Alan....I have heard that Aussies drink their beer practically frozen...*grin* perhaps that is a comforting thing in the summer in the outback, but if the beer has ANY flavor, I like it just cool...(NOT warm!!) By the way, Pete, one of my proudest possessions is a bottle brought to me from New Zealand in a friends luggage. It is called 'Black Mac'...a dark ale from McCashin's Brewery in Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand (South Island)

(Alan, I also have a number of Aussie brews, but I really like stuff like Coopers Ale and Tooth's Stout..do they still make it?)

My fondest dream is to get to Oz & N.Z. some time and spend a year or so drinking, singing, and collecting exotic woods....