Having just been on holiday, I was forced (well kind of) to drink commercial beers. Currently in Canada, it appears that the market is being driven by the smaller micros, only because the beer is cheap to buy, which brings me to many of the problems with Canadians and their beer tastes, but that is another story.
So jumping to the oppertunity I resolved myself that I wasn't about to pay more than 24 dollars for a case. Amazingly, there were some pretty good ones out there, including one by the majors.
Not to shabby.
The beer market is looking up, shame peoples tastes aren't changing
Dogger
Commercial Beer
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Dogger Dan
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"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
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peterd
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I have also been recently forced to spend a couple of weeks drinking commercial beers - been in the land of Singha.
I was very surprised to find how extensive the penetration of German Weissbiers are there: pretty well every decent resturaunt, and many not-at-all-decent bars , offered some combination of Erdinger, Paulaner or Weihestephaner! And all for a small handful of funny money! What joy!
And, of course, everyone has Singha, most have Heineken, Leo (local), Chang (local), Tiger, ...
To cap off a pretty good two weeks, the hotel I stayed at had free drinks and snacks from 5 to 7:30 each day: chance to get well and truly primed on Singha or Heineken prior to getting serious about the night's drinking
I was very surprised to find how extensive the penetration of German Weissbiers are there: pretty well every decent resturaunt, and many not-at-all-decent bars , offered some combination of Erdinger, Paulaner or Weihestephaner! And all for a small handful of funny money! What joy!
And, of course, everyone has Singha, most have Heineken, Leo (local), Chang (local), Tiger, ...
To cap off a pretty good two weeks, the hotel I stayed at had free drinks and snacks from 5 to 7:30 each day: chance to get well and truly primed on Singha or Heineken prior to getting serious about the night's drinking
peterd
Sometimes I sits and drinks, and sometimes I just sits
(with apologies to Satchel Paige)
Sometimes I sits and drinks, and sometimes I just sits
(with apologies to Satchel Paige)