At least one poll has the Greens strides ahead of Labor and the Liberals and winning over voters at Saturday's federal election.
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"Normally election time rolls around and everyone rolls their eyes," said Nick Parkinson, director and executive chef at Braddon's Hopscotch bar.
"After going through five prime ministers in nearly five years, we thought we might jump on board with the election and do something a little bit different."
Enter the Beer Democracy, a contest to determine who will "govern" the bar.
A beer and a cocktail is assigned to each party. The numbers of each ordered by patrons are tracked, then added to the tally board at the end of each night.
On the Greens tap is the Stone & Wood Pacific Ale, behind the blue tap is Capital Brewing Co's Coast Ale and for Labor it's the Endeavour Red Ale. In the interest of fairness, a glass costs a uniform $8.
For cocktails, it's a Labor Cosmo, a Liberal Lagoon or a Green Slipper, again the same at $16.
The latest tally had the Greens at 742, Labor on 605 and Liberals on 600.
The tongue-in-cheek contest has paid off with a boost in sales for the bar, Mr Parkinson said. But, needless to say, the poll is neither official, nor scientific.
"We purposefully put the Greens into leading position on the tap with already one of our biggest sellers," he said. "We wanted to give the Greens a fair chance at governing the bar."
Associate professor at ANU's Centre for Social Research and Methods Ben Phillips warned of skewed results from people "voting" after a few beers.
"Strikes me that the main issue would be that people would just go and buy whatever drink they want and, if it happens to be a Greens drink, well that's a Greens drink," he said.
"And there's always the issue that, once one's had more than a couple to drink, we do silly things and we start voting Green when we really vote Liberal."
Professor Phillips said more official polls showed Labor and the Coalition fairly even, and some showed Liberals enjoying a slight advantage, particularly in marginal seats.
Hopscotch's Beer Democracy poll will close on Saturday.
"Saturday night we're going to have our own election party and, towards the end of the night, we'll announce the winner, who's going to govern the whole bar at Hopscotch," Mr Parkinson said.
