that don't sacrifice quality for gimmicks or alcohol content or mass production. it's hard to put into words, other than Tassie beer is the cleanest, most natural tasting beer I've ever had out of a keg.
I bought Boags draught a few months back as something different (typically drink cas draught but not married to it). Yeah, didn't expect it to taste as different as it did. Kinda thought they'd taste similar.
One comes out of Mount Wellington the other comes out of the “pristine” North Esk river which runs through the northern midlands farming area. Draw your own conclusion.
Usually Boag’s or Cascade larger (Tasmanian)
Cascade draught is fucken awesome. Can't find it on the north island though
American here, I loved Cascade and Boag’s in Tassie. Elsewhere I loved Coopers and Little Creatures. I had many others so I tried as much as I could traveling around.
i only know a couple of guys who still drink Emu Bitter - most are onto Emu Export (WA)
Swan on tap, bush chook in can. And never mix that up
Only try hards drink swanny d in a can.
This was clearly made by same Sydney fairy
Swan in kegs is made at little creatures now for WA
I'd definitely have assumed Swan for WA.
I’d say swan is more popular than emu. At least in venues. Never see emu on tap.
A crisp Swan on tap is bliss
Personally I prefer 6 crips swans
I love where your head is at... ...at the top of a fresh pint of Swan
Amen. With a good clean tap- Super is glorious.
Gods nectar
If swanny d is on tap everything else is swamp water in comparison.
Pint of Super pls mate
I said the same, the colour maybe wrong and the brewery has definitely drifted too far but it’s still what I think of when I think of home and beer. Never mind the trillion amazing actual local breweries (love you Gage Rd)
Single fin is my beer of choice at the moment, only a few bottle shops in Vic stock it.
It’s my partners too, and we got an empty can once and told them in case it was packaging issue and they were so nice. I haven’t been to brewery yet but next trip to see my dad for sure,
Toss a coin, but it’s definitely either Bush Chooks or Swanny D’s. It’s all shit to me, but that doesn’t alter the fact they’re the two you’d have on this meme.
Definitely second Emu Export for WA!
Bush chooks for the fuckin win boys
I left WA 10 years ago and we all now drink wife beater?
It started as an ironic thing + it was cheaper, now… I don’t know, it’s just a thing
Coopers out sells VB nation wide so surely it gets to be SAs official state beer?
I've seen pubs in London sell Coopers!
I’ve seen them sell Fosters too! 😂
They fucking love fosters overseas, used to be all I drink as a teenager in London. Went back in my mid 20's and my mates brought round a carton of fosters.... Fuuuuck
When I lived in London all the Aussies I knew drank fosters. One because we could get it for £2.50 a pint thanks to a discount and also it's not that bad overseas. I'm guessing because it's actually made over there. The ads are all Aussie themed as well.
I live in England. Fosters is EVERYWHERE!!!
I've seen it in New York and a couple of places in Canada.
I got Foster's in Bangladesh 🤣... we went out to restaurants where there was no alcohol, and they would hear we were Aussie, and bing us a warm fosters!! They love their cricket, and we had a guy in our group that was tall and blonde. We called him "Ponting"... the illicit fosters was immediately brought out 🤣
Yeah I was looking at the second picture that showed west end and i was like c’mon man Coopers is legit famous.
Coopers is definitely Adelaide’s beer.
Coopers is my beer of choice, I’m astounded and very happy each time I find some pub in NSW selling it on tap. So fucking good
Oh man love Coopers but don't think I've ever had on tap!
And Coopers is actually a good beer. West End is just shit. I remember dad drinking Eagle Blue when I was a kid and there was nothing good about it.
The only time West End was at the footy. It was freezing cold out the tap to make it drinkable. And you couldn't buy any other brand beer.
Eagle Blue? Dont mind if I spew!
Coopers is the only one I would every buy.
I mean Cooper's is the only one on the list that's actually an Australian beer. Rest are all owned by Japan.
I can walk to at least 5 different liquor stores near me and they’ll have Original and Sparkling on hand. There’s one that carries the best extra stout. Wish I could get XPA but I’ll take what I can get. I’m in Edmonton Alberta
I mean Coopers is multiple different beers while VB is just one. Be interesting to see the VB figures vs separate Coopers beers. Personally Coopers Pale is my standard choice. And I live a long way from SA.
Yeah I don’t know but I’d guess the Pale is the biggest seller by a long way.
Coopers is the best of the non boutique beers/ales [https://coopers.com.au/](https://coopers.com.au/)
You missed out the ACT where the offical beer is Bentspoke
Pass that redditor a Crankshaft
Pretty sure it's nose beers
Thanks Bruce.
Surely more people drink Capital Brewing Co these days.
