James Squire 150 Lashes Pale Ale is the pale ale that brought Australian craft beer to mainstream pub taps — a 4.2% ABV session pale ale with genuine Cascade hop character that convinced a generation of lager drinkers to try …
John Brewster
John Brewster
John Brewster is the homebrewer and writer behind BrewMyBeer — over a decade of all-grain brewing, 80+ BIAB batches, and 1,000+ guides on fermentation science, water chemistry, hops, yeast, and homebrewing equipment. Every guide is written from genuine hands-on experience.
White Rabbit Dark Ale from Healesville, Victoria is one of Australia’s most celebrated dark ales — a 4.
Little Creatures Pale Ale from Fremantle, Western Australia is the beer that launched the modern Australian craft beer movement — a bold, hop-forward American-style pale ale that arrived in 2000 when most Australians were drinking macro lager.
Coopers Sparkling Ale is one of the world’s great ale originals — an unfiltered, bottle-conditioned, naturally cloudy Australian ale at 5.8% ABV that has been brewed by the family-owned Coopers Brewery in Adelaide since 1862.
Foster’s Lager is Australia’s most internationally recognized beer brand, though Australians themselves rarely drink it — it’s positioned primarily for export markets, particularly the UK.
Sol Cerveza is one of Mexico’s oldest commercial lagers — brewed in Orizaba since 1899 — and occupies the lightest, most neutral position in the Mexican lager spectrum.
Pacifico Clara is the Mexican lager from Mazatlán, Sinaloa — a Pacific coast beer with a slightly softer, more rounded character than Corona or Sol, and a loyal following among surfers and coastal drinkers who find it marginally more substantial …
Dos Equis Amber (Dos Equis XX Ámbar) is the more interesting of the two Dos Equis expressions — a Vienna-style lager with genuine malt character that predates the mass-market Mexican lager category.
Estrella Damm is Barcelona’s iconic lager — brewed by Damm since 1876 and one of the few major European lagers that genuinely uses rice as its adjunct rather than corn or no adjunct, giving it a specifically light, crisp character …
Birra Moretti is Italy’s second major lager export after Peroni and has a distinctly different character — slightly more malt-present, slightly deeper color, and a richer malt sweetness that makes it more food-forward than the crisper Peroni Nastro A