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From: wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman)
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Subject: Re: NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER (BEER SODA)
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 00:10:57 EDT
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From wimp Tue May 21 23:10:49 1985
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Subject: Re: NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER (BEER SODA)


> Does anyone remember a soda that tasted like beer?  I vaguely remember this
> product being sold about 15 years ago (I was 10 at the time).  It wasn't
> available for too long maybe only a summer or two.  No one seems to remember
> it not even the friends I hung around with back then.  I'm positive there
> was such a product.  Then again maybe it was the real thing and it ate my
> memory away:-).

						> Joseph M. Dakes

     I know that when I was back home (Minneapolis) a few years ago, the
Grain Belt Brewery had a product out called "Near Beer" that tasted like
beer but had no alcohol.  I don't know if it's still around, but it's the
only beer-like "soda?" that I ever heard of.

Jeff