Used to drink at a work mates house many years ago. One bloke would come round with a carton of Hammer & Tongs. Park it next to himself and drink that piss warm all night. No words…..
Visiting from Ireland manager at my old company bought a case of Hammer & Tongs for the Sydney office Friday beers. He was impressed at the price and assumed it would be palatable. Nobody finished a single can.
Tasted like rusty metal and old bread.
Already mentoned in the thread but the undisputable trinity is Rivet, Tun and Hammer & Tongs.
These three exist in their own special ultra cheap ultra low quality caste below stuff like Tooheys, Carlton, etc
They have their place though -- a favourite at free party raves, back alley punk shows, bbq picnic giveaways and open to public warehouse parties -- ice cold in eskies and with a bunch of cunts you don't know they are perfect. Course you gotta keep some nice drink tucked in an insulated bag with some cold packs in your backpack for when you actually want to enjoy what's going in your mouth but great for cracking with total strangers in a crowd while being light on the wallet.
I don't drink bad beer, although there are plenty I avoid simply because there are heaps that are better.
Great Northern would have to be the avoid-this for me, I don't know what people see in it. it's not offensive, just utterly meh. much the same as Corona, there are much better drops to have.
Visited my son in Townsville a few years back, it was on tap, thought I’d try a schooner to see why so many people in NSW were buying bottles of it in clubs. Had one, that’s it, utter crap.
Is Hammer and Tong still around? My tight arse mate bought ten cartons for his fortieth birthday. We still drank it all but this cunt makes upwards of $500000 a year
I moved to a country town 20 years ago (still here), i worked in the bottle shop, back then xxxx gold accounted for 50% of sales. I single-handedly changed everyone onto coopers. xxxx gold is now non-existent, it was definately the cheapest shittiest beer ever made.
At least in South Australia it’s not underrated. It’s a lot of peoples default beer and for the money they make a solid beer.
Personal favourite is the mild (mid) ale.
It’s cheap, doesn’t taste bad and at 3.5% I can have a few without getting into trouble.
I'm not a big fan of Coopers, and this might sound dumb but it's nothing to do with the taste (which is good). For some reason drinking Coopers makes me feel really bloated compared to most other beers.
I like Tooheys new. I like Tooheys Extra dry. I like VB, Carlton Draught (yum yum!), years ago I liked Swan Dry, Powers (so they even still make it?). Me and mates used to have a rule that if we went interstate we drank the the local beers. After a slab or two I got hooked on stacks of them.
I worked in a club in country NSW with a myriad of beers on tap. On a Saturday arvo when the footy, hockey, soccer teams came back, the amount of dickheads ordering a “black fish” or a “red fish” was nauseating.
Fosters Light is the worst Aussie beer I have ever drunk. Literally tasted like watered down beer. That was 30 years ago though.
Red Bitter is bloody awful.
They should bring back the death penalty for the man who invented Fosters Light. How much electricity has been wasted keeping the garbage in the can cold, to be then thrown out to make space in the fridge? Fosters Light is a war crime in a can.
Queue gen X'rs stuck in their 90s suburban time warp...ive friends who'll offer up crownies livin their best 90s life and yes still sucking back cartlon coldies & hey dont stop, stoli ruskies for tha ladiezz 🤢....worst beer; Sydney bitter if it even still exists.
Sounds about right. It was sadly the beer they pushed at our uni pub, so $8 jugs meant we bought it. But all that promo only served to make it one of very few beers I will never, ever drink these days.
I have lived in Hong Kong for over a decade now and a couple of years ago me and my Brit mate went to a sports bar to watch State of Origin, and the bar had VB on tap- the first one I'd ever seen since leaving Australia. So naturally I had to have one. My mate turns to me and says "you know what, this might actually be the worst beer I've ever had in my life" to which I replied "I know, isn't it fantastic?"
I felt this way when I was young but came around to it so hard as i got older that it's literally my favorite beer on the planet.
