BS: Canadian Beer

Subject: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 09:25 AM

I read an article in the local maritiem CBC Web site stating that Moosehead Breweries is the largest Canadian Brewer ... my immediate reaction was 'hang on here' ... but in retrospect they are suprisingly.

Little old Mooshead, brewed here in Saint John N.B is now left carrying the national standard.

The demise of Canadian beer ... Molson, Labbatt's, even the succesfull upstart Sleeman's are no longer Canadian.

We are selling off our national treasures.

BTW ... the article had to do with Mooshead supplying (free) beer to Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 10:36 AM

Yay for Moosehead! (How do they get away with supplying alcohol to troops in an Islamic country? The US can't.)

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 10:47 AM

What do you mean that Molson's and Labatt's "are no longer Canadian"?

Russ (not a Canadian myself)

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 11:41 AM

They have been bought out. That is, controlling interest in the breweries now resides outside Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 11:46 AM

We still have micro breweries in Halifax who produce such delights as, Garrison Brown Ale and Propeller Bitter. If you come to Nova Scotia you must try these real ales mates.
http://www.drinkpropeller.ca/beer/

http://www.garrisonbrewing.com/brown.html

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: number 6
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 11:50 AM

Excellent beers they are Dave.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 11:56 AM

Yes sIx mate! and I will miss them very much if I end up posted to HQ in Ottawa...However, I'm sure they will become popular there too one day.

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: gnu
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 01:25 PM

These guys in Moncton are doing okay.

Don't forget that Moosehead won gold medals in Europe and NA this past year. It IS a darn good beer.

On the other hand, the most popular brand of beer in New Brunswick is Bud. Yup, Bud outsells even Alpine and the various Moose. (I cannot bring myself to type "Mooses".) However, I may be giving up the beer in the near future, so that may change.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 02:35 PM

It should be pointed out that the Bud gnu mentioned is not imported, ... brewed by Labatts, and in general tastes like a Labatt's, though it is labelled and packaged as Bud   .... Labatt also brews, labels and packages Guinness in the same way ... but in all honesty it is not Guiness, it is absolute garbage. How they get away with that I don't know.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:52 PM

Do Molson and Labatt's still taste the way they used to taste?
I drank my fair share in the 70s when I lived near the border.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:56 PM

Swap ya some Moose Drool and Cutthroat and Dead Guy and Blue Paddle and Bitch Creek and stuff for some of that Halifax beer!

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST,dax
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 05:01 PM

Imported or not Bud is horsepiss and Bud Light is horsepiss diluted with swampwater. Advertising seems to have cracked the egg with the younger crowd. Moose is far better and so is Keiths. As for the Halifax cottage breweries I agree with Dave. Halifax also has some great brew pubs. Asa for the Islamic country that our troops are in they are the world's largest producers of illegal opium so any protesters can kiss my arse!

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 05:09 PM

"Labatt also brews, labels and packages Guinness"

I'm not certain they still do that....

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 05:10 PM

Keiths! Yeah!

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 05:12 PM

Keiths... "Fizzy yellow beer is for wussies!"

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: number 6
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 07:57 PM

Clinton ... Labatt's is still selling their Guinness out here ... maybe trying to cash in on the Irish heritage ... I don't know of anyone who drinks it .... especially when you can procure the real imported stuff in pubs and the NB Liquor Board outlets.

Keith's is pretty good.

I don't know whether Molson's or Labatt's still taste the same as they did in the 70's ... haven't touched that stuff in years.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: NH Dave
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:07 PM

No, Rapaire, the US won't take the chance of offending the Muslims so won't allow the troops fighting there buy beer at the Exchange(US NAAFI). The Canadians don't seem to worry about offending the Muslims, that they are fighting.

Go Canadians! Vive Les Canadiens! (?)

Dave
MSGT, USAF, Ret.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Raptor
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:10 PM

I was in Buffalo yesterday at the Tailgate and Game and 30000 people were drinking Canadian beer. I only saw 1 coors in the crowd.

Thats why Coors bought Molsons out!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:21 PM

Big Rock in Calgary produces some good beers and ales. Heinekins and Dos Ecces (XX, brown beer) are good imports. Many good local and micro-brewery products across Canada but of course Molsons, Labatt, Bud and other mass-produced stuff is still drunk by the masses, regardless of where it is brewed(?).
Kokanee from British Columbia is popular, but is not really distinctive.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:22 PM

"especially when you can procure the real imported stuff in pubs and the NB Liquor Board outlets"
I get the real thing delivered to my house in kegs....

" Keith's is pretty good."
If you like the taste of syphilitic horse urine, sure I guess....
:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Big Mick
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:32 PM

This is one of the big differences between Minnesota and the Maritimes. In the Maritimes, Moosehead is beer, in Minnesota its a misdemeanor ***snerk*** Gawd that is an old joke. Still works in my pub shows though.

