Australian beer??? #
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 09:46 GMT
I suppose the reward for not giving information is 24 bottles per month.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 09:46 GMT
I suppose the reward for not giving information is 24 bottles per month.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 09:46 GMT
I've got an old Toshiba Satellite 4600 which should be worth a few month's lager, at least.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 09:46 GMT
I suppose the catch is that you have to live in (or near) Rotarua. The place stinks.
12 bottles a month! Have they asked the UK government for advice on how much people should be drinking? Although it does not mention how big the bottles are. I think 10 litres should be ok. That's almost 4 litres a day so it's not looking too bad. Sorry, I can't remember the proper units of measurement.
120 / (365.25 / 12) = almost 4.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 09:46 GMT
If I was the bloke that stole the laptop, I'd hold out for a better deal. Perhaps their competitors might be willing to offer 12 beers a day...
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 10:00 GMT
It's like bloody ISPs offering 'unlimited broadband' as long as it's under 15gb!!
grumble grumble
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 10:00 GMT
12 bottles a month! Might as well sell it on SheepBay and get wankered on the proceeds!
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 10:00 GMT
> A dozen bottles of beers is a meager ration that would
> barely get a Reg hack though lunchtime
Yebbut, I guess this NZ beer must taste really really awful.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 10:00 GMT
It appears the links dont work in FF, try IE...
http://www.croucherbrewing.co.nz/news.html
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 10:00 GMT
I am not going to buy a ticket to newzealand and beat natives for a thing for such a miserly sum of twelve a month that brewery is run by an idiot two kegs a month and I'll fly down and seek citizenship to route out the data nappers
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 13:57 GMT
Sam,
The bottles are 330ml. Unfortunate that the old fashioned 750ml (tallies) bottles aren't really being done anymore. A crate of 750ml a month may have made a bit of a dent in the monthly beer expenditure.
As for the comments about the quality of kiwi beer, I must protest! Please don't confuse kiwi beer with that pishwater from across the ditch!
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 13:57 GMT
Just as some lottery winners can elect to receive their winnings in one lump sum, how about this: Having chosen an ultra healthy lifestyle based on a diet of brazil nuts, organic salmon, Waitrose broccoli, Israeli strawberries and pure Madagascar sugar free dark choco, plus the ongoing advances in bio technology and cyborg implants - then assuming I don't forget to look out for a No. 38 bus when jay walking Upper Street, N1, I could well live for at least 300 years. (Perish the thought!) That equals 43200 bottles of Kiwi Wiwi, and I'll take it now please. Beer is for sharing, so I'll throw a rave just off the M25. I know a friendly (read: desperate) farmer whose fields are empty due to some recent medical ailments with his cows. BBQ anyone?
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 13:57 GMT
Or, and this is just a suggestion, what you COULD do, is provide us with some punctuation so we know what the hell you're talking about.
Or is the brewery really run by an idiot two kegs?
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 13:57 GMT
New Zealand beer != Australian beer
NZ has a healthy micro-brewey industry, and even some of the larger producers (eg. Monteiths) make a varied range of beers. And although some of it wouldn't be of taste to ale-drinkers it most certainly isn't anything like that gnat's p*** they sell in Australia.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 13:57 GMT
For what its worth, a 'bottle' in NZ tends to be 750ml, not these weaner 330ml things you get over here in Europe.
Still, your average Kiwi bloke will get through a 'crate' (12x) of bottles in a night at a good bash.
Posted Friday 19th October 2007 17:44 GMT
Or maybe one quarter full. Whatever - 12 beers a month is still 12 beers a month that *I* wouldn't have to buy. Free beer is free beer, even if it isn't a LOT of free beer.
Now all the thieving sod has to do is move to the US Mid-Atlantic coast and contact me - I'm not going very far at all for that amount of free beer.
Posted Saturday 20th October 2007 16:12 GMT
thou must now be flogged by the sholin monks that have learned chuck norris's secret for not using proper El Reg units. Have thoust not read the rules of The El Reg club? all units of measurement be in El Reg units....
Posted Saturday 20th October 2007 16:27 GMT
The offer is from a ex-pat Scot who wants to educate the Kiwis into the Divine social excess of single malt instead of Powerpoint !
Posted Saturday 20th October 2007 18:08 GMT
Chances are he's Australian, so I'll name him Bruce.
Now where's my beer, and my coat.
Posted Monday 22nd October 2007 04:11 GMT
NZ beer isn't bad at all. But for me I go through around 6 bottles a night so only 2 nights worth a month isn't enough for me. Plus I don't live in Rotarua. 330ml is the standard but crate bottles would be better
Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 09:35 GMT
While it's true that the vast majority of Australian beer is utter rubbish, we do have a fantastic micro brewery industry - certainly here in Western Australia.
At least our beer isn't as bad as the Septic Tanks!
Why is American beer like sex in a Canadian canoe?
'cause they're both f*ing close to water.
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