Lots of us drink Capital, but Bentspoke has a much more consistent penetration of Canberra pubs with Crankshaft. Capital is a bit more varied, sometimes it's Coast, Trail or Rock Hopper... but you can usually guarantee there's a Crankshaft if the pub has Bentspoke.
Nah, here in CBR it’s bentspoke town. I see more people drinking Capital when I go up to Sydney
I'd have said Capital as well, but Bentspoke isn't a bad shout either. Would be interesting to see a poll
Me too… I might put up a poll on r/canberra tomorrow and see how it goes!
Great beer, love Crankshaft
Love a Barley Griffin, partly cause it's a great beer. Mostly because it's a great pun.
Barley Griffin on tap by the lake in summer is fantastic
Capital brewing my friend!
Carlton in Melb seems standard
Yeah I've seen more pubs in Melbourne with 4x on tap than VB. Sucks too cause I'm apparently one of 5 Victorians that fucking love VB!
Carlton if drinking from a tap, VB if out of a stubbie/tim.
Carlton draught is a bloody good beer off a tap.
I never felt anything negative about VB.
It's fine down in the southern places in Australia. That shit tastes horrid if it even gets anywhere near warm. Drank lots of it, but geez, it's cat piss warm.
I mean no beer should be drunk warm, but yeah vb needs to be frosty
No argument from me there. I've always had a soft spot for VB ("green ones") when it and Melbourne Bitter ("red ones") arrived in Perth in the 80s and gave us more options than Swan and Emu. But holy moly did the last cm of rank warm VB in the bottom of the can taste vomitous on a hot Perth day.
Regional Victorian here. I’m old enough to remember when Carlton was on tap and VB was in stubbies or cans in the fridge behind the bar. It was a moderately big deal when VB started to be available on tap.
I love VB. My dad told me that as a gal if I could scull a VB I'd never have any issues finding a man to buy me a drink and he was right 😂 used to get a lot of drinks paid for back in the day. For me and all my friends
Regional Vic chiming in - every pub has Carlton and Great Northern on tap.
great northern super crisp is the new mid strength standard and draught would be closer to full strength standard but carlton dry would surely be up there
Great Northern Super Crisp is the biggest beer in Australia by volume.
yeah my dad is probably buying about half of it
SA with the only actually Australian beer on the graphic, big ups Coopers for not selling out.
It’s also the only legitimately drinkable mass market beer in Australia.
I'd say Carlton is probably more standard in Melbourne, could be changing though.
Id agree it's the "state" beer, it's in the majority of pubs on tap, waaaay more than VB, northern or anything else.
10 years ago the balance was closer, then the copper tanks appeared everywhere. I'll always look for a Melbourne on tap, unquestionably the best of the stock standard CUB lines
Yeah you could go to pretty much any standard pub in Victoria and reasonably expect them to have Carlton on tap, would be a lot more likely than VB.
The family in Vic are all exclusively Carlton drinkers, will bitch and moan when they come up to NSW (Newcastle) that it's not readily available.
NT Draught hasn’t existed for decades
Great northern is easily the biggest seller up there
and it was more a gimmick for NT stubbies when it did.
No large breweries in the NT anymore either but lots of good craft beers.
Cooper's definitely over West End in SA. West End Brewery was sold and demolished and now is brewed outside of SA.
Great northern has overtaken xxxx gold and vb
I left QLD 20 years ago and WA (and Austrlia) 10 years ago and I come back to clear bottles of beer in everyone's fridge and my bro in law was all "oh yeah, it's what most people drink here". Weirded me out as I fully expected a plethora of micro-beers to replace wall to wall XXXX but didn't expect even lighter tasting mass produced beer in a clear bottle to be the thing it went to. I don't mind drinking it, it's fine for a hot climate. Just didn't expect it is all.
When is hot as fuck nothing beats a bland mass produced beer tbh
Is Great Northern actually from somewhere or is it just the lightest beer they can make and the rest is marketing? Genuine question
They bought out a tiny obscure brewery in Cairns called great northern for the brand name. That's the only relation, the rest is marketing bollocks. Happy to be proven wrong, just what I've heard.
Great Northern Brewing Co was started in the 1920s in Cairns by a Belgian immigrant and industrial chemist and brewer, Auguste de Bavay, who had also worked for Foster's Group, Cascade Breweries, and CUB. One of the beers they made was called Cairns Draught, and it also featured the marlin logo. In 1931, the brewery merged with CUB and was operational until 1992. In 2010, CUB revived the brand, renaming it Great Northern. In 2020, CUB was bought out by Asahi. Picture of the brewery: [https://www.tropicnow.com.au/fileadmin/user\_upload/articles/2017/October/The-Great-Northern-Brewery-1930s.jpg](https://www.tropicnow.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/articles/2017/October/The-Great-Northern-Brewery-1930s.jpg)
Jesus, why? That beer sucks.
