Australian Beer Culture

First let me say that I know next to nothing about the beer tradtions in Australia. I've never been there; the closest I've ever come is a few pints of Fosters, which I've been assured is most definitely NOT Australian for beer as the ad campaign would have us believe.

Anyway, just for fun, here are some Australian beer drinking terms that I lifted from Koala Net:

• Amber fluid : beer
• Bogan : person who takes little pride in his appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer
• Bottle-o : liquor shop (originally a man with hessian bags going around picking up beer bottles in the 50's and 60's)
• Butcher : small glass of beer in South Australia - From the theory that a butcher could take a quick break from his job, have a drink and be back at work
• Coldie : a beer
• Grog : liquor, beer ("bring your own grog, you bludger")
• Handle : beer glass with a handle
• Longneck : 750ml bottle of beer in South Australia
• Middy : 285 ml beer glass in New South Wales
• Pint : large glass of beer (esp. in South Australia)
• Piss : beer. Hence "hit the piss", "sink some piss"
• Pot : 285 ml beer glass in Queensland and Victoria
• Schooner : large beer glass in Queensland; medium beer glass in South Australia
• Skull/Skol (a beer) : to drink a beer in a single draught without taking a breath
• Slab : a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer
• Stubby : a 375ml. beer bottle
• Tallie : 750ml bottle of beer
• Throw-down : small bottle of beer which you can throw down quickly
• Tinny : can of beer
• XXXX : pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland