Melbourne Bitter Production Pause.

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

Hello all I stopped into 3 of my locals today for a pot of good old MB. The first one said nothing and poured me the goodness. The second said sorry we have none until next February as has been a production pause. 

So I walked down to another pub and got one but when asked he said yes he received an email that there would be no more until next year

With no other information I'm wondering if it is just a simple supply chain issue. My other thought is they may bring it back reduced abv or recepie change. Only time will tell I suppose but now wish I got more when Dan's had it cheap.

[Malter White]

It'll be interesting to see the outcome of this but the cynic in me says it's gone for good. Making way for production and logistic efficiencies. 

I'd imagine MB sales are quite low outside of Victoria. There's no marketing support for the brand like there is for Carlton & VB.

 

 

[Classic Brewing Co]

2 hours ago, Malter White said:

It'll be interesting to see the outcome of this but the cynic in me says it's gone for good. Making way for production and logistic efficiencies. 

I'd imagine MB sales are quite low outside of Victoria. There's no marketing support for the brand like there is for Carlton & VB.

 

 

It won't affect me either way as I didn't think it was anything special or worth worrying about, but then I don't speak Mexican either. 

[Malter White]

7 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

It won't affect me either way as I didn't think it was anything special or worth worrying about, but then I don't speak Mexican either. 

How's your Spanish? That's probably the best way to speak with a Mexican.

[Classic Brewing Co]

1 minute ago, Malter White said:

How's your Spanish? That's probably the best way to speak with a Mexican.

Fair enough, but they all sound the same to me. 

[Tricky Micky]

39 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

It won't affect me either way as I didn't think it was anything special or worth worrying about, but then I don't speak Mexican either. 

tomar otra cerveza 

[Classic Brewing Co]

10 minutes ago, Tricky Micky said:

tomar otra cerveza 

Yeah, OK, I will go the Coopers Pale Ale.  cerveza rubia suave 

[Tricky Micky]

28 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

cerveza rubia suave 

Now ya talkin' my lingo - being Mexican an' all. 

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

2 hours ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

It won't affect me either way as I didn't think it was anything special or worth worrying about, but then I don't speak Mexican either. 

Thats a surprise as you like beers with POR flavour. MB is pretty much the only Aussie megaswill Lager left with that flavour. I know you prefer the ales but still has that flavour at the end.

 

4 hours ago, Malter White said:

It'll be interesting to see the outcome of this but the cynic in me says it's gone for good. Making way for production and logistic efficiencies. 

I'd imagine MB sales are quite low outside of Victoria. There's no marketing support for the brand like there is for Carlton & VB.

 

 

Hopefully not as you think they would tell the customers first meaning the pubs buying kegs.

I guess time will tell. There is actually a big market for it in NSW inland especially the Riverina area. Even as far up as young bottle shops stock it frequently. 

Ask a person from Wagga Wagga how much MB is floating around the place.  

That is if you isolated SA folk with you're own beer glass sizes ever mingle with such people

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by Uhtred Of Beddanburg

[Classic Brewing Co]

9 minutes ago, Uhtred Of Beddanburg said:

Thats a surprise as you like beers with POR flavour. MB is pretty much the only Aussie megaswill Lager left with that flavour. I know you prefer the ales but still has that flavour at the end.

 

Hopefully not as you think they would tell the customers first meaning the pubs buying kegs.

I guess time will tell. There is actually a big market for it in NSW inland especially the Riverina area. Even as far up as young bottle shops stock it frequently. 

Ask a person from Wagga Wagga how much MB is floating around the place.  

That is if you isolated SA folk with you're own beer glass sizes ever mingle with such people

 

I like all different types of hops & use them frequently in all brews.

Melbourne Bitter is just another megaswill beer from Victoria, the only good thing about it being better than VB  

As far as isolated that is only an opinion & if you look around you will see every state has different glass sizes & names so who cares anyway.

[Otto Von Blotto]

I'd care if I was in SA and asked for a pint and got a bloody schooner, what clown came up with that nonsense?

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

31 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

I like all different types of hops & use them frequently in all brews.

Melbourne Bitter is just another megaswill beer from Victoria, the only good thing about it being better than VB  

As far as isolated that is only an opinion & if you look around you will see every state has different glass sizes & names so who cares anyway.

I knew I would get a reaction a out that. See the wink mate? just having a stir I don't care either

Just got an update anyway should be back as normal next year they need to get plenty of stock of more popular beers like dry and northern etc.

[Classic Brewing Co]

29 minutes ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

I'd care if I was in SA and asked for a pint and got a bloody schooner, what clown came up with that nonsense?

Well Otto, I guess it is the same in reverse, many times when I was travelling interstate I would ask for a Schooner & get a Pint, but it doesn't take long to adjust to the different state's sizes.

The only time it was a nuisance was when I had to drive between towns calling on Pubs, 2-3 285ml glasses were OK but when they were 425-570ml that was different. 

This article may explain part of the reason.

https://adelaideaz.com/articles/sizes-and-name-of-beer-glasses-----pints--schooners--butcher-------in--south-australia--drink-alone-#:~:text=The story behind the smaller pint glass in,of World War I or 1930s Depression austerity.