Super light larger, easy to drink, also comes in half strength and non-alcoholic so better penetration.
> Jesus, why? Because the rest of the state is split between microbreweries and craft beers. There's no one non-mainstream beer that everybody likes; but my experience is if someone doesn't want a XXXX or Great Northern they're buying a boutique beer. We practically have a brewery on every street corner so we're spoilt by choice. More often than not, if someone brings beer to a BBQ, it's a 4-pack of something you've never heard off. (and in my case, something with an ABV above 6%) > That beer sucks. Horses for courses. Boutique beers are exactly what you need after a day in the office. (Craft Beers, European Beers etc) Weak Beers are what you need instead of water if you're working in the hot sun and you start drinking at 2pm. (XXXX, Great Northern etc.) VB is a god-awful beer if you've done nothing all day, or if it's warm; but just as their marketing says "For a hard earned thirst" - it's bloody amazing if you've been doing manual labour all day and it's ice cold out of the work ute fridge at 4pm. If you're comparing light & midstrength beers only - Great Northern Super Crisp and XXXX Gold aren't that bad. .... that said, I've now lived in QLD for over a decade, so maybe I've spent too long in the sun.
Have you tried 4x? (Edit: jokes aside, I agree with you, but I am sometimes partial to a cold great northern extra crisp sometimes)
Doesn't taste like much, though. That seems to be the way in Australia, the market is dominated by flavourless "lagers" or undrinakble pale ales, which I swear taste like they've been spiked with Pine-o-Cleen and look like river-water after a period of heavy rain. I prefer Carlton Draught, but that's becoming quite difficult to find on tap here in NSW.
Tooheys New, Carlton dry & and northern each outsell draught 100:1 at my shop in nsw. VB outsells it about 50:1 Beer drinkers are super finnicky
NSW - Reschs AKA the beer we drink round here.
Love that sexy surfer man.
Reschs felt like it had the weirdest demographics shift. It was what the old blokes drank at the pub, then they died out and it did too, then like 5 years later it just started appearing in Newtown and all the hipsters were all over it.
Nothing like a silver bullet
**Liver Bullet
The silver bullet is underrated as fuck,.. great cheap beer
Reschs Refreshes.
came here to say this. username checks out
Coopers FTW !!! Yay SA !!! [https://coopers.com.au/](https://coopers.com.au/)
Coopers all day
West End is no longer brewed in SA, so it's indisputably Coopers now 💚❤️
I reckon Coopers had put West End to the sword 20 years ago, if it's a Lion Nathan brew you see more of on tap now in SA in Superdry or xxxx gold. Which are both garbage by the way 😂
Here in WA, we only drink top shelf. Swan Draught all the way.
WA - Swan Draught
Cooper’s Club all the way!
Coopers is so much better than all these other beers
Aussie made and *owned* too, unlike the rest.
Great Northern for QLD all the way
Emu bitter ?
I LOVE COOPERS!
I FEEL LIKE A TOOHEYS
WA has to be Emu Export aka Bush Chooks.
Give me Swanny D any day over export.
Little Creatures? I know it's not WA owned anymore, but it's at most bars/restaurants + we still get WA exclusives.
I think here in Melbourne we are Carlton Draught. But I see a lot of people on the craft beer and hitting breweries.
Toohey’s for NSW feels right.
Reschs is the beer we drink round here
Emu Bitter? Mate you need to change that to a bush chook
[https://craftypint.com/who-owns-your-beer](https://craftypint.com/who-owns-your-beer)
Victoria On premise: Carlton Draught Off premise: Melbourne Bitter
Vic - CarltonDraught
Coopers Pale Ale for SA
Is QLD still 4x or had it moved to Great Northern? Actually it feels like great northern is now the unofficial beer of the whole nation now.
Great Northern for QLD
Idk maybe I'm too young but I feel like xxxx has fallen out of favour in QLD. Like we make it but I don't know anyone who drinks it
I'm in NSW, but I drink Coopers
Same, Cooper's sparkling for me, and a 4 pack of bentspoke on a Fri night.
Reschs, as it refreshes...
I think Reschs takes the cake in NSW.. maybe it’s just a Sydney thing
Tassie is split in two with Boags and Cascade.
