darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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I'm a beer geek, not a beer snob, because if you're being snobby about beer, you're definitely doing something wrong.
Dieu du Ciel is a damn fine Canadian brewery, located in Montreal. In the near future they will be brewing a collaboration beer with New Belgium. Look out for that gem!
Someone already said it: Unibroue beers are GOOD. "Fin du Monde" and "La Terrible" are my favorites.
Bud Light lime is of course awful. Anyone ever tried Bud Light Chelada? I see them here in California but will never try one.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Wow, I'd totally forgotten about O'Keefe's Extra Bad Stock. I was reduced
to drinking it the winter I had to hit the mattresses up on Mt Washington.
The Chicago wise guys never had a clue. Man, I could totally walk the
streets of Comox with nary a worry!
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Drank a bunch of Kokanee in high school (Montana)...
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Great beer...
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Loose translation for the rotten piss of a drunken francophone in a bottle with the canoe you guys like is "end of the world"
This was another one of my underage favorites
O'keefe even stepped up their original hi test when I was about 16 or so....
And who could forget
Those were the days. A few of them & toot off the popcan filled with someone's parents chemo & it was off to the races, puberty powered by kryptonite.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dingus is correct.
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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American beer tastes like cat piss !
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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In Comox I have only seen the locals drink this.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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beer and ireland go together
canada and pot seeds go together
canada and beer is not a match-the board goes back...
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Silver
Gym climber
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Kokanee and of course isn't Moosehead from up north?
The only problem with Canadian beer is the fricken price. Sure you got free health care but who the hell can afford to buy enough beer up there to us the health care.
I do love that chiller thing in the liquor store. Out your beer in the cold water spa for a few and its ice cold. I saw that first in squampton. Hmmmm
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Silver, sad story- the water chillers in the BCL are long gone:-( they were a nice touch & helped offset the costs a bit since in BC only private liquor stores sell coldies (usually $2-5 more for a 6er). I think they've been gone for about 8 or 9 years at least maybe longer?? You are totally right though, our beer is too expensive from all the fun tax added to it. Moosehead- Canada's oldest independent brewery.
Some other nice Canadian beers available these days:
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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Two interesting facts:
1. Time after time, taste tests throughout North America prove that beer drinkers cannot pick out their favorite beer among 5-7 other similar beers. (The same holds true for cola soft drinks.)
This suggests that marketing is what distinguishes beers (and colas), not taste.
2. Men have always had a love affair with long-necked bottles. Short necked bottles, although cheaper to produce, store, and ship) are not preferred by men.
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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Those are some interesting facts about the American beer market!
Most folks have grown accustomed to the watered down "pale lager" style here in the US, but is it because we actually liked it that way? Not at all! The over abundance of corn and rice (coupled with relative barley shortages) caused brewers in America to incorporate these non-traditional grains into beer. This gave rise to our modern American macro-brew selection, which still contain large amounts of "adulterants" (corn and rice). So now we say that "we like it that way", but only after having nothing but that for many decades! I think the bar has just been set horribly low for beer in America as a result of this. Needless to say, coors light ain't in accordance with the "ReInheitsgebot"!
And fortunately, we all probably live near some amazing breweries, since there are so many popping up. I'm within two miles of Green Flash, Alesmith, and Ballast Point. So we can definitely take advantage of the "good beer revolution" happening now!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Time after time, taste tests throughout North America prove that beer drinkers cannot pick out their favorite beer among 5-7 other similar beers. (The same holds true for cola soft drinks.)
Speaking as a beer geek, who has very definite tastes and opinions, I have to say...
...you are 100% right.
I can never decide if its hilarious or depressing to listen to people who claim to have extensive beer knowledge say that they can always pick out their favorites.
If you know beer well, you can tell a lot in a blind test. Ditto for wine. But put half a dozen similar beers in front of someone in a blind test, and very few people in the world will be able to identify them, even if they know them all fairly well.
Edit: On the subject of style, things are quite different. The above only applies to a selection of beers (or whatevers) that are all of a similar style.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I always know...
when mine is empty!
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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Fun facts about "bad beer":
Rolling rock's brewing process has a little "extra step" to it, whereby dimethyl sulfide (DMS) Is not permitted to evaporate off, causing it to remain in the beer. This is because Rolling Rock's dedicated consumers have come to expect that quality in their beer. Generally it would be considered a mistake to have DMS in a finished beer, as it is known for its generally unpleasant odor. There was a time when Rolling Rock changed the process and allowed DMS to evaporate off, but sales declined thereafter, and so the old process was put back in place to ensure that it had its "classic flavor".
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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who drinks a beer thoughtfully with the intent of writing a "Spectator" like description?
and after a few, who cares?
that being said, you have to get those first few down before it doesn't matter anymore... a low bar, I know, but a bar nonetheless
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strangeday
Trad climber
Brea ca.
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Is all beer in Canada crazy expensive? I was just talking to a guy from Calgary recently, and he said that a 12 pack of Budweiser was $20-22 there. I thought he was joking, but the look he gave me when I said it was $8 for the same thing here, made me think he wasn't.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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No way, Shuswap beers!
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