You're Darn Right This Man Checked a Beer onto His Flight

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You really only need one thing when you travel: beer.

Forget the luggage, smartphone or your favorite book. One Australian man has the right idea because he chose to check a single item on a recent flight, a lonely beer.

The Daily Mail (h/t News.com.au) reports the traveler decided to have a bit of fun and see if his Emu Export can of beer would make it on his Qantas flight from Melbourne to Perth unscathed.

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Spoiler alert: It did.

The man referred to as Dean by News.com.au went through the procedure as you would with any luggage and checked his beer. On the other side of this journey, it popped up and out of baggage claim, riding the conveyor like a champion lager should.

Our new hero tells the Daily Mail this was all for the giggles: “My mate works at the airport and we hatched the plan as a laugh. I half didn't expect it to come out the other end.”

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Australian man claims to have successfully checked his beer on a Qantas flight on Saturday. He says - just for the fun of it.

1:11 PM - 11 Jul 2017

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This Dude Checked In A Single Can Of Beer On A Flight Taking Travelling Light To A Whole New Level http://dlvr.it/PTrkN8 

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Dean had some context clues that staff was privy to the joke the moment he saw the can in Perth: “But when it did it was sent out well in front of all the other luggage, so the baggage handlers obviously appreciated it.”

The Daily Mail spoke with FlightMood’s Peter Ellis who states this isn’t the first for this particular lager: “Export being checked in as baggage is not an uncommon site so I wasn't even surprised. I've seen Export being flown as far as Greece—now that's dedication!”

Ellis doesn’t specify, but I am willing to wager this is the first time a single can of Export was sent as checked luggage.

The other times just had to be six packs or larger. If not, we simply have to get to the bottom of this awesome trend.

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We need more stories like this.

[Dashinka 24,493]

Now there are some beers worth checking, but I know when I travel, I always like to sample the local fare.  In addition, I simply refuse to drink beer out of a can, yes, I am a beer snob, so I would imagine the airlines would not check any beer for me.  I love that the world is moving to more craft style beers, and there are a lot of varieties to sample.

 

Beyond that, this story coming from Downunder reminds me of a humorous story during one of my visits.  My nephew and I went down on on vacation and he a beer snob like myself asked the proprietor of a local pub which beer we should try.  This guy was very nice and we got a lot of history of Aussie beer.  He suggested a nice Coopers pale ale which was very good, but one thing we did find out is that Fosters is considered urine by those in Australia (probably why they send it to the US) so whenever I see one of those commercials that tout "Fosters, Australian for Beer", I always chuckle.

[IAMX 3,055]

I wouldn't be the one to open and drink a beer after it's been through baggage claim, unless a lovely stewardess delivered it to me personally. We'll just keep that between us though.

Edited July 13, 2017 by IAMX

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On 7/12/2017 at 4:12 PM, ccneat said:

 

 

 

 

[GrifEtSabine 4]

12 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Now there are some beers worth checking, but I know when I travel, I always like to sample the local fare.  In addition, I simply refuse to drink beer out of a can, yes, I am a beer snob, so I would imagine the airlines would not check any beer for me.  I love that the world is moving to more craft style beers, and there are a lot of varieties to sample.

 

Beyond that, this story coming from Downunder reminds me of a humorous story during one of my visits.  My nephew and I went down on on vacation and he a beer snob like myself asked the proprietor of a local pub which beer we should try.  This guy was very nice and we got a lot of history of Aussie beer.  He suggested a nice Coopers pale ale which was very good, but one thing we did find out is that Fosters is considered urine by those in Australia (probably why they send it to the US) so whenever I see one of those commercials that tout "Fosters, Australian for Beer", I always chuckle.

Guiness in a Can sounds sacrilegious but with the internal widget it comes the closest to a Dublin Tap 

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57 minutes ago, GrifEtSabine said:

Guiness in a Can sounds sacrilegious but with the internal widget it comes the closest to a Dublin Tap 

If you do extra stout it makes up for the canned taste.