B.O.C.

Well after a long an arduous process of elimination, I've finally found my beer of choice, (or BOC as me and Jarrad refer to it) here in New Zealand.

Here's a run down of all the beers me and Jarrad can remember buying and a few notes on the ones I can remember anything about.

DB Draft

Victoria Bitter (Very popular here.)

Double Brown (Seems to be the BOC of most New Zealanders, but it didn't really do it for me.)

Export Gold (My first BOC based on the fact that it was not too bad, and it was usually on sale really cheap. But sometimes you would have to pay full price, and that sucked.)

Ranfurly (Absoloutely disgusting. We only bought it because of the name basically. It cracked us up. And it had a higher alcohol percentage, most beers here are only 4%, and it came in tall cans.)

Lion's Brown

NZ Lager (Really really bad.)

Speight's (Or as we called it, "Steve Gurneys". This was our second BOC for awhile. There was a really good deal on them and we bought like eight 12 packs of it.)

Flame (Also very popular here, but I don't know why. It's gross. Very reminiscent of Olde English 800. It mus be charcoal filtered. Well OE was the first beer that every made me horrendously sick, so I can't get down with anything that tastes like it.)

Skol. (Easily the worst I've had here and maybe the worst beer I've ever had in my life, next to Steel Reserve. It's 9% alcohol and it comes in a tall can. I ran into the beer store with 1 minute left before close one night so me and Jarrad could have a beer to drink on our bike ride to the bar. What a mistake. The bottom 1/3 of it almost made me puke. And not in the sense that I mean it was really gross. I mean I literally almost puked. Heaved and held it down and everything. I guess buying a beer that's named after chewing tobacco is probably a bad idea?)

Brenner. (Jarrad's BOC. We've come to call it "Beanzer" after the name's similarity to Brennan aka BEANZZ's name.)

And last but certainly not least is my beer of choice, Viking.

I mean seriously, look at that packaging. Look at the slogan! "Conquer The Taste". Amazing! The beer is actually pretty good tasting, and it sells for $11 for a 12 pack, which converts to about $8.83 Canadian. That's 74 cents a can! For a decent tasting beer! You can even get them in tall cans, which is more expensive, but worth the price when you figure out how much extra beer you're getting. Strangely enough, Beanzers are $1 less per 12 pack, which is strange because they are obviously made by the same company. There actually is not much difference in the taste, but I mean come on, I'm willing to pay 7 cents more per can to conquer the taste. Who wouldn't?!