Mobydisc said..

Cobra said..
Sands if your beers are getting warm, your talking to much
as for bar maids not knowing what pints are, its probably because they just turned 18
whats metric got to do with it beer was served in the first fleet days as pints,hold on to your/our heritage boys
don't sell out to the hipsters of the new world

I don't think a huge amount of beer was consumed by the first fleeters. They usually preferred rum which could be any sort of spirit. Until breweries got going in Sydney most people wanted rum. It would have been too expensive to transport beer from England to Australia when there was more bang for the buck with rum.

yep probably right about the rum... but beer was here and it was served

History[edit]18th century[edit]The history of Australian beer starts very early in Australia's colonial history. Captain James Cook brought beer with him on his ship Endeavour as a means of preserving drinking water. On 1 August 1768, as Cook was fitting out the Endeavour for its voyage, Nathaniel Hulme wrote to Joseph Banks with a recommendation:"a quantity of Molasses and Turpentine, in order to brew Beer with, for your daily drink, when your Water becomes bad. … [B]rewing Beer at sea will be peculiarly useful in case you should have stinking water on board; for I find by Experience that the smell of stinking water will be entirely destroyed by the process of fermentation."— Letter to Joseph Banks 1768

Was told by a girl who frequented the old Raffles Hotel around 8 years ago that a pint of beer was 11 dollars. Must be a lot more now.

She thought that was kind of cool,part of the attraction of the place for many i think,crazy as it sounds.

they closed the Glengarry tavern, but that certainly had a different ambiance to the more expensive boutique beer places