Victoria Bitter: The Story of the Beer That Built Australia

[@evilstorm5954]

A big cold thirst needs a big cold beer, I’m drinking one now, VB👍

[@iankearns774]

My father in law used to call them little green buggers, when it was your shout and asked him what do you want he would just say "get me one of those little green buggers".

[@isaacpolitis8992]

im an alcoholic

[@uToobeD]

I'm not, but I appreciate your candidness haha

[@Amberlynn_Reid]

I've wasted my life Thanks to alcohol

[@uToobeD]

@@Amberlynn_Reid I'm sure there are other factors than just what you put in your mouth :P

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Can't pronounce Corio 😅

[@maddyg3208]

Had to stop it at that point

[@JohnChrostowski-n7q]

I will never get sick of drinking VB

[@MrDredd1966]

Definitely one of the best beers in Australia!!🍺😋 Back the late 1980s my boss at the time used to buy a couple of cartons of VB long necks for the workers every Friday after work!!

[@Hans-r9i]

I started drinking vb when it became available in nsw when I was 23 years old. its the only beer that satisfies my thirst after a hard day's work. I am now 64 years old and its the beer I still drink. the only other tragedy other than that truck load of vb rolling over that I've experienced is when I've gone to a bottle shop and they have run out of it. I usually buy a three pack of long necks or tallies as I call them after I knock off work and sometimes that has happened.😢

[@Reds_engineering]

It’s not often you find a bottle shop that’s outta vb ay, first time I went to South Australia I was like shit they prob don’t even sell vb here but they certainly do. Cheers to some long necks mate and thanks for watching 🍻👍

[@yung_bellybutton]

haha

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

wait so it only arrived in nsw 41 years ago?

[@JimmyShields-z2h]

​@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367i move from Victoria to NSW Dubbo I am not kidding in 2005 there was no VB nor Carlton draught on tap let lone in stock at the bar. I was surprised, even when i met my father inlaw he drank XXXX because was too full strength, VB would send him crazy. Tooheys beer is like bingo you get one good beer n rest are hits n misses. Now everyone here drinks Great Northern which are own by CUB, i prefer Super crisp or gingerbeer, original lager is not refined.

[@Melbournelost66]

It's as Australian as it comes. That theme, you grew up with. You'd here it listening to the summary of the game driving home from the footy with Dad in Melbourne. I bet thousands can tell the same story growing up in the 70s.

[@0590aaron]

The Yaaaaaara Valley.....said no victorian ever

[@Fruitcupper]

Young mate in a small country town rolled his parents farm ute off the local bridge. He crawled out, called the cops, and took his slab of VB with him for a 2km walk home. Ambos found him half way home. They couldn't accurately bretho him so he got off for 3 weeks. Then he lost his licence.

[@tjwest2605]

Listening with headphones and at 7:05 I thought I was tripping and had to pause and make sure but I can hear an ad or something playing in the background and i thought it was coming from another room 😂

[@Reds_engineering]

Yeah I’m sorry about that, I’m not sure what is it, I think it’s prob a KZbin add playing after it played one of the vb ads, there was a few layers of audio so I missed that bit.. I’d also had a few beers during the editing

[@tjwest2605]

@Reds_engineering no need to apologise mate. Was only saying in case you weren't aware. Great video by the way! Perhaps you could do a vid on Travla beer? Being a country beer made in Victoria and Travis Fimmel is part owner

[@samshepherd26]

I had a pint of VB today down at the local RSL 🍻

[@michaelrosenow4393]

Veggies and Beef down at the Rissole. Aussie Pass Time. "LONG LIVE THE DIGGERS" ✌️🍺✌️

[@GiuseppeBasile]

Watching this while enjoying a can of VB. Nice story @Reds Engineering

[@Reds_engineering]

@@GiuseppeBasile thanks, always goes down good watching the cricket to.

[@GiuseppeBasile]

@@Reds_engineeringagreed Boonie Boonie!

[@evilstorm5954]

VB won the contract when I turned 18 (16 really😉) and it’s held the contract for the last 35 years. I’m having one now, to quench my hard earned thirst.👍

[@josefbuckland]

That’s a Beauty! I’m about to add some retro VB to the cricket scene on my model railway I’m not really a drinker but I can admit that apart from loving the shade of green it was a stinking hot day after some hard yakka and on a job and it was a life changing experience when that icy cold nectar ran down my gullet. I would not have consumed more than 30 in my entire life but it’s a full bodied meaty drink that certainly lives up to everything the marketing team have generated and the cologne is a fine example of capturing the essence of what is a lovely little luxury to many.

