Austriallia is on fire chat here

[Gillian Densmore]

Rus the news  here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to NZ or the US if need be for saftey reasons?

and how's the beer there? that's the question I suspect fam would like to know if they considered Aus?

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[Russell Standish-2]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:39:16PM -0700, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Rus the news  here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH
> DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to NZ or
> the US if need be for saftey reasons?

Its not as bad as that. The people in Syria have it far worse! A
number of people have lost their lives, of course, and an incredible
10,000 or so homes lost, but the community is rallying.

A friend once described our house as the last one left standing in
Sydney - we're perched on a cliff, overlooking the ocean, some 30+
metres above sea level (I think we'd survive anything short of total
collapse of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

> and how's the beer there? that's the question I suspect fam would like to know
> if they considered Aus?

Pretty similar to the US, I suspect. We have quite a few
microbreweries now, a good choice of craft ales, a far cry from when I
was a young bloke, when we had a choice of two fairly similarly tasting
lagers.

What really is excellent (and cheap) are Aussie wines.

Cheers
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[Gary Schiltz-4]

Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries), I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was the major appeal.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Russell Standish <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:39:16PM -0700, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Rus the news  here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH
> DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to NZ or
> the US if need be for saftey reasons?

Its not as bad as that. The people in Syria have it far worse! A
number of people have lost their lives, of course, and an incredible
10,000 or so homes lost, but the community is rallying.

A friend once described our house as the last one left standing in
Sydney - we're perched on a cliff, overlooking the ocean, some 30+
metres above sea level (I think we'd survive anything short of total
collapse of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

> and how's the beer there? that's the question I suspect fam would like to know
> if they considered Aus?

Pretty similar to the US, I suspect. We have quite a few
microbreweries now, a good choice of craft ales, a far cry from when I
was a young bloke, when we had a choice of two fairly similarly tasting
lagers.

What really is excellent (and cheap) are Aussie wines.

Cheers
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[Russell Standish-2]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 06:12:53PM -0500, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries),
> I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint
> Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was
> the major appeal.

Funnily enough, when I was young bloke, but old enough to drink beer,
the two varieties in my state (WA) were Swan lager and Emu
bitter. Fosters is a Victorian beer, to all intents and purposes a
foreign imported beer at the time. How times have changed!



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