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Larry - 23 Jul 2008 02:39 GMT

Great radio station...nice variety for a change instead of the electronic
banging for hours:
http://bcast1.qld.abbn.tv:80/austmade160.ogg
In stereo....(c;

Sorry...no iTunes. Free from Xiph.

Goes great with XXXX, Fosters, Hahn's at the Barbie....(c;

Xiph is up to 1,365 streams. Who's so stupid to pay for it?

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zwsdotcom@gmail.com - 23 Jul 2008 04:16 GMT

> Great radio station...nice variety for a change instead of the electronic

> Goes great with XXXX, Fosters, Hahn's at the Barbie....(c;

Can you even get XXXX in the US? The only beer I've seen here from
home is Fosters, which is the Budweiser of Australian beers. And the
Fosters here isn't even brewed in Aus; it's brewed in Canada so they
can label it "imported".

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anonymousNetUser - 23 Jul 2008 05:06 GMT

>> Great radio station...nice variety for a change instead of the electronic
>
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> Fosters here isn't even brewed in Aus; it's brewed in Canada so they
> can label it "imported".

Some places in the US can get Coopers, but I've never seen XXXX or
Victoria Bitters.

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Larry - 23 Jul 2008 17:29 GMT

>> Great radio station...nice variety for a change instead of the
>> electronic
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Fosters here isn't even brewed in Aus; it's brewed in Canada so they
> can label it "imported".

In Charleston we have a wine store that occupies an entire old supermarket
building...the entire floor space! The beer section has an amazing array
of beers I've never seen before anywhere in the USA, all kinds of crazy
beers from exotic places.

The wine array is superb! Little tiny wineries in France at amazing
prices.

Yeah, they got all the Oz beers....including XXXX.

They got all the English ales, too! Yum Yum!

I think he imports the stuff, himself, because there is no American
distributor markings on the cans/bottles/kegs like there usually is.

no webpage, I looked.

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zwsdotcom@gmail.com - 24 Jul 2008 10:53 GMT

> Yeah, they got all the Oz beers....including XXXX.

If they have Carlton Cold, I'd consider it worth a trip to SC to get
some.

> I think he imports the stuff, himself, because there is no American
> distributor markings on the cans/bottles/kegs like there usually is.

I've been told by people who have stronger ties back to the motherland
that the major brewery there explicitly does not allow export of
anything other than Fosters, because they put all their marketing $$$
into that one beer and don't want to dilute the [crazy] idea that
"Foster's is Australian for beer".

There are a few places that sell various graymarket imports, e.g.
<http://beergeek.stores.yahoo.net/cospale12b.html> but they can't ship
to NY, where I am, because of some ridiculous Puritan-era law.

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Larry - 24 Jul 2008 20:41 GMT

zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote in news:b0c9c9d2-c69a-41ce-b201-8d594718f198
@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

> because of some ridiculous Puritan-era law.

In NY, especially NYC, I bet it has more to do with old Mafia families
controlling the booze business than it does with Puritan-era law.

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Michael N. Paris - 25 Jul 2008 19:00 GMT

I've been told by people who have stronger ties back to the motherland
that the major brewery there explicitly does not allow export of
anything other than Fosters, because they put all their marketing $$$
into that one beer and don't want to dilute the [crazy] idea that
"Foster's is Australian for beer".

Exactly, and quite odd since Fosters in North America is brewed by
Molson/Coors in Canada.

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