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

That was pretty good, eh ?  .

I've been making my own for over 10 years now and I much prefer a beer with
some flavour to it - although it *did* take a while to get used to the
homebrew difference .



On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:37:13 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>Actually, you're quite close to the answer.  Next door neighbour is a VP
>Marketing and has handled the two major breweries at one time or another.
>He was saying that, basically, most people have their first beer from one of
>the majors and that "tells" them what beer is supposed to taste like.
>
>This leaves brewers with two choices:  brew something very close to that and
>sell it to the broad market or brew something different and sell it to a
>much smaller market.
>
>Interestingly enough, the same beer does vary slightly by market.  At the
>Ontario Science Centre about 12-15 years ago, there was an "everyday
>chemistry" exhibit and one of the guys was a brewmaster from Molson.  He was
>talking to Josh (my buddy who dragged me along) and me and Josh asked about
>Export.  Guy says it's different in Quebec:  sweeter.  I _keep_ meaning to
>test this out but it would mean drinking two Molson Export beers and I can't
>bring myself to do that. :-)
>
>
>
>"Doug Bryce"  wrote in message
>news:405e32e0.68235087{at}news.barkto.com...
>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:51:24 -0600, Gene McAloon
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> >That sounds encouraging although I am no admirer of stout, anyone's
>stout.
>> >
>> >The thing about the Dubuque brewery was that it was not in any sense a
>> >micro-brewery. It was a long-established local brewery that had just
>never
>> >tried, or perhaps couldn't afford, to go national.  If you wanted to
>taste it,
>> >you had to go there.
>> >
>> >I can't help but wonder how many of local breweries still left produce
>really
>> >good beer that no one but the locals know about? And that is a
shame. The
>> >nationally distributed brands are all rotgut, every last one of them.
>> >
>> >I blame it all on Judy. It was when the nationals decided they had to do
>> >something with their product to attract the traditionally non-beer
>drinking
>> >females that they ruined the product. That's it. Blame Judy! Yeah!!
>> >
>>
>> I tend to think it's more a case of the nationals brewing their very
>> bland, appeal to 'Joe Six-pack' beers to the extent that that's what
>> everyone thinks beer should taste like.  The smaller brewers, be they
>> micro. local, or regional, tend to brew beer that is more flavourful
>> and has more 'character'.  'Joe Six-pack' doesn't like that very
>> much....so going national may not be feasible when one considers the
>> market size for real/good beer .
>>
>> doug
>>
>
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