Aussies use a generic term for beer - piss. I know in the UK we say 'I was pissed last night', etc etc, but we don't usually use the word 'piss' as an adjective to describe beer.

It's used this way in Australia because most Aussie beer has even less taste that TsingTao, Snow or Harbin beer in China. It quite literally is....like piss!

You've been talking about real ale. That's something I miss a great deal. I remember a few years ago, I attended a beer festival in the UK. I remember asking for a pint of some kind of black beer, but I was told I could only buy a half-pint. Good job really because this stuff was so thick and creamy you almost had to chew it. A far cry from the pissy lager's we have to put up with today.....