From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:34:29 -0600, Gene McAloon
 wrote:

>I don't see it that way. I have been around long enough to remember when few
>people complained about the national beers. The complaints began in the late
>'60s and '70s when they started to change their beers to capture that half of
>the potential drinkers that traditionally didn't drink beer, women.
>
>There was never any question of anyone accepting that lousy beer without
>complaint. And Joe-six-pack exists in places like Dubuque as well as
everywhere
>else. The older people in such places still don't accept it. It is the young
>people and women who are perfectly content to drink the national's rotgut
>because they don't know any better.
>
>Another aspect of this is the 3.2 rotgut the military served to its people
>during WW II and the Korean war. Given that they were serving it to kids who
>might have been getting their first taste of beer, that might have set in
motion
>the acceptance of lousy beer.
>
>Some sociologist should write a paper on this stuff.


Makes sense.  Those changes would have started about the time that I became
'legal' - and I wasn't drinking enough to notice anything .

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