[@Reds_engineering]

@@josefbuckland adding vb to a cricket scene on your model railway, now that’s just plain cool 👍🍻. Love the way you describe the VB running down your Gullett… And yeah VB has candles out now, just picked one up yesterday, once the wax is gone they will make a good lil brown VB glass

[@josefbuckland]

@ it’s video number 78 in my series just fast forward to the end where Ritchie Benaud Gives us the run down of the scene. The billboard being made is the scene from your video in the 80s add where the bloke is pulling the old Land Cruiser out of the bog. Just finished modeling my batter up chippy box scene complete with the bubble o bill sign out front and trevs dim sim on a stick from the Aussie movie takeaway. VB it’s as Aussie as rolling home with a Chiko.

[@ufo-bro532]

VB is one of the many great Australian made beers

[@Wide-eyed-stare]

It was at about 40secs in that I knew the narrator was not from Victoria. The Corio “pronunciation” made that very clear.

[@fergspan5727]

VB first beer i drank when I first moved to australia from Ireland . Went to an Irish pub in Sydney with mates and the last thing I wanted fresh of the plane was a feckin Guinness or Kilkenny.moved to the bush and still drink it , get that up ya .

[@ShaneZurvas]

I don't get sick of drinking vb

[@geneva760]

HA - just get sick from it

[@Ray-x5d]

XXXX🍺🍺🍺🍺😄👍

[@RATTLEY67]

Drinking VB now!!!

[@rsinclair6560]

Note that up until the late 1970's you only got CUB beer in Victoria until the great CUB strike. Then XXXX from Queensland flooded Victoria then all other States since CUB beer ran out. From that time all major State brewery's beer became available in bottle shops.

[@jasonmillier151]

I live here in NZ and tried a vb and Its now one of my favorites unfortunately you can only buy them in 6 packs here in nz

[@lavitabella9069]

BBQ cleaner

[@robertmorris4784]

If you like VB, try a Southwalk Bitter. Very similar style. Southwalk has more flavour and a hint of honey in the finish.

[@bigbelix]

Vb longneck in the fackin morn

[@Hypno3315]

As an Aussie and a bartender we need more content like this. Which brewery next?

[@Reds_engineering]

@@Hypno3315 haha great comment mate. I knew there was a spot for a video like this as there is no videos about the history, the VB SLABS have a great pic and little story on the back but that’s about it… and i don’t know mate I normaly make farming history videos, if I did another beer story it would be melb bitter.

[@jackwalker9492]

I said something to some Aussies about Fosters many years ago and was almost booed out of teh room! Now I know what to ask for. I travel alot and when ask for what I am having and am not familiar, I jusst say "the cheapest draft you have.!"

[@BaileySmith-c6y]

Matter a fact, I got it now 👍

[@STEPHENDAVIES-f5n]

My son drinks VB after a hard day's work

[@Reds_engineering]

I bet he earns a thirst then. It was hard editing this video without a cold vb I tell ya that… Cheers and thanks for watching

[@gashy1000]

That sounds fair enough but I even drink it without a hard days work at times, cheers, Andy in Adelaide. Being from the colony of Victoria, I began my drinking career in the early 80's with VB, Melbourne Bitter and Carlton Draught and of course a few Fosters thrown in for good measure. I have expanded that range these days, however still can not beat the good old Victorian Beers. 💪

[@Amberlynn_Reid]

Hard days work at the glory hole

[@slurrping_noisee]

@@Amberlynn_Reid that was uncalled for lmfao🤣

[@fredbarron8582]

'An army of close to a thousand cats'... Well that explains how they achieve that unique cat piss flavour.

[@dudeybagz]

I was just thinking that

[@jaiden8069]

Best cold beer in a hot day...

[@SS-Teebie]

All the VB stock scattered across the road should have just been sold at NQR…📦

[@flamingstag2381]

hope you can cover the many other brands !!!!!!!

