Making Buttermilk Into Gold

On a side note, Chris stuck to his Toohey’s New, and he suggested a drink called “XXXX Gold.”  In my world of everything XXX, wouldn’t the beer Four-X Gold be the evolution to all alcohol delicious and HARDCORE (like the second coming of Icehouse)?  Drinks went up every hour at this place, so I kept drinking this beer, but I barely had a buzz.  I had not drank excessively leading up to Australia, so I wanted to deny any acknowledgement that I might’ve built up a tolerance. About the fourth time I went to the bar, however, the bartender volunteered to inform me that Four-X Gold had a very low alcohol content.  …I feel as if I wasted so much money for the sake of the awesome letter of “X.”  Never again will I be spurned by anything more or less that XXX (with the exception of Dos Equis [XX], I suppose).