Two foundation members caught the ferry home today, and noticed the surfeit of riverboats on the harbour. Now a surfeit, when it comes to faux Mississipi riverboats on Sydney Harbour it is a number greater than zero (as per the photo). A BotFer remarked that we had riverboats on the Murray River once, but now they’d be 10 metres above the waterline and probably sit above a servo/roadside diner akin to the Big Merino at Goulbourn. I look at a Riverboat and hope that Paul Robeson will regale me with Moon River, or there’ll be blokes piling over the side as mel Gibson and Jim Garner brawl in a remake of Maverick – but that just won’t happen on Sydney Harbour.
We also gave the Tooheys Dry run – mainly because it was on special at the CQ bottlo. Now I’m a novice at describing beer, so I’ll hand over to the sadly late Michael Jackson (The Beer Hunter – not the King of Pop) to describe Dry Beer.
Originally a milder adaptation of the German Diat Pils, renamed Dry Beer by the Japanese. After its great marketing success in Japan, the term Dry Beer was taken up in North America. There, the style was made milder still. American Dry Beer has a conventional alcohol and calorie content but is notable for having scarcely any taste, and no finish.
back of the ferry 