[@wolfy789]

Watching this video feeling like a Tooheys😂

[@СлаваССС-м4с]

Poofta😂

[@geneva760]

CHEERS from AUSTRALIA - HA - where not everyone drinks the ‘poison’ - but still enjoy watching old VB adverts etc

[@Reds_engineering]

@@geneva760 oath mate the vb ads are the best, and with the stats about 1 in 10 people still drink VB, even tho there is hundreds of types of beers available these days

[@soulsphere9242]

I used to live in the brewery complex on Victoria Parade around 2013. It was converted into apartments back in the 2000s.

[@Reds_engineering]

@@soulsphere9242 that’s bloody awesome mate, I did see they have apartment built on top of the vb factory. I was gunna put it in the video but I left it out. But I did see pics from inside the apartments looking out over the vb castle style roof. Great view. Also I see they have a IGA in the vic parade building. Would be cool buying a vb from the original building ay.

[@soulsphere9242]

@@Reds_engineering The site today is only a part of what was the original huge sprawling complex and many of the old building were demolished but they have actually maintained some of the brewing infrastructure and there is a part of the site set aside as a museum of sorts. I have been into many of the apartments over the years either to look at as potential rentals then later to potentially buy, but never ended up doing so after renting that one time. There are several modern buildings as part of the site, some built on top of the historical structures and the tall central building which is called the Victoria building. Each building has a name, and the apartment numbers end with the first letter of the name. There are several businesses at ground level inside, including as you say a licensed IGA. Everything was convenient but also overpriced. There is also a rooftop pool, gym and underground car park.

[@s1ckboirari]

It definitely depends on the era/what you had when you first started etc but to me Melbourne Bitters is like everything I always heard about VB as a kid lmao My first VB I couldn't even finish a tinnie and it gave me an instant headache, months later I sip an MB and it was perfect, nice n cold and I could drink it like water, first beer I thought was genuinely tasty (apart from Guinness which yeah ik a lot of ppl are gonna be like wtf Guiness over VB?!? lmao)

[@mike9347]

I reckon I could have bought two high rises by now at the beachfront on Sufers Paradise with the amount of VB I've drank over the last 40 years 🤣

[@DrDribs]

I didn't know the bit about it being named after the street instead of the state. Not sure about national sale figures these days but around Melbourne suburbs the most popular slabs now are Corona (Mexican urine) and Great Northern (fish piss). We've gone soft.

[@Reds_engineering]

@@DrDribs dead right mate Northern and Dry are the main “soft beers” almost everywhere across Victoria. Iv been a vb drinker for prob 14 years and I was surprised when I learnt it was the street not the state, but being Victorian it doesn’t change being proud of the green gold, cheers 🍻👍

[@SlammySlimSlimson]

Keen to keep watching So are the kids in the next school curriculum The teachers need a new short-film for when they're hungover anyway. What better?

[@SlammySlimSlimson]

I was wrong . at 5;20 mins I feel like I may be watching an "iconic advertising campaign" Fuck this

[@Wheels_Paws]

Maybe its the VB talking but this documentary about Fosters is making me feel funny.

[@gezzamate3916]

Currently wearing vb jocks

[@Reds_engineering]

Iv got the 6 pack that was in the video,but my fav is the black ones that has a stubbie on the front.

[@planetdisco4821]

The VH stubbie was specifically designed for its ballistic properties for the ongoing war between ford and Holden at mount panorama lol…

[@patricknolan1096]

Tubby Taylor's preferred drop...🏆🍻

[@Amberlynn_Reid]

VB ruined my life. I'm addicted and always drunk

[@Reilyreid]

grow up

[@Amberlynn_Reid]

@Reilyreid I'm an alcoholic

[@atariyeet8177]

Victoria Bitter is owned by a Japanese company

[@parkerstroh6586]

Far out i need a beer

[@preston963]

I feel like a Toohey's or 15...but never a VD!

[@jezza2423]

the chatgpt script is crazy

[@OldKenJablome]

Great video! Mispronounced Corio and Yarra though...

[@Reds_engineering]

@@OldKenJablome I did try to fix it but we all know what it was ment to say 👍🍻

[@paullastname474]

@@Reds_engineering Pmsl the comment above pointing out your Mispronunciation has made me have to point out your spelling mistake in your reply...."meant" is how you spell it and now someone will probably point out that I used Hyphens in the wrong context or that's not even what they are called....lol Us commenters mostly suck anyway unlike the mighty VB 🤣🤣🤣

[@phoneticau]

VB Gold mid strength is it still a thing ??

