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From: veerman@winston.UUCP (Maarten Veerman)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: stubby beer bottles
Message-ID: <248@winston.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 16:46:08 EST
Article-I.D.: winston.248
Posted: Fri Nov  7 16:46:08 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 07:27:15 EST
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Reply-To: veerman@winston.UUCP (Maarten Veerman)
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Organization: New Media Technologies, Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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Summary: 

In article <290@ubc-vision.UUCP> majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka) writes:
>
>A case :-) in point:  Foster's Lager.  I don't really care if Maarten
>Veerman thinks I am a beer snob.  I'm not.  I just like to try lots of brews
>from lots of breweries.

I think you misunderstand me. I don't mean that anyone who drinks import
beer is a snob. Heck, I like to quaff a few Heinies now and then myself,
when I can cash in on 6/49, or the VSE gains 100 points :-).

The point is that the GQ type beer snob DOES exist, and it is this type of
person that the marketing types in the breweries are thinking about when
they sell 'Fosters' or 'Coors' or 'Budweiser' that is brewed in Canada. The
taste of these "imports" is just like any other domestic brew. Like someone
said, the spigot is located in a different part of the same vat.

So your beer dollar doesn't go as far anymore because part of it goes to
the yanks for using their labels, or to the bottle manufacturers for making
nonstandard green or long-neck bottles. Same beer, same taste. More $$.

BTW anyone who has been to Oz will tell you that Fosters doesn't hold a
candle to Swan Lager (from W.A.) or even Tooheys (from N.S.W.). And Aussie
beer (unlike ours) is very pure, just like the German stuff. No chemicals.

Food for thought: All Canadian beer contains a small amount of fromaldehide
in order to increase its shelf life. This is partly the government's fault,
because they refuse to refrigerate beer in their 'outlets', and they demand
a certain shelf life from the breweries. American beer also contains this
wonderful substance, but they can print 'No Preservatives' on their labels
because fromaldehide is not classified as a preservative in the USA. (All
this according to a friend of mine who is a sales rep for Carling O'). This
is why great beers like Granville Island Lager are available only cold
directly from the brewer (cold beer does not need preservative), or from
the government liquor 'outlets' with a 'best before: xx/xx/xx' stamp.

Any votes out there for a law calling for contents to be printed on the
label, just like most other foods?
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