tauajalah.com - Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke, who once held the record as the world’s fastest beer drinker, has unveiled a new lager named after himself – and spent little time sampling his first drop.
The 87-year-old, who set a world record for drinking a yard of beer while studying at Oxford in 1955, agreed to give his name to Hawke’s Lager on condition that some of the profits go to a scheme to assist farmers.
Pouring a beer from a tap at a pub in Sydney, Mr Hawke held up his glass and said: “How’s that for a pour? [I could] get a bloody job.”
After taking a sip, he nodded his head and said: “A lovely beer.”
Mr Hawke, who was prime minister from 1983 to 1991, should know.
Despite being widely-recognised as one of Australia’s greatest and most popular prime ministers – he floated the currency, reduced tariffs and launched the Medicare national health scheme - he is often remembered for his enduring passion for beer.
His record at Oxford involved drinking two-and-a-half pints of beer in 11 seconds.
In recent years, his beer drinking has become a regular feature at cricket matches. At a match in 2012, he accepted a beer from an apparent stranger and proceeded to drink it in a single gulp.
In January, he again drank a beer at the Sydney Cricket Ground as the delighted crowds watched on.
Mr Hawke’s face will appear on cans and taps of the new lager.
He said the founders of Hawke’s Lager, Nathan Lennon and David Gibson, were “thinking about beer and who they would like to have a beer with and decided they would like to have a beer with me”.
“I said I would do it on condition that I wasn’t making a profit out of it,” he said.
The beer will be available in Australia later this month. (telegraph.co.uk)
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