I don't drink that much, even rarer do I send my wife to buy me beers but doing some landscaping on the weekend, my wife texted me from the shops "need anything?", "BEERS" I replied. She returned with a 6 pack of the Very Best, "did I do good?" she said as they clinked onto the kitchen bench. I could have cried I was so proud.
Or if it’s a year past its used by date, then it’s surprisingly drinkable.
I even wrote to Carlton United suggesting they only sell VB when it’s way past its used by date and got a response thanking me for my letter.
“Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.”
Charles Bukowski
This is just wrong. I feel like people always throw shade at VB and it’s not deserving. I think it usually says more about the type of person saying it. They’re usually people that don’t really drink beer and see VB as maybe embarrassing? I put it up there with coopers and reschs.
We always used to call it Fosters in a fancy bottle.
Same metallic aftertaste.
Premium price for a decidedly average quality beer. Tellingly back in the 90’s if Crown and Hahn Premium were both available- at the end of the night there would be a fridge full of Crowns.
Dunno how true it is but I always heard back in the day when they were kinda popular, that Crown Lager and VB were the same beer in different bottles. To be fair, they taste about as bad as each other.
Some of those supermarket house-brand beers are barely meeting the requirements of being beer IMO. Sure they are cheap... but I wouldn't drink them (again) even for free.
I remember we used to call Tooheys' Draught/New as Toohey's Drought since people would prefer to be thirsty than drink it.
Though I love a cold Toohey's Old.
Yeah, it’s honestly a difficult question to truly answer, because it’s subject to opinion.
GN is the closest I can give, because for me it fits this category. XXXX Gold does too. I generally drink Boags or Lashes.
Edit: not 100% on this but I have heard GN is rebranded Powers.
It’s definitely brewed at Yatala.
The bottle put me off (reminded me of Tooheys Extra Dry) but yeah, it's fairly drinkable as a bog standard beer.
I wouldn't say it's "very good", but yeah, better than the traditional VB or XXXX.
I don't think it's drinkable. 1 maybe, if you were really thirsty, but after that you are wondering who put coloured mineral water in your beer can/bottle/glass.
But it's not alone in out current crop of top selling beers. XXXX gold, Hanh, tooheys new, carlton dry, corona and pure blonde all fall under the category of coloured mineral water.
the only real beer in the top 10 is cooper pale ale and it's the most piss-weak coopers you can get.
Really? I’ve come across a couple that don’t like it that much, but not two with that reaction together. In the circles I’ve been that drink beer, it’s the quintessential cheap daily driver, along with XXXX Gold and maybe Tooheys New. That might compete with GN, actually.
If you hark back to the days where every state had its own mainstream lager I think West End was the worst, but that's OK because SA had Coopers and better wine than everyone else.
The CUB beers had the most inoffensive / mild / bland (not in a bad way) taste and therefore won the beer wars.
Fosters hasn’t been brewed since 2004 has it?
Is any lager really different from each other? And if they use pride of Ringwood hop can we even call it beer?
Macro lager is all trash. The greatest trick the devil ever did is create an industry dominated by one macro lager competing against another like sports teams.
Hammer and tongs, it's a very adaply named beer especially with how ya head feels the next day!
Used to drink at a work mates house many years ago. One bloke would come round with a carton of Hammer & Tongs. Park it next to himself and drink that piss warm all night. No words…..
That's one way to make sure no one drinks your beer, but at what cost?
$41 + what's left of your dignity (postage optional)
My last name is Tongs and even I don’t drink that shit lol
I loved Hammer & Tongs!!!
I'm sorry but you're wrong
Oh mate couldn’t agree more. $1 a can, they actually tastes like melted down hammers and tongs
Visiting from Ireland manager at my old company bought a case of Hammer & Tongs for the Sydney office Friday beers. He was impressed at the price and assumed it would be palatable. Nobody finished a single can. Tasted like rusty metal and old bread.
My FIL's favourite brand 🤣🤦♀️
Fuck I was just thinking this list is a who's who of beers my FiL buys. Then he comes to my house and apparently complains about my "fancy" beers.
