Beer world cup: Australia vs Italy

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The trouble is that Australia just didn’t perform and for once the winner of this stage of the FIFA (Fuck I can’t Face Another) Beer World Cup.
For this match I pitted Australian microbrewery drops with some mainstream Italian. First the Holgate Brewhouse Mt Macedon Pale Ale (4.5 per cent),a great local beer. But despite resting on it’s side for four hours since shooting (the pic) shot its load. Most of its contents frothed out of the bottle leaving less than half to drink. Plus it tasted a bit odd. I think it may have been (crown) corked.
Then the Mountain Goat Pale Ale (4,5 per cent) which is, apparently, “Bottled but not tamed”. Well, it was tamer than the Mt Macedon. But the yeast was floating wild. I’m not just talking about a cloud of yeast drifting through the glass but nasty brown clumps of the yeast making this quite unattractive to drink.
For Italy I first fielded Birra Moretti. At 4.6 per cent, it was brewed by Heineken in Milan and imported by the Heneken Lion joint venture into Australia. It’s a perfectly refreshing generic lager style beer. But to be quite honest I may as well have been drinking Heineken, which is now brewed locally.
Finally, the Peroni Gran Riserva coming in at a hefty 6.6 per cent. The extra alcohol gave the hops extra kick. It had flavour. The winner? Italy, of course.
I didn’t see that one coming.

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