Why Aussies love the pub 🍻 | Back Roads | ABC Australia

[@Steven_Rowe]

I'm a pom but lived here 52 years and I'm now 71. The country pub is iconic and may it thrive. The only pet peeve of mine is schooners and not pints. I will always try a local beer if I can.

[@danmoriarty9623]

I still like to go to the pub. I stand outside and look through the window at the beers on the bar. I have such great memories of when I could afford to drink one.

[@jamescorry63]

I spent nearly 3 years working outback doing power line maintenance and such and nearly all our accommodation was in outback pubs,,,, man we had some awesome times,,,we were an 7 man outfit with my wife as the cook when we stayed in camps ,,, we have had nights where the publican has shouted us to drink in their pub ,,, we have been asked by a couple of publicans / owners who offered us free accommodation to stay at their establishments,,,,the reason ,, us Maori could make the pub rock , we had 2 guitar with us everytime we walked into a pub , we had pubs sell out of beer while we were partying in the bar ,, and not once in the 3 years we were on the road did we have trouble with the "locals"

[@justajellydonut2]

I love Australia! Such a beautiful country that we have! Cheers to the ABC and this reporter :) 🇦🇺

[@SailorGerry]

In 1980, my brother, a close mutual friend and myself, drank our way around Australia. Initially we 'acclimatized' ourselves with the drinking culture of Oz with a few days in Sydney, then taking the Indian-Pacific across to Perth. From Perth we went 'round the top', back to the east coast, down to Canberra and then to Sydney. It was an easy 'apprenticeship', and by the time we arrived on the east coast, and after many daily (mostly in the evening; sometimes starting in early afternoon) 'pounding back' of good cold draught, we were more than ready to stand head-to-head and hold our own with our cousin Aussies. The western desert is mesmerizing and magical - we had the time of our lives. 'Dinkum Mate' & Cheers! from Montreal, Canada...

[@markuswilmes3694]

I love pubs

[@RickJamesEstate]

love you xx

[@RickSuaz]

Nothing like a Cold one during a hot one.

[@stuartkcalvin]

Thanks ABC. One of my favourite pubs is at Quamby.

[@pengobatanradentangankarom4165]

Amazing Australia ❤️ Good ❤️👍

[@geoffreyfox60]

Merry Christmas and Happy new years

[@Luke-xx1ri]

Very rarely do I go to the pub nowadays as the taxes have ruined it for me thanks government

[@rmw250]

Cheers big ears 🍺

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

I loved going to the pub in the UK but can't anymore due to health issues now.I would love to go to the pub in Australia to see what its like.In the UK a pint costs around £4 now,how much is a beer in Australia now? Just curious?Also what do your beers come in regarding sizes,like pints ect? Thanking You Brian

[@tallaganda83]

More than that, a pint costs upwards of $10 or more.

[@FlowerPotManx]

@@tallaganda83 $33 for 4 corona the other day, I had a 5 pints of swan and a middy of x and that cost me $70, I’m visiting the uk for Christmas and I can’t wait for the cheap drinks In weather spoon

[@VitalyDryburgh]

@@FlowerPotManx have a holiday to japan or china, a pint can be had as low as $1 aud and its good local stuff too

[@markuswilmes3694]

Lynches hotel Narooma

[@joelmonkley6177]

It's not all Australian it was the same here in New Zealand

[@westerntui]

Was being the word now NZ is f#cked

[@aussiegor666]

Why Aussies love the pub...obvious answer there. A better question is why are our governments hellbent on killing the pub with an automatic tax increase on beer twice a year.

[@FredRose2001]

I disagree, pub’s in Australian are vacuum’s of social interaction, all so money vacuums, between poker machines, TAB, Keno and on top of that, on every wall there is a tv showing all sort’s of BORING ball sports that encourage patron’s to gamble via online corrupt app’s via there phone’s😐

[@again5162]

Yeah in my small town the pub owner sold up and we lost that important link to our local pub, I feel bad for the new owners it takes a long time to turn a profit on an outback pub. It's proper outback no keno no gambling at all just 1 screen with the news

[@rickyramone1350]

Never ever been to a good pub in Australia , focused on pokies , chicken snitzy , keno and fighting

[@oscarosullivan4513]

And not the best beer

[@armondeushon7892]

Pokies, horse racing, greyhound racing, fighting, football, brawls, pokies, misogynists, bikers, drugs, money laundering, woollies and Coles owning a majority of the Sydney ones (good money in the one armed bandit ) sure once part of the outback culture but time to keep driving on.

[@AusHowie]

“Dominated by male drinkers!” Oh my how absurd 🙄

[@waynekeith3050]

Not any more can't afford it

[@lyndenmanning]

What mythology

[@rickardo4167]

10$ a pot, rather stay home

[@again5162]

In desert country working in the heat I would pay $50

[@davidboyle1193]

Aussies don't love the pub ,I live in perth and it's only the British keeping them open

[@again5162]

Haha go to London it's the biggest population of Ozzie's outside our borders they are keeping pubs open in UK

[@jamesreynold6711]

It is exceedingly expensive in Perth I’ll never forget paying $14 for a pint of Hahn Super Dry

[@colinl9018]

@@jamesreynold6711 Bloody right mate, it's the friggin poms pushing the prices up, gotta get out of the metro areas and go to the real 'country' pubs.

[@markuswilmes3694]

Exactly city pubs aren’t pubs anymore