My sister it hosting a couple of previously unmet relatives from the UK.
One of these cousins’ favourite beer is Fosters. If that is not weird enough, she drinks all beer with ice and water. Is that really a thing in the UK?
Er no not normal and fosters is cat pee anyway. 
It’s not actually a thing in the Uk, but I suggest that maybe in an attempt to blend in with her hosts she’s researched Oz and has consequently bought a copy of “The Ladybird book of weird Aussie customs” and has completely misunderstood it.
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Why do you think we export it, rather than drink it? 
We sent it to you lot, as a joke but you took it seriously.
She expected to find Fosters on tap, everywhere (understandably) but very few pubs serve it, such is its unpopularity.
Nah, she does it home, picked up the liking from staying somewhere in the Mediterranean.
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Never heard that one before mate, but it takes all sorts.
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Definitely strange behavior, I might have to disinherit her. 
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Nope never heard of drinking it with ice and water…
Fosters is quite a big seller but that’s probably down to it being just cheap swill. Its alright necking a couple of cold ones after work but certainly not a favourite contender.
Out in interest SDU, what is the most popular beer down there? Just like say everyday lager.
I have been around a few Med countries, and have even been known to visit a bar or two whilst there! But don’t recall any beer served with ice and water.
Lots of odd (to my eyes) drinks, but not that one.
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Fourex gold, a mid-strength lager.
Why is it called XXXX? Because Queenslanders cant spell beer.
dang i was just typing a comment along that joke but you beat me to itb
Putting any kind of water in beer, let alone ice, FFS, seems anathema to the whole point of beer. Sigh! But then, I’m a decided warm real ale drinker, which itself may seem strange in Oz. Mind you, look on the bright side: she’ll be cheap to run!
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Not only will she be disinherited, she’ll find herself walking, if she keeps calling my Land Rover a Jeep!
Well, the Landrover was originally based on the concept of the Jeep so you could just tell her it is a sophisticated development of the Jeep and deserves its British title. By all means spike her iced beer with vodka but just don’t tell her what unreliable damned things they were, even if they could go where the others couldn’t! That’s why Africa replaced its Landys with Landcruisers - but don’t tell her that either
Oh my word!
Castlemaine XXXX then as was.
I can see the pub from here.
Australians wouldn’t give a castlemaine XXXX for anything else.
1988 that advert Sheesh. Actually one of the funniest adverts was the XXXX adverts. That’s when adverts actually made you physically laugh and a really didn’t want to fast forward them. Mind having said that you couldn’t avoid them unless it was taped on VCR of course.
Yep. British Leyland took over Landrover and poisoned them with shoddy production. Never mind, that’s the mosaic of trade for you.
The ice is to give it flavour 
English Ale or proper German Lager.That’s all for me.
Having said that it might sometimes be the choice of local brew or nothing like Kronenburg or St Omer in France or Moretti in Italy .
Oz is more well known for Castlemaine than Fosters ?.
Might as well put water in it than bleedin ice.