I’ll Betcha Not.

29 Replies to “I’ll Betcha Not.”

1. They can do whatever they want with their horse-piss-beer, I don’t ever drink that swill.

2. What Mr Galt said.

3. Same here, they might as well add Molson and Labatts to the list since it wouldn’t make any difference to me. Micro breweries and my own downstairs brewery kick any mainstream beers arse.

4. Happily, beer is super easy to make in the basement. Even more happily, I gave up drinking ages ago, so I really really don’t care a tinker’s whatsit if AnheiserBuschMillerBudwieser buys up the entire beer making universe. Let them drink pee, I say.
   Now, if I could only find a way to give up food…

5. A few years back there was a brewers convention in Los Vegas. All the big names were there along with some lesser knowns. One evening the CEOs of Bud, Millers and Big Rock (an Alberta brewery) went to the bar and ordered some refreshments. Said one “Its Millers time”, Said another “I’ll have the King of Beers” Said the Albertan,”I’ll have a Coke”. “You don’t drink your own beer?” Said the other two. “Oh I drink beer”, said the Albertan, “But since you two weren’t drinking beer I decided I wouldn’t either”.
   Remember if you’re drinking American beer “Its the Schlitz”

6. Nice

7. Years ago Mad Magazine had a series on completing the advertising slogan.
   In that spirit remember when the Coors ad was “Coors Beer. Brewed with Rocky Mountain Spring Water”
   To complete it you could add “Lots of it”

8. Coors is like making love in a canoe…
   f**kin’ close to water.

9. Back in the day, I recall encountering real fosters Beer with a coupla US associates, fortunately Canadian beer had given me a partial immunity…..the yanks went down like the FNs did to smallpox…..

10. I agree, no one I know willingly drinks this wet diaper beer.
    Looks like desperation from the mega brewers consolidating all the synthetic beer brands – crafted beer is taking many of their local market share away.

11. This is an actual Alabama State Representative discussing a bill that proposes to increase the legal alcohol content of beer to 6%.
    Yes,,, this is an elected official in the United States of America. We are doomed as a nation if this is the best of the best we have to offer as public servants.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cj5IFdapS8

12. I think I’ll have one of those Pepperoni beers with my pizza tonight. (but seriously, I would rather drink squirrel piss)

13. there seem to be a few in here who know what various types of p*ss taste like:-)))

14. Stand fast Big Rock!

15. Those mass-market American beers like Coors and Bud are tasteless swill, but I’d honestly rather drink one of those – if there were no other options – than 90 percent of the waaay overly-hopped craft-beer Canadian IPAs.
    I know a lot of people like IPAs – and that’s fine – but to me the IPA “movement” three-quarters wrecked Canadian beer for people who aren’t fans of massively-hopped beer. A brewer I know in Vancouver – he’s worked at three different small breweries – agrees. Those old-fashioned, slightly flat (in terms of carbonation) pub ales had a nice balance between the malt and the hops, which is what makes brewing them a bit of an art; the IPA fad allowed bad brewers to just dump a bunch of hops in and call it beer, and now it’s really, really hard to find a non-hoppy brew on tap, because even the stuff that *isn’t* labelled IPA is all hops.
    It’s cheater beer.
    That’s my rant..

16. Some of their European brews aren’t bad but the American stuff doesn’t cut it. Many years ago, we had an American crew visit Summerside. By prior arrangement with the bartender, every Canadian beer they got had an ounce of Vodka in it. The stories they told about Canadian beer when they headed back down South must have been hilarious.

17. If you like non-hoppy beer, and if you haven’t already you should try a hefeweizen. That is what I love and brew.

18. In Ontario it’s the unholy trinity: big government, big businesses, and big unions that control all booze sales. They can all kiss my arse.

19. I like hefeweizens sometimes in the summer, but I really miss the taste of (not burnt) malt in a good ale. The closest beer I’ve found (or used to find) to the malty British pub-style ales is Shaftesbury Cream Ale (on tap, not bottled), but it’s been supplanted pretty much everywhere by that overly hoppy crap.
    It’s funny, when you order a pint of bitter in England it isn’t actually bitter at all, at least not compared to those &#%&@ IPAs.

20. I agree with the “burnt” or in my taste buds term “nutty” flavour, which is why most of Big Rocks brews I tend to stay away from. I however like their lime beer for the hop notes, and I do miss their Royal Coachmen. German Dunkel’s are also too “nutty” for me.
    Have you had Kilkenny? Another cream ale found in pubs and isn’t over powered by hops.

21. Our local brewery makes a range of beers from heavy on the hops to heavy on the malt.
    My favorite is a dark brown ale with a strong malt flavor and just a hint of hops. They also make an IPA with enough hops to make it smell like skunk piss.
    That’s what sets Canadian beers apart from American swill that all tastes the same.

22. Yes! Kilkenny is a very tasty beer, and a good example of what I was talking about: You can actually taste the malted barley, in large part because they don’t overwhelm it by dumping a bunch of hops into it.
    Domestic, big-label, “union-made” beers like Canadian or Pilsner (rabbit-on-the-can Pilsner) actually give me a headache the next day if I have more than…let’s say a couple, and unfortunately some foreign beers, including Kilkenny, do the same; I’m told (which doesn’t mean it’s true) that it’s because of the use of preservatives.
    Don’t have that problem with Grolsch, or Becks, for example, or Stella (which is a fine beer but has a bit too viscous a mouth feel for my taste), but Tuborg and Kilkenny are one or two beer…beer.
    Mmm…beer.

23. What can be said that hasn’t been?
    These mainstream beers are swill. Choose other brands (perhaps local) or make your own.

24. EBD – you have to get out more – craft brew pubs are brimming with great fresh, all natural, properly aged stouts, ESBs, milds, brown ales, Dunkels, Schwarzbiers, and even well made Pilsners. There is a thriving real beer industry in this country.

25. A worthy mention IMO and not everyone’s “cup of tea” is Quebec’s Unibroue. It went fairly commercial a few years ago when Sleeman purchased the company, but has also remained unique and interesting.

26. You all need to get out more.
    The range of this “mega beer corporation” will include not only the usual commercial brands but also a vast array of regional beers and even small micro-brewery offerings.
    You will likely end up drinking one of its products at some point without even realizing it.

27. Not if You stick to fresh draft from local micro brewers

28. Agreed, and not to mention that in house breweries(pubs or restaurants who brew their own) would never sell out as it would destroy their business model.

29. Re this purative panoply of high-quality craft brew pubs, I think it probably depends to a certain extent on what city you’re in.