{"id":216,"date":"2005-02-04T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=216"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T11:42:09","slug":"beer-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/beer-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Survey.."},"content":{"rendered":"
Lunch (tuna sushi rolls and iced coffee for the curious) in hand, I’m walking back to the orifice, when a women stops me and asks if I want to do a beer survey. <\/p>\n
“Sure” I say, thankful that it’s not another dodgy charity asking me for money to clothe abandoned Albanian Shrimp Monkies or repaint the BMW’s of toppled dictators around the world.<\/p>\n
The survey focused on Carlton United Breweries, Tooheys and Hahn products with a couple of imports thrown in to put you off the scent.<\/p>\n
I used this 5-10 minutes of ours lives to dump on CUB beers while raving about Mountain Goat and Cooper’s products. I hope that’s acceptable to you all.<\/p>\n
The only downside? When I asked if she had samples.. the answer was a regretful “No”. I cried, she cried, it was tragic. <\/p>\n
The only television beer ad I could remember? The TONGUE ad<\/a> of course! I even managed to name the beer it was supposed to promote! I think the only reason I could recall it though was because I had read an article discussing the merits of grossing out a whole nation to promote a beer.. <\/p>\n I’m sure the survey was an international conspiratorial plot to get me to attend the Goat open night tonight.. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lunch (tuna sushi rolls and iced coffee for the curious) in hand, I’m walking back to the orifice, when a women stops me and asks if I want to do a beer survey. “Sure” I say, thankful that it’s not … Continue reading
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