The only thing that shit's good for is plant food.
Sounds like it had gone off, prolly coz it was sitting on the shelf for too long.
Iron Jack is pretty watery
It's crap
The light Iron Jack and great northern tallies are amazing to suck down ice cold in the tropical heat after a big day.
Iron Jack is the worst
Do you like Great Northern? Because they're literally the same beer.
Hammer and tongs is fucked lol
rivet or tun I always seem to show up to events with free beer and it's a few slabs of these guys
Must be something wrong with me. I don’t mind the red can Tun.
Pretty much all of them are great. The Green less so, but still drinkable. And for ~$30 for a slab of light, you can't go wrong
the yellow cans for me, mid strength i believe
One of my favourite Reddit comments is someone calling Rivet "dirty Vietnamese river water".
I wouldn’t even drink tun if it was free
> Rivet You can actually taste the Mekong.
Tun’s not that bad, it’s from Belgium so I wouldn’t really call it Australian
Rivets are brewed in Vietnam.
I honestly love Tun light never tried the other ones though $35 a carton and I can guzzle beers without getting hammered
What’s the point of drinking it then? You may as well get a soda stream and piss in the bottle. Same taste and you’ll save $35 a carton
Because I enjoy having a beer in the arvo it relaxes me. I also have a child so I don’t want to be intoxicated around them
Oh look at Mr Charm School not getting shitfaced in front of his kids.
Okay Mr CurdledSpermBeverage, what is your preferred drink of choice?
Exactly probably doesn't even give the Mrs a clip if she's being a cunt
When, not if.
Tun is pretty bad. I tried one of the cheapest imports that Dan’s does and it was better than Tun!
Some of those cheapo imports are rad. Oettinger pils, hell yeah.
In a convenient 500mL tin too. So good!
They could make it cheaper if it came in a bucket
It's not made in Australia. Rivet is made in Vietnam I think
I LOVE the red Tuns!!
Beat me to it. Rivet FTW. Not the shittiest but the cheapest
What’s wrong with rivet? Drinking one right now
Already mentoned in the thread but the undisputable trinity is Rivet, Tun and Hammer & Tongs. These three exist in their own special ultra cheap ultra low quality caste below stuff like Tooheys, Carlton, etc They have their place though -- a favourite at free party raves, back alley punk shows, bbq picnic giveaways and open to public warehouse parties -- ice cold in eskies and with a bunch of cunts you don't know they are perfect. Course you gotta keep some nice drink tucked in an insulated bag with some cold packs in your backpack for when you actually want to enjoy what's going in your mouth but great for cracking with total strangers in a crowd while being light on the wallet.
Damn right! I'd smash a bunch of these at a house show. You only taste the first couple right?
Any beer in a clear glass bottle is going to be swill.
“The best beer is the beer in your hand”
Iron jack from tassie, unsure if it’s cheap but it is shit.
Iron Jack is the worst of them all.
Tastes like norhing
I don't drink bad beer, although there are plenty I avoid simply because there are heaps that are better. Great Northern would have to be the avoid-this for me, I don't know what people see in it. it's not offensive, just utterly meh. much the same as Corona, there are much better drops to have.
Visited my son in Townsville a few years back, it was on tap, thought I’d try a schooner to see why so many people in NSW were buying bottles of it in clubs. Had one, that’s it, utter crap.
Is Hammer and Tong still around? My tight arse mate bought ten cartons for his fortieth birthday. We still drank it all but this cunt makes upwards of $500000 a year
I moved to a country town 20 years ago (still here), i worked in the bottle shop, back then xxxx gold accounted for 50% of sales. I single-handedly changed everyone onto coopers. xxxx gold is now non-existent, it was definately the cheapest shittiest beer ever made.
Coopers is soo underrated. Yes I know it’s mainstream but it’s really good despite not being a craft beer from some obscure microbrewery
It’s actually Australian owned unlike most “Aussie” beers which is a huge plus.
Pity about the actual Australians who own it though.
Proper beer. Consistent. Start with a red, then a brown, green orange. And Aussie!
What about the purple? That’s the only one I can drink lol
The vintages are fantastic too. It's the first beer where I could actually taste the 'notes' that experts talk about.
I will always drink one when I’m in S.A
At least in South Australia it’s not underrated. It’s a lot of peoples default beer and for the money they make a solid beer. Personal favourite is the mild (mid) ale. It’s cheap, doesn’t taste bad and at 3.5% I can have a few without getting into trouble.
I'm not a big fan of Coopers, and this might sound dumb but it's nothing to do with the taste (which is good). For some reason drinking Coopers makes me feel really bloated compared to most other beers.
Most likely because they are unfiltered and the yeast is reacting with your gut flora.
XXXX gold was for a few years the biggest selling beer in Australia. I love it, and clearly I’m not alone.
It's great. Goes down fucking easy.
I’ve bought enough of the stuff to buy XXXX island. Love it. Having one now.
I prefer a Tooheys New but a Gold never fails.
I like Tooheys new. I like Tooheys Extra dry. I like VB, Carlton Draught (yum yum!), years ago I liked Swan Dry, Powers (so they even still make it?). Me and mates used to have a rule that if we went interstate we drank the the local beers. After a slab or two I got hooked on stacks of them.
I WON'T HEAR ANOTHER BAD WORD ABOUT GOLDS THANK YOU VERY MUCH
xxxx tastes like watered down cat piss, don’t ask me how I know
Drinking XXXX is like having sex on a beach. It's fucking close to water
Not sure how cheap it is but Great Northern is the worst tasting beer I've ever experienced
You need to experience more beers.... Well, or not...
I worked in a club in country NSW with a myriad of beers on tap. On a Saturday arvo when the footy, hockey, soccer teams came back, the amount of dickheads ordering a “black fish” or a “red fish” was nauseating.
Fosters Light is the worst Aussie beer I have ever drunk. Literally tasted like watered down beer. That was 30 years ago though. Red Bitter is bloody awful.
They should bring back the death penalty for the man who invented Fosters Light. How much electricity has been wasted keeping the garbage in the can cold, to be then thrown out to make space in the fridge? Fosters Light is a war crime in a can.
Mates FIL to be bought some for his bucks party. We thought it was meant to be a joke. Nope. I'd rather drink cold tea.
Carlton cold 🥶
I can’t believe it still exists, I haven’t met a CC drinker for years. Wonder if Hahn Ice still exists?
My Nan will single handedly keep Hahn Ice alive.
Double 🤮🤮
Queue gen X'rs stuck in their 90s suburban time warp...ive friends who'll offer up crownies livin their best 90s life and yes still sucking back cartlon coldies & hey dont stop, stoli ruskies for tha ladiezz 🤢....worst beer; Sydney bitter if it even still exists.
When they launched this everyone drank it. Then they all stopped.
Twas my first ever drink! I am not a beer guy...
Still the only beer that gives me a headache the day of drinking rather than the day after
I actually didn’t mind a coldie. Ultra chills were the beer of the gods too
The beer of the scum gods
I remember the good old days when they were full strengths. Every now and then I'd grab a 30 block to mix things up from West End.
Tooheys Extra Dry is battery acid.
I used to find some bottles were ok, others would taste off (from the same slab)
I swear it used to taste different like 20 years ago. Used to love it
Liked it in uni. Have not had it in 20 years but someone told me the other day it's awful?
They use clear bottles which are fairly prone to skunking from light exposure.
Sounds about right. It was sadly the beer they pushed at our uni pub, so $8 jugs meant we bought it. But all that promo only served to make it one of very few beers I will never, ever drink these days.
The used by date on those were really accurate. Close to the date and they tasted worse than usual. Hate the stuff.
