But a heavy beer tax is leaving a bitter taste in the mouth - and it's not the good kind.
It went up again earlier this month courtesy of an automatic increase that slugs beer drinkers every August and February.
The increase saw an extra 21 cents tacked on per litre on draught and 30 cents a litre for stubbies, cans and longnecks.
Tax is already the biggest cost in the price of an Australian-made beer, accounting for almost half (42 per cent) of the price of a typical carton of full-strength beer.
And Australians are paying the fourth highest rate in the world, along with Norway, Japan and Finland.
Greg Ryan from the Kyabram Club said the tax hike is too harsh.
"We try as much as we can to minimise passing on the costs to our consumers," he said.
"But when we purchase a keg, there is more than $100 in tax that we have to pay, and that is going up and up.
"Unfortunately it's the poor old rank and file members of the community who end up paying that bit extra just to have a drink."
The Kyabram Club review their prices annually and estimated that last year, after the two scheduled tax increases, their beer products increased in cost by between 5 and 10 per cent.
"We are a soft venue and we have families that come in and just want to enjoy a nice night out," Mr Ryan said.
"We want people to be able to come and enjoy our club. We are a community town and a community business, and the way the beer tax is working at the moment is just not fair."
Last year Aussie’s coughed up more than $3.6 billion in beer taxes.