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[Alma J Wetzker]

Ralph Sanford wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 14:29, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 
>>On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:38 pm, Ralph Sanford wrote:
>>
>>>Shawn and Bruce,
>>>
>>>Even if it was possible to run out of beer in Canada, I can not imagine
>>>that I would be looking to the US as a replacement source of beer.
>>>There are a lot of American things that are desirable, but as a rule
>>>American beer is not one of them.
>>
>>I'll go along with that....    however Canadian beer doesn't stand out in my 
>>list either.  (not trying to start an argument here)
>>
>>I don't see why good beers have to be in such a minority in the U.S.
>>
>>Wanna pick your favorite Canadian beer?   Curious minds want to know.
> 
> 
> Absolutely agree that Canadian beer is not the world's best.  Just that
> when comparing generic lagers that us North Americans prefer, then the
> Canadian generic (Molson, Labatt, etc) is preferable to the American
> generic (Millar, Bud, Rainer, Old Milwaukee, etc) mostly cause there is
> a little more flavour in the Canadian.  Sorry but the American generic
> tastes like it has had all the unique flavour removed so as to not have
> any flavour that anyone could be offended by. 
> 
The major brands of beer in the USA suffer from their success.  the 
temperature changes that take place during shipping tend to 'age' the beer 
unacceptably.  So they engineer the flavor out of the stuff to promote longer 
shelf and shipping life.  I understand that they can make good stuff, they 
just don't.  (I don't drink it myself but I know some folks who worked for AB 
when I was in St. Louis, MO [my home town])

[snip personal preferences]

     -- Alma