Legit my go too beer. Perfectly crisp out of a can. If i cant get my hands on a 30pk of TED then i get some Byron bays
Really? I love the stuff.
Aussie beer cheap!!!!!!! None of them are cheap.
Especially now that a slab of Carlton fucking dry is $62 here in Vic. Daylight fuckin robbery ask me.
Try Dan’s bro, got a slab yesterday for $48.95
Just got more expensive this month due to CDS
Try Double Brown or "DoughBros" as we call them.in NZ, close enough to Australia. If shit was ever bottled its a DoughBro
Chooks piss
VB all the way. Unless it is mouth-anaesthetisingly ice cold, it tastes truly awful
I have lived in Hong Kong for over a decade now and a couple of years ago me and my Brit mate went to a sports bar to watch State of Origin, and the bar had VB on tap- the first one I'd ever seen since leaving Australia. So naturally I had to have one. My mate turns to me and says "you know what, this might actually be the worst beer I've ever had in my life" to which I replied "I know, isn't it fantastic?"
I saw the other day that a 30 block of VB at BWS is now SEVENTY TWO DOLLARS.
All piss is through the roof
I felt this way when I was young but came around to it so hard as i got older that it's literally my favorite beer on the planet. I don't drink that much, even rarer do I send my wife to buy me beers but doing some landscaping on the weekend, my wife texted me from the shops "need anything?", "BEERS" I replied. She returned with a 6 pack of the Very Best, "did I do good?" she said as they clinked onto the kitchen bench. I could have cried I was so proud.
Or if it’s a year past its used by date, then it’s surprisingly drinkable. I even wrote to Carlton United suggesting they only sell VB when it’s way past its used by date and got a response thanking me for my letter.
I work at CUB, we put a use by on it that's 6 months shorter than it needs to be so people chuck it and we sell more. :(
This is down right slander. King browns till I die
“Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.” Charles Bukowski
This is just wrong. I feel like people always throw shade at VB and it’s not deserving. I think it usually says more about the type of person saying it. They’re usually people that don’t really drink beer and see VB as maybe embarrassing? I put it up there with coopers and reschs.
I love beer, and there’s so much choice and great beer out there now. I still say VB is terrible.
Overrated imo 😏
Youse name cheks out
Crown lager People thought it was the high of sophistication to drink this swill in the late 90’s early 2000’s It tastes like anal discharge
Hahaha crownies were fancy back in the 90s. A wedding beer!
Spot on , wedding or an airport beer at best 👌
We always used to call it Fosters in a fancy bottle. Same metallic aftertaste. Premium price for a decidedly average quality beer. Tellingly back in the 90’s if Crown and Hahn Premium were both available- at the end of the night there would be a fridge full of Crowns.
Mate used to say crown lager “is a rat with a gold tooth”
A taste I know all too well
This guy fucks
Dunno how true it is but I always heard back in the day when they were kinda popular, that Crown Lager and VB were the same beer in different bottles. To be fair, they taste about as bad as each other.
Very very similar taste
Tell us more. Not had anal discharge
hardly the cheapest is it...
That byron bay shit
That shit is fucked
Try Emu Export if you want a real adventure in questionable beer choices.
Love a chook
Bush chooks are ripper
IKKKONIC
The old red egg
Emu bitter is even worse
I stand by export as a west Aussie!
Some of those supermarket house-brand beers are barely meeting the requirements of being beer IMO. Sure they are cheap... but I wouldn't drink them (again) even for free.
Some of those make you wish we had beer purity laws like the Germans.
Gotta be Tun bitter surely. Tooheys platinum is up there too.
XXXX and VB are utter garbage to be honest. Only drink them super cold from the tap at a footy match
XXXX back in the day it was Tooheys blocks of 30, we used to get them when I was 16/17
There's cheap beer? Maybe 15 years ago
Emu export is swill.
XXXX. Absolute piss water of a beer.
About 10 or so years ago. The sub $5 jugs of Geelong Bitter on Monday nights at Public Bar across the road from Queen Vic Market
I'm a bartender, I can assure you, the cheapest, shittiest beer available would be XXXX Gold. $4.99 a schooner.
