An interesting follow-on from one of my earlier posts on Lion Nathan. Reader "Angry" makes a very valid comment about Lion Nathan's efforts brewing Beck's under licence.
This aligns nicely with Gage and Robert's first beer tasting in their excellent The Beer Frontier series. Episode One sees the guys compare imported and local versions of Stella Artois. The local version is brewed by Fosters. The link to their clip is here: The Beer Frontier Episode 1 - Part 1 of 2.
I think we should pursue this topic for a while. There does seem to be a vein of concern in the discerning beer public. Maybe it's time to catalogue all brewed-under-licence beers, and conduct our own research...
And this isn't specifically a shot at Lion Nathan..... just a happy coincidence !
Angry kindly provided a link to the following, which I have managed to somehow embed in this post (much to my surprise):