Mike, funny you should mention that........!
....Quit drinking that Auzzie piss you Kiwis call beer.....
Many, many years ago (way back when the first Ozzie cattle drovers were common-place in that fly-blown country of Oz), there was a team of cattle drovers working a herd of cattle from the inland towards the nearest town (500 miles away!)
The temperature was about 120 dgrs C. in the shade, and these guys were horrifyingly thirsty. One of these drovers had hidden away in his backpack one bottle of beeeoootiful NZ beer! :worship: (his Kiwi cousin had sent it to him for a Xmas present).
One night, when these dog-tired drovers had bedded down in the bush for the night, this guy sneaked his bottle of beer out of his pack and quietly sipped it all away during the night. Like all high-quality beers, it needed "getting rid of" during the night, so this guy "cleared his bladder" very early the next morning into the now-empty beer bottle.
When the team of drovers all woke up, and they were packing their bedding onto their horses, this guy's (now-full again) beer bottle accidentally fell onto the ground! There was an uproar from the other drovers, accusing this unfortunate guy of hiding his beer from his mates! They beat the sh*te out of this poor fella, and then each of them took turns at having a long swig from the bottle!
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One of the team looked at the label on the bottle and shouted " Look 'ere, mateeeys! Thees ees bluddy Kiwi beer!! Bluddy hell!"
They all agreed that was probably the BEST "beer" they had ever tasted!!
When they eventually got into the nearest town (2 weeks later) and hit the local pub, the original owner of the bottle of Kiwi beer "confessed" to his mates what had happened!
So, to end this TRUE tale, this is how the term "Aussie piss" came to be known - everyone who drinks Aussie beer swears to God that it
tastes like it has been drunk once before!
Ask bmcK if this ain't the truth!! :music:
cheers, Ian - NZ