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I recently wrote
about a (very) brief trip our family
made to Canada, and mentioned my confusion upon being exposed to my
first Canadian beer cooler. I know my beer, dammit, but I'd never even heard
of most of the brands there. It was enough to make my tiny Duke
head throb in pain.
Because of deep-dish ignorance I ended up buying something that wasn't
very good, then took to my website seeking guidance. We're planning
another, longer, visit soon, and I didn't want to repeat my
mistake.
I got a lot of good advice, but Surf Reporter Chris went above and
beyond.
Chris works in the Canadian beer industry, and actually managed a
microbrewery in London, Ontario for a while. Here's his pocket guide for
clueless Americans looking for quality beer north of the
border:
Molson Canadian,
Labatt Blue Tastes like Coors, Miller, etc.
Old Vienna Like
drinking your own urine, vomiting it up and drinking it again
Molson
Ex, Labatt 50 Ok, if you consider “Bud” to be beer.
Molson Golden Like
Old Vienna, but much worse.
Rickard’s Molson’s attempt to make “good”
beer. Like when
Miller bought
Plank
Road
in the 90’s.
Sleeman’s Most are good, especially Honey Brown
Lucky Lager Why not
just drink turpentine? It tastes better.
Keith’s Not a bad
IPA, but over rated.
Moosehead See
Keith’s above, only with the name Moosehead
Brick Lager
A good lager and not over hyped.
Creemore
It tastes like good.
Waterloo
Dark Awesome!
Big Rock
Good especially the Pale Ale and Warthog.
Upper Canada
Some are great, others
not so much. Avoid the wheat beer!!
Wellington
County
Good, especially the
dark ale.
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