[Malter White]

3 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

I'd care if I was in SA and asked for a pint and got a bloody schooner, what clown came up with that nonsense?

I can't argue with it being nonsense. A pint is equivalent to 568ml and a pint is a pint.
I read the idea of 425ml pints came about during WW1 or WW2 when many staples were rationed. Some clever publican/s came up with "ration pints" (425ml) and they just stuck around since.

[Malter White]

3 hours ago, Uhtred Of Beddanburg said:

That is if you isolated SA folk with you're own beer glass sizes ever mingle with such people

We free settlers in SA care not to mix with those of the penal colonies.

[Classic Brewing Co]

1 hour ago, Malter White said:

I can't argue with it being nonsense. A pint is equivalent to 568ml and a pint is a pint.
I read the idea of 425ml pints came about during WW1 or WW2 when many staples were rationed. Some clever publican/s came up with "ration pints" (425ml) and they just stuck around since.

Sometimes it works out pretty good, at the Jetty Hotel Glenelg they have a weekly special, an Imperial Pint (Mexican Pint) for $8.00, thats not bad as it is the equivalent of 2 x SA Shooners, $4.00 each. 

Considering the average price of a SA 285ml schooner is $7.50-$9.50 it works out fine.

I normally drink Pints 425ml but I am more selective these days as unless there is a special you will pay $9.50-$12.50 on average. 

 

[Kegory]

Do you have your own compass readings in SA, too. If Victorians are Mexican (South of the Border) does that make Western Australians Norsemen?

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

2 hours ago, Kegory said:

Do you have your own compass readings in SA, too. If Victorians are Mexican (South of the Border) does that make Western Australians Norsemen?

Yeah Mexicans are what NSW call Victoria it's a bit silly when SA folk call them Mexican. And the Imperial Pint has been around for how many hundreds of years?

All of a sudden these non convicts come along and start re inventing glass sizes and names that have been in place for yonks. 

I can accept going from NSW and Vic and switching between saying middy or pot. But when we talk about changing names of glasses that already existed for hundreds of years well

It doesn't make being called a Mexican really than insulting does it?

[Otto Von Blotto]

10 hours ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

Well Otto, I guess it is the same in reverse, many times when I was travelling interstate I would ask for a Schooner & get a Pint, but it doesn't take long to adjust to the different state's sizes.

The only time it was a nuisance was when I had to drive between towns calling on Pubs, 2-3 285ml glasses were OK but when they were 425-570ml that was different. 

This article may explain part of the reason.

https://adelaideaz.com/articles/sizes-and-name-of-beer-glasses-----pints--schooners--butcher-------in--south-australia--drink-alone-#:~:text=The story behind the smaller pint glass in,of World War I or 1930s Depression austerity.

Point is there shouldn't be any difference. A pint is 568mL everywhere. Well a proper one is, the yanks can't get it right either with their 473mL "pints". 

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

7 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

Point is there shouldn't be any difference. A pint is 568mL everywhere. Well a proper one is, the yanks can't get it right either with their 473mL "pints". 

yeah exactly then calling a pot a schooner good way to confuse things down grade every glass size there is. 

[Aussiekraut]

20 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

I'd care if I was in SA and asked for a pint and got a bloody schooner, what clown came up with that nonsense?

To me, a schooner is a ship and a pint the only size beer one needs  

[Classic Brewing Co]

12 hours ago, Uhtred Of Beddanburg said:

it's a bit silly when SA folk call them Mexican.

South Australians have been calling Victorians for many years, the whole time I travelled NSW/Riverina especially. I did not once hear anyone say it.

[Aussiekraut]

8 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

Point is there shouldn't be any difference. A pint is 568mL everywhere. Well a proper one is, the yanks can't get it right either with their 473mL "pints". 

The problem is that the pint is half a quart or an eighth of a gallon. Because the US gallon is a helluva lot less than a British gallon, which in itself is odd as usually the Seppos have everything bigger, the pints are by extension smaller as well. I'd like to see glass sizes like 250ml, 500ml and 1l. Everything else just leads to chaos and anarchy 

[Kegory]

12 hours ago, Uhtred Of Beddanburg said:

Yeah Mexicans are what NSW call Victoria it's a bit silly when SA folk call them Mexican. And the Imperial Pint has been around for how many hundreds of years?

All of a sudden these non convicts come along and start re inventing glass sizes and names that have been in place for yonks. 

I can accept going from NSW and Vic and switching between saying middy or pot. But when we talk about changing names of glasses that already existed for hundreds of years well

It doesn't make being called a Mexican really than insulting does it?

AFAIK the only penal colonies were in New South Wales and Tasmania.

[Kegory]

1 minute ago, Aussiekraut said:

The problem is that the pint is half a quart or an eighth of a gallon. Because the US gallon is a helluva lot less than a British gallon, which in itself is odd as usually the Seppos have everything bigger, the pints are by extension smaller as well. I'd like to see glass sizes like 250ml, 500ml and 1l. Everything else just leads to chaos and anarchy 

I'm quite happy to get an Imperial Pint but I'd settle for metric measurements.