Coors Banquet Now In Canada

[Cowboy89]

I bring back this stuff back in cases every year from Montana and Idaho. As much as everyone makes light of it being a 'mass-produced' beer, I actually prefer it to micro brews.

I hate the 'craft-brew' trend anyway. Beer hipsters I say. When I want a beer, I want a smooth tasting brew that isn't a light beer. Coors banquet does the job. As for $30 a 12-pack, that's not the best news, but I'm fairly inelastic when it comes to beer pricing. I tend not to consume beer during weekdays so beer doesn't tend to weigh down my budget.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I bring back this stuff back in cases every year from Montana and Idaho. As much as everyone makes light of it being a 'mass-produced' beer, I actually prefer it to micro brews.

I hate the 'craft-brew' trend anyway. Beer hipsters I say. When I want a beer, I want a smooth tasting brew that isn't a light beer. Coors banquet does the job.

A lot of people want to try different styles of beer and the big companies don't make them. Would you call someone a hipster because they want to try something different than a McDonalds hamburger? Craft beer and microbreweries aren't even a trend anymore, we're talking 40 years here.

[DownhillGoat]

So the $30/12 beer keeps getting thrown around - isn't that pretty much on par with other brands ie Kokanee, Keiths etc? I thought they were around $27. In which case I'm not sure why the extra 25 cents a can is a big deal.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by nik-

A lot of people want to try different styles of beer and the big companies don't make them. Would you call someone a hipster because they want to try something different than a McDonalds hamburger? Craft beer and microbreweries aren't even a trend anymore, we're talking 40 years here.

I don't think there's anything wrong with people wanting to try different things. Yes, craft and microbreweries have been around for ages. The only new trend is the combination of celebrating oneself for drinking craft beers and a denegrating attitude towards other beers based only on the market capitalization of the brewer.

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I don't think there's anything wrong with people wanting to try different things. Yes, craft and microbreweries have been around for ages. The only new trend is the combination of celebrating oneself for drinking craft beers and a denegrating attitude towards other beers based only on the market capitalization of the brewer.

Yeah, but you get ######s with everything. Same goes for the people who drink piss swill beer because it costs nothing and wear it like a label that they're awesome because they drink crappy beer.

Could easily be rewritten as:

The lame old trend of the combination of celebrating oneself for drinking awful and cheap beers and a denigrating attitude towards other beers based only on the price of the beer.

Can be applied to 1,000's of other situations.

Or simply just - don't be a ######.

[WilderPegasus]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I don't think there's anything wrong with people wanting to try different things. Yes, craft and microbreweries have been around for ages. The only new trend is the combination of celebrating oneself for drinking craft beers and a denegrating attitude towards other beers based only on the market capitalization of the brewer.

If you think people denigrate swill like any beer with Coors or Bud in the name because of the brewery's market capitalization then you're delusional. It is more because that swill either tastes terrible or like nothing at all while the big breweries use every trick in the book to keep people from drinking craft beer.

It is more likely that someone drinking crap beer is the one to be denigrating the people drinking craft beer. A craft beer enthusiast will denigrate the beer of a crap beer drinker. A crap beer drinker will denigrate the craft beer enthusiast by making personal comments instead.

[PsYcNeT]

It's amusing to watch people argue about drinking such common potables as "beer" from up here on my high horse.

*sips brandy slowly*

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Yeah, but you get ######s with everything. Same goes for the people who drink piss swill beer because it costs nothing and wear it like a label that they're awesome because they drink crappy beer.

Could easily be rewritten as:

The lame old trend of the combination of celebrating oneself for drinking awful and cheap beers and a denigrating attitude towards other beers based only on the price of the beer.

Can be applied to 1,000's of other situations.

Or simply just - don't be a ######.

Tell us how you really feel.


Sent from my tablet while drinking swill.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I don't think there's anything wrong with people wanting to try different things. Yes, craft and microbreweries have been around for ages. The only new trend is the combination of celebrating oneself for drinking craft beers and a denegrating attitude towards other beers based only on the market capitalization of the brewer.

I think the comparison to McDonald's hamburgers was the most appropriate. The mass market beer producers make "generic" tasting beer that appeals to the most amount of people and offends very few.

