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Topic: The joke about American beer being weaker
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Sisyphus
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posted 07 March 2003 05:17 PM
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ahem... Unibroue...
You may be right, ronb. I don't know it. I shall see if I can buy it here or in Quebec. I didn't include microbrews because they are supra-national. Even America has some great microbrews, I'm told...  It's just that so many of those Canadians who get so smug when telling that joke, then order a Molson Dry or a Blue as proof that Canada's beers are so much superior
 . Creemore Springs is the best Canadian beer I know. (Never understood the appeal of the Upper Canada products, m'self). Brick and Big Rock beers are pretty good. And despite their commercials, I like Sleemans beers, too. Actually, I'm wrong about Creemore Springs. It's the best damn lager I've tasted anywhere, anytime.  [ 07 March 2003: Message edited by: Sisyphus ]
From: Never Never Land | Registered: Sep 2001
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Black Dog
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posted 07 March 2003 06:57 PM
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All beer sucks.
BLASPHEMY!! Vancouver's Granville Island Brewery makes a numnber of yummy ales and lagers. Sleeman's Honey Brown Ale is awesome. Big Rock's Grasshopper Pale Ale is the next best thing to ambrosia. And, dollar for dollar, you can't beat an ice-cold Pil! Sadly enough, the worst Canadian beer I've ever encountered is the one that bears the Canadian moniker.
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radiorahim
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posted 08 March 2003 01:31 AM
Actually its the beer produced by the large conglomerates that tastes like piss...although true...U.S. corporate conglomerate beer is somewhat pissier.The U.S. breweries put things like corn syrup and rice malts in their beer...making it really not beer at all. But just as in Canada, there are some very good micro-breweries in the U.S. One half-decent U.S. brew that is easily available in Ontario is Samuel Adams Lager from the Boston Brewing Co. There are others...but you have to hit the LCBO "Vintages" stores.
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oldgoat
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posted 09 March 2003 01:44 AM
I think US and Canadian beers are becoming more alike. I read the math somewhere that proved that we do measure it a bit differently from the Yanks and in reality ours is only a bit stronger. There are historical differences. Those who settled in the eastern and great lakes states tended to bring mid-European and German brewing traditians with them, and made more lagers. Those who settled in Upper and Lower Canada tended more to make ales. With the mass marketing of the 20th century, the two became more similar, and today a large brewery ale and a lager are not hugely different. I like the imported, and local micro-brewery stuff, but not so much that I've ever turned down a Schlitz or a Labatt's 50 if offered. [ 09 March 2003: Message edited by: oldgoat ]
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