well we nearly did it go the whole trip with out crap american beer, there are some delicious beers over here but they are not the mainstream miller, bud or coors. being in the microbrew districts of washington and oregon gereat beer was easy to find. i still remember this black one which was as black as a black dogs,..well you know where im heading, it contained coffee and some fancy real dark chocolate..delicious.. other beers we have enjoyed are fat tyre, an ipa vstyle beer and blue moon which i his magical pale ale which includes coriandar and orange peel..it a bit like hoegarten but better, its served with a slice of lemon. prices are pretty good they have usually been cheaper than aus, and they come in big pots or scooners for under the price of our pot. they dont do slabs at take awat there are dozens but 6 pac is the go..even a shitty 7/11 will have 30 varieties. vegas..well you can pay $8 a beer plus tpi and tax in a fancy bar..or go to one of the not so fancy and pay $1 ..good to wash your 18 inch $1.29 hot dog down with. vegas you can even drink on the streets and they do..8 am you will se some girls sucking on a metre high eifell tower shaped margereitta or a guy drinking beer from a gallon bucket which cost him about 5 bucks…ypu just wonder how they will be looking at midnight. the 21 drinking age is stricktly enforced everywhere,, we have even had to sho age id on a few occasions…make us feel real good.

well back to our first bud…there free so they dont count..so making the best of hem. in th airport lounge..fantastic free beer (and we go ther 4 hours early) free food and nibbles and best of all a shower where we can freshen up berore we jump on the big double decker….hope it works better than the qantas one which we just watched make an emergency landing in singapore a few minutes ago….