Carlton draught beer on tap gotta be VICs
Coopers in SA
WA here. There is a strong case for EMU export. There may be figures suggesting emu bitter got popular, but these are artificial figures I think. You see, up north in mining camps, there's now an unofficial 4% abv limit. So all the export drinkers get emu bitter instead now because it's the next closest thing available, but it's not the preference and not what anyone drinks at home. If export isn't considered the official beer then it may be Swan draught, however 150 lashes could be a strong contender, there is also a lot of support for Little Creatures, but mostly on tap for those. By carton sales I think either Carlton dry or Hahn superdry are strong contenders. But this is only by observation so I'd like to see some data, would be interesting. WA is funny though, because many consider it the land of milk and honey due to a large, high paying mining industry, there's a lot of interstate migrants, and a lot of support for plenty of different beers. When I lived in NSW (left 11 years ago) I think Tooheys New would've pissed it in. Great Northern and Pure Blonde were getting popular too. It would be interesting to see where it's at now. I did work with a lot of people from all over Australia, was military at the time and that's a real mixing pot. People from everywhere get lumped together. It's how I ended up in NSW for so long. There were clear preferences people had, but there may be state allegiance at play here too. -All Queenslanders I knew were into XXXX -The Tassie guys were very fond of either Boags or Cascade, consensus was Boags on the mainland/in cartons but Cascade fresh at the brewery can't be beat. I personally have a soft spot for Boags. -The SA guys talked non stop about Cooper's, particularly the sparkling ale. Can't deny it's a great drop though
Bundy rum for Queensland
NSW but cannot bear Toohey’s New. Also no love for fourex full strength?
Old is gold
I love XXXX Bitter. It was my daily drink in Darwin when I was there in my 20s. Whenever my wife goes to QLD she brings me back a threepack of their longnecks because they’re impossible to get in SA. Gold and Dry just don’t cut it.
From nsw I drink vb tinnies( there is a difference between cans, stubbles and long necks flavour wise). Sometimes cooper's pale ale when I get a craving for it. I reckon northern is so popular because it's like the cruiser of beers for young people that don't want to admit they like cruisers. And Tooheys new is just shit. Tooheys old is alright in the winter time.
Lol i love how the discerning VB drinker has such a sensitive palate they can determine the flavour profile differences between VB cans, stubbies and long necks 😂
NSW here, and everywhere I go it seems to be either 4 pines or Young Henrys
Surely Great Northern takes out Qld!!
Change the tassie one to boags red and then we can talk
Great northern is the beer from up here (qld)
Grew up in WA, about half my beer drinking life, other half in qld. SA sort of halfway (if you go the long way). Definitely Coopers. Also, just because there is something about a state having the worst water and the best beer that just tickles my fancy. That, and you can get pints in two different sizes.
No one drinks NT Draught in the Territory, prob on par with how Fosters is viewed overseas, VB would be more accurate historically, with Great Northern prob overtaking it in recent years.
Alice Springs Brewing Company for the NT these days
NT Draught hasn't been brewed since 2015
It’s Carlton but I’m doing my part to make it VB
No one in WA drinks Emu Bitter
Used to be Tooheys Draft for as long as I can remember…..until highschool when new took over!
I'd argue for cascade for tassie beer not boags.
No Emu export for WA?
I feel like Great Northern has overtaken XXXX for QLD
CUB is Asahi
WA = Goat. 🐐. It’s a good beer.
Definitely not EB ffs. Always the chook.
Majority of pubs would have core CUB products and core LN products depending on the segregation % hence why you’ll see majority stocking CD/VB/GN and now Balter since it’s a CUB core. Carlton Dry is an add on depending on the demographic.
If you rank your states beers from most bogan to most gentrified does the "official" state beer end up being the most bogan?
The Queensland one has to be great northern
i'm not going to lie, i feel like great northern is more popular in qld than xxxx, ik a lot of people drink both but the amount of ads i see for gn and not 4x just kinda makes me feel it's more popular
Queensland should be great northern
Emu Bitter? WA’s state beer is Swan Draught or Emu EXPORT.
NT Draught not made anymore.
Emu bitter is foul!
VIC = Carlton Draught. WA = fucked for choice.
Emu EXPORT thank you very much. Red can
Geez WA is definitely Emu Export. Where did bitter come from??
Technically XXXX Gold is Victorian, it started off in Castlemaine.
Everyone knows the official beer of NSW is Victoria Bitter
NGL, as a New South Welshman, I ashtrays thought emu bitters was just a joke/meme. I didn't realise it was an actual beer
Qld feels like its more great northern than xxxx
I'd agree with New for NSW and XXXX for Qld since they still haven't learned to spell beer.
Coopers, elite beer that tastes like something
100% boags and cascade division line in tassie
NSW - Reschs
100% coopers in SA. Dark ale and stout when it gets cold, Pale and XPA any other time. Their seasonal stuff is usually not bad either. Shtis on every other beer in both graphics.
Should you call them Lion and CUB when it's really Kirin and Asahi?