39. James Boag’s St George Premium Beer

Smoothness 4
Cost 3
Piss-Factor 4
Aftertaste 1
Coolness 3 (5 if you are from England as there is a picture of St George on the front!)

After the last few weeks of fun, flats and furniture, I was my last night as a free man. Tomorrow would be my first day of work at Hornsby hospital. I had no idea what to expect and I wasn’t sure how I’d fit into the Australian system but I was still excited about the prospects of meeting some new people and getting back to work.

As we were running out of funds we were finding it harder to occupy our time. We’d had to stop living the tourist lifestyle as it was proving too expensive and things like the Harbour Bridge walk were just going to have to wait until we had some income to pay for outings like that. This gave me two more reasons to look forward to working – 1. It would occupy a significant amount of my time and 2. it was free!

With the cost of things looming over our every action, we were conscious of every unnecessary penny we were spending. However the temperature had gone from a pleasant 24C the day before to a searing 37C which hampered all aspects of the day’s activity. We decided to spend the evening in the pool cooling down but as we approached the door we noticed a sign stuck to it saying the pool was out of order till further notice.

At that moment we decided that cold beers were in fact a necessity and no longer a luxury so we went straight round to the off-licence and blow $12 on a 4-pack of Boag’s. It was worth it!

Boag’s turned out to be possibly one of the tastiest beers that we’ve ever drank. It’s full of lemon flavour and has very little in the way of aftertaste. It’s now on our list of “must haves” for any future scorching days.