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It is my unfortunate experience when travelling (particularly in the USA and UK) that hosts think that offering a visiting Australian a Fosters beer is a positive and considerate act. Most countries spend a fortune on processing and storing toxic waste. In Australia we put it in cans/bottles and sell it as Fosters (as noted elsewhere) to unsuspecting buyers overseas! (we also adopt this practice with embarassing personalities and TV shows which we sell to the UK - think Neighbours, Home and Away, Cell Block H). Perhaps in hindsight it is an act of revenge by the hosts.

This practise seems to have been discovered in some quarters however as we cannot find any buyers overseas for our other toxic disguise attempts such as "West" End Beer - with the great taste of Mud!.

Now dog-bolter thats a beer!

Dog-Bolter is indeed a tasty brew

I think it might be called that becuase of the reaction of dogs to the stuff? Hhmm... think I'll stick to my XXXX...

Actually, you will find on the back of most 'Australian' beer cans words to the effect of 'Brewed in the EU'. Well, here in the UK anyway; trade description laws in most of Continental Europe actually forbid it to be marketed as beer, and rightly so. Castlemaine, a particularly vile example, was until fairly recently brewed next to the old gasworks in Northampton.

If I ever get around to visiting Australia, I'm going to try the local Fosters for myself. I've no doubt it'll be infinitely better.

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Fosters is bad. You might find it hard to get here.