Found out this interesting fact last night.
No-one believes me when I tell them this, but Crown Lager and Fosters Lager are the SAME BEER!!! I find this amusing because no self respecting Aussie would be caught dead drinking a can of Fosters, but they will glady pay twice the price for a bottle of Crown. Crown Lager is simply a good batch of Fosters, (with respect to its specifications - colour, bitterness etc), that has been double filtered.
I challenge anyone to tell the difference between the two beers.
For example, there are no artificial colorings in any beer made by Carlton and United Breweries or the Fosters Brewing Group - they use caramel to adjust the color to the correct specification. Yes, they do use artificial hop extract, but it is only used to bring the batch of beer up to the correct bitterness specification. They actually use “Pride of Ringwood” hops in most of their brews. There is no “artificially” carbonated water used at all - yeast produces more than enough CO2.
Interesting.
May 28th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
LOL. I thought that was common knowledge.
June 18th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Crown, Fosters and VB are all the same beer as so far as brewing is concerned, its just that they play around with the filters a bit to give them slightly different tastes. VB as you would expect gets the shittest filter treatment, basically they are changed when the must be changed. Fosters is marginally better, but is basically export VB. Crownies get the best filter action, but other than that, is basically the same beer.