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- From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Short shameful Xmas confession
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.184736.5107@walter.cray.com>
- Originator: jcarroll@ferris
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- Sender: jcarroll@ferris (Jeff Carroll)
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- Organization: Beautiful Bellevue Association
- References: <schnitzi.725395405@eola.cs.ucf.edu> <1992Dec28.074154.19461@emr1.emr.ca> <1992Dec28.145508.24354@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Distribution: talk
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:47:36 CST
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- In article <1992Dec28.145508.24354@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec28.074154.19461@emr1.emr.ca> taylor@ccrs.emr.ca (Trevor Taylor) writes:
- > >In article <schnitzi.725395405@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- > >>When I was home for the holidays, my dad was drinking 'Black Label
- > >>Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverage'. I am disowning him.
- > >
- > >What the hell is 'black label'...... no booze beverage
- > >
- > >We have Black Label beer on Johnny Walker Black label,
- > >but both these are full of alcohol
- >
- > Down here, the otherwise-estimable G. Heileman Brewing Co. has recently
- > started selling a deballed version of Black Label "Canadian Style [I hope
- > they don't consider calling it that an act of war]" Beer, one of my four
- > major food groups in college, when it cost about six and a half bucks a
- > case.
-
- "Otherwise-estimable", my ass. The only part of that operation that's
- "estimable" is the marketing department, which succeeds at selling that
- sorry offal they call "Old Style" at half the taverns and all the carryouts
- in Chicago, at non-cheap-beer prices.
-
- Then there's that brand they call "Special Export", which used to come in
- bottles that looked like Molson Golden, and sold at Molsonesque prices.
- Tasted like Molson too. The difference is that Molson sits in a 150-degree
- warehouse for several weeks before (or after) it crosses the border, acquiring
- that distinctive skunky flavor, and Heileman Special Export has it from day
- one.
-
- Of course, if I lived in North Carolina, I probably wouldn't know what beer
- tastes like either.
-
- DISCLAIMER: I have no actual knowledge of how the hell Molson gets that
- godawful taste. All I know is that it's there.
-