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Old Posted Oct 3, 2013, 12:52 PM
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I hate the Beer Store.

Here is their Big Ten list:
http://www.thebeerstore.ca/beers/big-10-brands


Listen to this drivel:

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Coors Light

Brewer: MOLSON
Alcohol Content (ABV): 4%
Type of Beer: Light

Brewed according to the high quality standards of the Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A. Aged slowly for that legendary ice cold, easy drinking taste that could only come from a brewing tradition born in the Rockies.
In a can with mountains that turn blue when it is 0.5 Celsius above zero: to freeze your tastebuds. The "beer" has no flavor when cold, and tastes wretched when tepid. Brewed in giant cisterns the size of Olympic swimming pools with municipal tap water thousands of miles from the Rockies, with corn/barley/wheat/rice or whatever is cheapest grain, then rapidly processed with chemicals to provide clarity, preservation, and artificial foamy head. Serve ice cold in a can in order so as to completely avoid any semblance of a beer drinking experience.

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What little "marketing" does happen at the Beer Store likewise only serves to help the big guys. The "Ice Cold Express" for example, that wall of refrigerated beer, is really just a showcase of brewers with a willingness to shell out some more money for the right to be there (and guess who has that kind of dough to spend?).

Other "marketing" measures like "The Big Ten," that list of The Beer Stores' top sellers, also serve to further compound the problem by helping the big guys continue to push their own brands--because they are already the best-selling beers.

Ever see "Ten Ontario Beers You Should Try" or "Ten Great Craft IPAs" listed at The Beer Store? Not bloody likely, and you probably won't any time soon.

The Beer Store is a wildly successful monopoly wherein the three biggest players in the market are somehow being allowed to not only dictate the terms by which their smaller competition gets to enter the biggest outlet for their products but actually force them to pay for the right to do so!
http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2012..._why_it_sucks/

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