A kick in the teeth for beer lovers


Iirc, it won't even be that.

Sure there was some findings that a beer's true abv can be in a range due to it being a "live" product. And that some basic lagers were found to be almost half a percentage off the advertised.
The big brewers can control it easily, so don't need the margin of error provided.

So it'll most likely be well under 3.5 now

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Iirc, it won't even be that.

Sure there was some findings that a beer's true abv can be in a range due to it being a "live" product. And that some basic lagers were found to be almost half a percentage off the advertised.
The big brewers can control it easily, so don't need the margin of error provided.

So it'll most likely be well under 3.5 now

Reminds me of this story
 
I lived in Oz for 20+ years and nobody there drinks that piss.

Mind it is 5% over there
Have you still got 4X, my first ever pint, but just can't get it over here.
. My uncle still loves it and will avoid certain pubs as he doesn't like how they keep the Fosters. The silly old sod. :lol:
Keep the Fosters 😊 Oooi its been out the Kennel twice today, won't be good 😊Usually beer/ale types that are fusspots.
 
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The worst thing they did to Fosters was start putting it in the stupid shaped glasses... never tasted right in those. Was drinkable in the older style glasses. Cannot abide it now.
 
3.7% isn’t really an alcoholic drink, more something to drink with your lunch at work.

Not much different to what we were drinking in 70 and 80s but of course we drank greater quantity.
I would assume they are creating bigger differential in price to premium products which of course they can do as they will pay lower duty due to lower ABV, which can then be passed onto consumer. At this moment with even Wetherspoons pushing prices up there is a need to incentivise punters to stay in pubs . This is the brewers response.
 
Not a drink snob or out but dinnar how i used to drink it as a youngen

Absolutely rotten

Same here, used to sup 10 or 12 pints of the stuff back in 2000 ish. The last few times I drank it, it gave me a bad head after a couple and the shites, it's always been tasteless dishwater if I'm honest with myself.
Amstel is the king of the 4% lagers, lovely stuff. I've often supped it in the cricket club, not the cheapest but a really good pint.
 
3.6/3.7 was a standard ABV when I started drinking in the early eighties, maybe we are going back there.

Lager popularity goes in phases and Australia had its main success here in the mid eighties with Fosters and Castlemaine XXXX. Then you had the Becks and Grolsch cult, the bottles of Holsten Pils. Stella was the "quality" and then got the "wife beater" reputation. For a drink that largely tastes the same with some more flavour in the higher ABV, it relies on marketing, special glasses or 'drink it out of the wee bottle for twice the price', "got to have a slice of like with that", the "new" lager is always being pushed, Madri the latest. Everything has a little story attached, made up if course. My favourite was LCL Pils which dates me.

I rarely drink lager, often too fizzy and I feel bloated quickly. Last year I bought a couple of pints in a pub and the array of options was mind boggling - I think four or five lagers, none of which I had drunk before. In a pub with no cask ales and a couple of expensive craft IPA and lagers too, though they are never working.

Fosters is a slab lager in the way John Smith's is a slab bitter, quantity over quality, and in pubs is one of the cheaper brands. It has its place. If you like it fine, it obviously sells enough to have lasted this long.
 

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