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New Poll: Would you support the return of "DRY" beer
Poll Discussion by RICHSBEER
Noticed a local craft beer place toying with dry beer. They were out of stock so didn't get the chance to try it. As one old enough to recall that craze, I don't recall being that taken with dry beer.
5 years ago
Bought some of this for camping a few weeks back, as I knew older people would be there - and wanted to share. Have not bought this since my review of it, probably 15-20 years ago. It was alright to drink cold, but as the ice melted (no power) it got really hard to drink. And I got headaches from it. For me, Labatt 50 is the way to go for swill and from this brewery. This one shows a little more hops, refreshing, easy-to-drink and no headaches. Too bad I do not think it is in States.
MARTINSANDERS
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It was a popular beer when I was in University, but unfortunately Budweiser has supplanted the Export/Canadian and 50/Blue as the go to beer for a lot of people, and I find the other 4 superior to the unpalatable Budweiser.
This area had/has a special limited release brew = Labatt Blue with Orange. In royal blue bottles, it's a tribute to the Syracuse Orange. A blend of Labatt Blue and blood orange, from Rochester. Good for what it is, but not something that a dedicated drinker of beer that tastes like BEER would prefer. Probably highly collectible, but I'm not a collectible's person. I drank the case up and gave the bottles away. I have a 30 rack of Molson Canadian here. I ass-u-me-d it was also from Rochester...but no, it's from Toronto! Go figure? :D
Labatt Canada and Labatt USA are two different companies owned by two different unrelated brewers. To the best of my knowledge, AB-InBev licenses the 'name' Labatt Blue and Labatt Blue Light to North American Brewers in Rochester, but the beer itself is a different beast and has been for a decade or so. There are certain areas of the US where they import the Canadian stuff, and this is marked on the bottle as 'imported'. Likewise, any other beers in the USA carrying the Labatt banner have nothing to do with the former Canadian brewer anymore. The only Labatt product I have any interest in is 50. Readily available, and doesn't taste awful. As for Molson, they have always exported their beer (and others) into the US. When I did my Ph.D in the early 90s in Memphis, you could buy Molson products, "brewed in Canada, imported by Molson USA (Reston, Virginia)". One such product was brewed in Toronto, and shipped to the US, but American's thought it was Australian.....Fosters. between 1987 and 2002, 90% of the Fosters sold in the US (and France of all places) was brewed at the former Carling O'Keefe facility just outside the Toronto airport. If only Americans had read the bottle.... :) The Molson-Coors merger changed that.