[@Reds_engineering]

@@phoneticau yep, I brought my first ever VB gold like a month ago, can’t really comment on the taste as it turned out to be out of date🥵.

[@iankearns774]

Drank it from 1983 (age 18) until 2011 when I found I was a Coeliac. Haven't had once since and really miss it. How about making a gluten free beer CUB? Have to drink Hahns or O 'Briens, there are a million pooncey craft gluten free beers but they are not the same in my opinion.

[@patricknolan1096]

David Boon's record perhaps only possible because they were VB's.

[@Reds_engineering]

@@patricknolan1096 what drinking 52 vb’s on a flight to England? Haha

[@dougstacks]

The ai was strong with this vid. Love VB but generic ai voiceover spoilt it.

[@MrPhantomPete]

No memtion of the scandal when VB recipe was changed and alcohol content lowered. CUB reversed course after customers voted with their wallets.

[@themechanic2481]

We used to be a proper country

[@traviscampbell8345]

Yet you can't buy it on tap, can't buy it at events and its $30 for a 6 pack...

[@Reds_engineering]

Jezz mate. Wear I live vb is on tap in most pubs. And it’s $18 for a 6 pack at premix king (my local)

[@101bennyc]

Green Demons

[@user-gk1nt6sm2z]

Vb built Australia. Che? 30 years ago western Australia didn't even know this beer existed. And wa is what keeps Australia afloat. Meanwhile Victoria is broke.

[@ithinkurf]

30 minute VB ad, f*ck yeah

[@Reds_engineering]

As a huge VB fan myself, iv spent many of hours just listening to the VB ads while drinking,. This video is a bit of a tribute video with some facts most drinkers don’t know. Cheers for watching mate 🍻

[@joyempire462]

smh doing 4X dirty with this one

[@Reds_engineering]

XXXX?, what don’t you have tastebuds mate! Jokes

[@piglos]

As well as not being able to pronounce Corio, I think the narrator needs to get checked for colour blindness. Those road signs that match the VB colours don't look green and yellow to me!

[@holdenbrougham1056]

Just name , not a patch on a dry

[@michaelmaguire8223]

Glad he didn’t say Mooroolbark !!!!!! Bloody AI.

[@kevinmoor6408]

These robot voices are annoying.

[@chefclembrulee7505]

hi im clem and im an alcoholic

[@Reds_engineering]

Hi clem

[@tonycostanzo4276]

i preferred Fosters Larger

[@scoobyblu5815]

I think your title is completely wrong! The beer responsible for killing a lot of Australians prematurely even around here a lot of them don't last till 50 and what are they drink VB I wonder why😅 I wonder if all those preservatives were in the original or they just saved it for the later generations😅

[@Hans-r9i]

@@scoobyblu5815 well I'm 64 years old and drink VB. and I'm still as fit as a mallee bull.

[@scoobyblu5815]

@Hans-r9i ha, the biggest strongest guys go first 😭 64 is a long way from 80🤣 You can always quit it before it quits you 😭

[@Hans-r9i]

@scoobyblu5815 I will drink VB until it quits me.

[@kevinquigley8656]

Absolute piss water, but a cultural icon nonetheless.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

It's pronounced Co-rye-oh. The correct nickname isn't VB, it's Vic, as in 'pot of Vic, thanks.'

[@willstallman2766]

Why was this written by AI

[@DaminnO]

Right? It has to be, it's so bloody repetitive and goes absolutely nowhere. I could definitely go a beer now though, so I guess that's why.

[@jaybee8148]

Welcome to the AI wastel6 . Wasteland algo

[@MrWilberbeast1]

AI was a mistake.

[@addrock7695]

The background music is shite! Sort the levels out

[@Reds_engineering]

I am sorry, as iv said befor for some reason when you play it on dif devices the sound is slightly off.. I’ll work harder on it next time. Also this video being 20 mins my laptop struggles a bit while editing.

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

So "everyone" that works in Australia "drinks beer" for a "hard earned thirst"? What HORSESHIT

[@OldKenJablome]

Calm down, mate. I myself won't touch VB with a 10 foot pole if there's anything else on offer, but the reality of it being the most universally loved knock off beverage in the country cannot be denied.

