The Anonymous Widower

The Worst Beer I Ever Had

As a coeliac, I don’t drink beer, except for the occasional one from Green’s which is gluten free. 

However watching the cricket from Australia has reminded me how bad their beer is.  When I went to Australia with C, I hadn’t been diagnosed as a coeliac, but as a proper man from Suffolk, I only drunk real ale and of course in a country like Germany, their real lager.  So I think virtually before we got to Australia, I had decided that I’d stick to the excellent wines and totally ignore the Fosters and the other products of chemical works.

I was also piloting an aircraft around the country, so obviously safety was paramount and alcohol was low down on my priorities.

I was  tempted once to have a beer and that was in a five-star hotel in Alice Springs. It was in a can, which is not the right place for any alcoholic drink anyway and called a Red Centre.

It was so bad, I gave up after perhaps a third of a glass.  I remember C was very surprised, as she always felt I could drink anything.

Talking of beers in cans, my father used to drink something called Long Life, which was a beer in the 1960s, that they said was brewed specifically for the can.  I did have a few at the time and the taste was not unlike the Green’s gluten-free beer I drink now., but rather gassy, with a chalky aftertaste. A good way to lose money would be to start brewing Long Life again, but then never underestimate beer drinkers’ taste.  Just advertise it a lot.

Incidentally, I’ve never drunk, anything like Fosters or Carling.  Trying Watney’s Red Barrel in the 1960s put me off that sort of so-called beer for life. But then I always had Adnams, Greene King, Youngs or Fullers on hand in Suffolk or London.

December 26, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Food, Transport/Travel, World | Australia, Beer, Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Flying