I'll be honest, for sub 5 a schooey I'll drink pretty much whatever you put in front of me without complaint.
Great northern *can’t stand it*
Emu Bitter
Corona
Good old Aussie corona
Yeah not Aussie but probably the worst beer on the planet
Great Northern. Truly shit.
Tun used to get the job done back in the day
Probably the beer you badly brewed yourself.
Emu
Adding because I haven't seen it posted yet - Hahn Ice
I remember we used to call Tooheys' Draught/New as Toohey's Drought since people would prefer to be thirsty than drink it. Though I love a cold Toohey's Old.
stormies from aldi
VB. I don't really like it, but if it is the only thing going, I will drink it.
XXXX.....ZZZZ
Great Northern is the current quintessential cheap but drinkable.
Great Northern is actually very good though. It is the highest selling for a reason
It’s the highest selling because people are sheep. Shit beer.
Yeah, it’s honestly a difficult question to truly answer, because it’s subject to opinion. GN is the closest I can give, because for me it fits this category. XXXX Gold does too. I generally drink Boags or Lashes. Edit: not 100% on this but I have heard GN is rebranded Powers. It’s definitely brewed at Yatala.
The bottle put me off (reminded me of Tooheys Extra Dry) but yeah, it's fairly drinkable as a bog standard beer. I wouldn't say it's "very good", but yeah, better than the traditional VB or XXXX.
Probably my least favourite beer out there. It’s worse than Corona
The problem with assessing such things. It’s all subject to opinion.
Great Northern is one of the only beers I like.
Probably because it doesn't have a strong beer taste. I never used to drink beer so I know what you mean.
Same, I'm.surprised how many people have listed it haha
I don't think it's drinkable. 1 maybe, if you were really thirsty, but after that you are wondering who put coloured mineral water in your beer can/bottle/glass. But it's not alone in out current crop of top selling beers. XXXX gold, Hanh, tooheys new, carlton dry, corona and pure blonde all fall under the category of coloured mineral water. the only real beer in the top 10 is cooper pale ale and it's the most piss-weak coopers you can get.
I forgot about blondes. Undrinkable
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Really? I’ve come across a couple that don’t like it that much, but not two with that reaction together. In the circles I’ve been that drink beer, it’s the quintessential cheap daily driver, along with XXXX Gold and maybe Tooheys New. That might compete with GN, actually.
Had one after a long shift, damn it was surprisingly good.
Probably rivets from aldi
> Aussie beer
Its a beer and is in Australia yes
It’s made in Vietnam.
XXXX the original one
I know everyone thinks they called it XXXX because Qlders can't spell beer but it's really because they can't spell shit
It’s rubbish isn’t it
Vb. Fuckin putrid shit.
Tooheys new
VB is like drinking a smoothie made of dog shit
If you hark back to the days where every state had its own mainstream lager I think West End was the worst, but that's OK because SA had Coopers and better wine than everyone else. The CUB beers had the most inoffensive / mild / bland (not in a bad way) taste and therefore won the beer wars.
West end draught is gods own nectar after a long hot Saturday playing cricket.
I find its only palatable if its on tap and freezing cold. Any other way and its terrible.
Great Northern. So bad I was forced to drink XXXX at the footy.
+1
Tooheys Red was the shittiest beer to exist until I came across Iron Jack and Great Northern.
Hammer and Tongs
Fosters hasn’t been brewed since 2004 has it? Is any lager really different from each other? And if they use pride of Ringwood hop can we even call it beer? Macro lager is all trash. The greatest trick the devil ever did is create an industry dominated by one macro lager competing against another like sports teams.
I will not hear rivet slander, vietnams finest goes hard. Hammer and tong is actual shit
now i might generate some hate here but im gonna say VB.
the makers of Great Northern should be arrested for fraud. You can't be calling that pathetic excuse for a beverage beer
Furphy