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

It's a surefire sign of an alcoholic when you're entire working day revolves around the "long awaited moment" when you "tackle" your "hard earned thirst". No wonder we don't manufacture anything anymore. Too many workers "looking forward" to "solving" their "hard earned thirst problems" rather than concentrating on the job

[@OldKenJablome]

Jesus mate, you must be fun at parties...

[@MrNodrog64]

That comment is a bit rich coming from a boy that drinks Stella Artois 😅😂

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

@OldKenJablome well, if your "party" consists of a whole bunch of drunks raving on about nothing I'll just PASS on that one. Too much of Australian "socializing" revolves around alcohol consumption. We are worse than Russian people

[@uToobeD]

This is probably the worst place to ask this, but... who actually still drinks this crap? :P

[@Gaspo123]

Loved the adds back in the day but Vommit Bombs are nasty. As a Victorian I reject VB and the extra spicy hangovers only a VB can give a man.

[@ACDZ123]

Oooh worse than an Emu Export hangover? I challenge you on that one 😅

[@joelbattiston1139]

good, its not for softies like yourself

[@-Awareness]

Lol Backwash….

[@danrandlehandle]

AI script? Many repeated points lmao

[@kcosminhz7988]

pronounced core eye oh

[@michaelhorne8366]

I don't understand how anyone can drink this filth. I work in a fabrication shop with 40 blokes, an adjacent factory had a fire in an external machine room that we could see from one of our roller doors. About 8 of us rolled in with all the fire extinguishers we could carry and got the fire out just as they were realising what was going on. A few days later their manager rolled up with about 6 slabs of beer, two of which were Vomit Bottled. 6 months later, those two cases went in the skip. Not a single person in the shed wanted to touch them. Bold flavour indeed.

[@zaraNFC]

It's undrinkable.

[@goforpilgs]

Yeah right…

[@joelbattiston1139]

stick to great northern girly

[@panicfarm9874]

You're kidding aren't you?

[@goforpilgs]

@@panicfarm9874 vb is the very best

[@MrDredd1966]

Nope a beer like west end draught is definitely undrinkable!!

[@rsinclair6560]

It use to be quite bitter but it is a little bland now ofcourse it is mass produced and over refined. Wait no no, 'AN ARMY OF CATS.....yes they trained them to squat on top of the bottles. That's being a little harsh, visiting the Carlton, Abottsford, and Richmond brewery's their technicians, chemists and brewer's took great pride in their quality product. The actual quality control and consistency is interesting, particularly Fosters and Crown and Melbourne and Victoria Bitter, oh and the yeast by-product....Vegemite. Anyway...matter of fact......

[@ACDZ123]

Built Western Australia?? Yer i dont think so lol 😆🇦🇺

[@parkerstroh6586]

Fresh from victoria's finest swamps

[@eelofgold]

Terrible repetitive script written and narrated by AI. I feel cheated for clicking on this waste of data. If there is a human involved in the production of this video you should be ashamed of yourself.

[@Reds_engineering]

@@eelofgold calm ya farm mate, I spent a few days puttin all this together, yes I use an ai voice but I’m still a real vb drinking Aussie. I’d rather hear ai over some Indian bloke, at least the ai voice is Australian.. sorry for wasting your data but I’m sure there was still a few facts in the video that you didn’t know.

[@eelofgold]

@ mate, buy a cheap microphone and use your own voice and dump chat gpt for your own words. It’ll be better trust me

[@Reds_engineering]

@@eelofgold that is the plan soon enough, and if I’m gunna go all out and buy a mic it won’t be a cheap one.

[@AKK5I]

Honestly it wasn't that bad. The video content was OK and honestly was paying more attention to the filler VB commercials in the background

[@basaltplainscreationsaustr1194]

It's arguably one of the worst Australian beers.

[@joelbattiston1139]

argue all you want but the fact is that its the best beer in the world, stick to your watered down piss sweetheart

[@stuartpinder3807]

Y are you talking about great northern

[@СлаваССС-м4с]

Cats piss😂

[@barrybbq1]

VB the beer that built Australia? I think the Tooth and Tooheys families would have something to say about that :)