I love Moosehead Beer. It is one of the only beers that I can see through, that I drink.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 03:01 PM

Mmmmmm Moosehead mmmmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Inukshuk
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 07:31 PM

I have heard it said that James Ready (a mighty fine brew and cheap) is also produced by Moosehead. Would someone please confirm.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 08:21 PM

If you got the real Danish Giraffe you are damn lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: number 6
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 09:46 PM

Inukshuk ... yes Mooshead does brew James Ready ... I must admit I never tired it.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Beer
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 10:09 PM

Moosehead arrived here in Quebec a few years back. I can go out to any corner store up to 11 at night a pick up a case. Great great beer.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Dave Swan
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:57 PM

I've passed many a happy night near Whitehorse drinking the products of the folks at Yukon beer. Good stuff on a long winter's night.
D

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: closet-folkie
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 01:34 PM

What? No mention of "Maudite"? Gives any of the Belgian Abbey ales a run for their money, in my opinion. Cheers then, Steve R.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 01:48 PM

Maudite is garbage!

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 01:51 PM

Is that your opinion, or is that a pronouncement that all are supposed to accept as the gospel according to Clinton Hammond?

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: closet-folkie
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 02:32 PM

"Maudite is garbage!" Clinton Hammond.

Of course it is, just like McCartney has no sense of melody.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 02:37 PM

Clinton, let me help you out here. I think you meant to say, "In my opinion, Maudite is garbage!". You are welcome. Glad to help.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 04:23 PM

At this moment I am enjoying a "half & half" mixture of Moosehead Dry Ice 6% with Holsten Festbock 7%(dark German beer) in a large frosted mug. I used to brew my own but I am getting lazy in recent years.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Cool Beans
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 05:53 PM

Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax beer?

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 07:25 PM

The last barrel drank at Privateers (pub in the old port of Halifax)

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 10:26 PM

The Lower Deck no doubt. Dropped a few jars there myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: closet-folkie
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 09:16 AM

By the way, if anyone has any Maudite languishing in their trashcan, would you mind sending it my way? I'm sick of paying $3.50 for each bottle I buy. Of course, "Fin Du Mond" would work in an emergency.
PS. Frosty mug? Sacrilege.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: ositojuanito
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 12:10 PM

I was in Northern Ontario this winter and I thought that Northern was the best ale

John

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 04:57 PM

Garrison's Brewery was mentioned... for something very very interesting, give their Jalepeno beer a try... gots a mighty kick to it (very good for marinading/cooking)

Oh, and one more thing... isn't the line supposed to be

"I'm a drunk old man singin' on the stage here,
Would someone buy me a f***in' beer?!?"

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM

Screw off, Mick, go help yourself to half a clue... I meant to say exactly what I said... Not everybody is a passive-aggressive, wet-blouse like you are.

"Maudite" & "Fin Du Mond"
If that's the kind of skite that flips your switch, get a few bottles of Arrogant Bastard Ale.... It's the same kinda swill...

www.arrogantbastard.com

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 05:28 PM

Learn a new term, did ya, clint boy? You have used "passive aggressive" in several threads and a couple of different contexts, now. Good lad, I am sure your ma is proud.

But I still think that you meant to say that "in your opinion" the stuff isn't very good. Otherwise what your statement is a gratuitous assertion. Look that one up. That way you can throw that one around too. Should be good for a couple of admiring glances from mom. I am sure she is very proud of how well you learned manners and how to talk to people.

And I still think Moosehead is a great beer.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 05:48 PM

Ya but you also like sucking off moose...

Pedantic, egotistical, little, squirt-stain.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 06:45 AM

Mighty proud, indeed.

Pedantic, egotistical, little, squirt-stain. ??? Odd way to sign off a post. I don't find you pedantic. You are much too hard-on, yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Beer
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 07:44 AM

A little story that happened to stupid me (us). 35 years ago last Monday, the good wife and I were returning from N.S. to Quebec. I decided to fill up the station wagon with Maritime beer. So I gets Moosehead, Ten Penny, and Olands.
   Decided to go through the States as a short cut. Got to the border up this way and was asked what the hell was I doing trans[porting alcohol from one country into another. Long story short the border guard let us pass with all my beer. As I recall I had 8-10 cases of 24. I think it was the just married sign still on the hood of the car that did it.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 02:10 PM

How many mile to the gallon didja get, fillin' up the station wagon with Moosehead an' all that?

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 02:24 PM

further than you would drinking it....

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: GUEST,Lexie Luther
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 03:15 PM

A riddle for ya:
What's the difference between Clinton Hammond and a hemorrhoid on a dog's arse?
Answer:
Others of the same species show interest in the hemorrhoid.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Beer
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 03:28 PM

Back then, beer was more important then gas prices. That would have been 1971 so I guess the gas was not to expensive. Today I would lean toward Keith's instead of the Moose.

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 03:33 PM

Another cowardly 'guest'.... big surprise.....

Subject: RE: BS: Canadian Beer
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:11 PM

Well, CH... that's the kind of flies your shit attracts. Seriously... the moose comment? You can do better than that... I hope.