BF>> What I'e foud out it's only we here in the north that drinks half-dark
BF>> beer.

 CS> Australia though has to be added.  They brought their love of darker
 CS> english beers with them. From memory, about 1/2 the tap beers at Kitty
 CS> O'sheas (nice bar in Darwin) were dark ones.  The only one I liked was a
 CS> middling one, called a 'red beer' (between dark and light, with a slightly
 CS> reddish cast to it).

That's what we call Bavarian beer.

 CS> I settled on VB (Victoria Bitter) as my favorite tap beer there but there
 CS> were several others I liked well enough.

There aren't really many bad beers. Most of them are rather good.

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