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I assume that your colonial youth was spent drinking XXXX (my colonial youth spent drinking McEwans Export, the original and worst IPA)?
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Oddly enough, no. XXXX didn't become a thing in Vic until after I'd left. Now it's definitely up there in terms of 'have a bbq, smash a box and you're still sober enough to drive'* beers.
*not really, but kind of yes really
I actually hated beer and was a bourbon drinker until uni, at which time beer basically became free. It was free cans/bottles of VB (horrible shit) that got me drinking beer. It was some cycling mates and Mountain Goat Brewery that got me into drinking nice beer though.
hippy
Thing is at this point in time I find most lagers very boring. It's all that crazy hopped up shit. Then I get sick of IPAs and go somewhere else. Nothing beats that first ice cold lager after running around Berlin for four hours trying to find a hotel or velodrome or whatever.