I like McDonald's. In a pinch I often eat there because I know what I"m going to get and I not it won't be terrible, but I certainly don't go in there expecting a high end hamburger.

The same can be said for Craft beer. There are many different flavours, and some just aren't for me, so, it is often a risk as to whether I'm going to enjoy what I'm buying, but there is much greater upside in the event that I do.

Also, if you want to buy relatively non-offensive, "crowd pleasing" beer, there are local options (Wild Rose, Village, Tool Shed's "People Skills") that I would much rather support than MolsonCoors.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Also, if you want to buy relatively non-offensive, "crowd pleasing" beer, there are local options (Wild Rose, Village, Tool Shed's "People Skills") that I would much rather support than MolsonCoors.

It's beer, not a 'social justice' compitition. That's why I called out the 'mass-produced' comment. Obviously if you want unique style beers that simply cannot be produced and sold on a large scale, you have to go with craft and microbrews.

That said in the category of 'Crowd Pleasing' beers I'd take Coors Banquet straight up vs. any of the alternatives you mentioned (and I have for the most part tried them). There will be those that disagree with me, and will try and label me 'unsophisticated' for having said opinion. But to that I'm willing to assure them that I have drank enough beer in enough variety in my day to have just as valid opinion as them.

It used to be that being a beer drinker was a refuge from the world of wine drinkers where social status and faux sophistication is all wrapped up in addition to the wine itself in the bottles they drink. Seems as though now you're also judged but what kind of six pack you bring to the Super Bowl party.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I bring back this stuff back in cases every year from Montana and Idaho. As much as everyone makes light of it being a 'mass-produced' beer, I actually prefer it to micro brews.

I hate the 'craft-brew' trend anyway. Beer hipsters I say. When I want a beer, I want a smooth tasting brew that isn't a light beer. Coors banquet does the job. As for $30 a 12-pack, that's not the best news, but I'm fairly inelastic when it comes to beer pricing. I tend not to consume beer during weekdays so beer doesn't tend to weigh down my budget.

I totally agree with this. Most of these are terrible, hoppy and all I want is a "normal" beer.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

It's beer, not a 'social justice' compitition. That's why I called out the 'mass-produced' comment. Obviously if you want unique style beers that simply cannot be produced and sold on a large scale, you have to go with craft and microbrews.

That said in the category of 'Crowd Pleasing' beers I'd take Coors Banquet straight up vs. any of the alternatives you mentioned (and I have for the most part tried them). There will be those that disagree with me, and will try and label me 'unsophisticated' for having said opinion. But to that I'm willing to assure them that I have drank enough beer in enough variety in my day to have just as valid opinion as them.

It used to be that being a beer drinker was a refuge from the world of wine drinkers where social status and faux sophistication is all wrapped up in addition to the wine itself in the bottles they drink. Seems as though now you're also judged but what kind of six pack you bring to the Super Bowl party.

Coors Original is an unsophisticated beer as are all pale adjunct lagers. It is cheap and easy to brew as a large batch and pleasing to most because it's sweet with corn adjuncts.

It is however, a pretty good tasting example of the style but it doesn't change the fact that the style is typically the lowest rated of the various styles of beer. It's fine to like it but it is really the Big Bacon Classic of the beer world. Not quite a McDonalds cheeseburger but nowhere near an Alleyburger.

If you're being judged by the beer you drink you should probably find some new friends. If you like the style, you should be open to trying examples from local or other micros rather than worrying about promoting a faux sophistication, judgment or being labeled a hipster for drinking something not from a macro (Can we ban hipster? It means absolutely nothing nowadays.)

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

It's beer, not a 'social justice' compitition. That's why I called out the 'mass-produced' comment. Obviously if you want unique style beers that simply cannot be produced and sold on a large scale, you have to go with craft and microbrews.

That said in the category of 'Crowd Pleasing' beers I'd take Coors Banquet straight up vs. any of the alternatives you mentioned (and I have for the most part tried them). There will be those that disagree with me, and will try and label me 'unsophisticated' for having said opinion. But to that I'm willing to assure them that I have drank enough beer in enough variety in my day to have just as valid opinion as them.

It used to be that being a beer drinker was a refuge from the world of wine drinkers where social status and faux sophistication is all wrapped up in addition to the wine itself in the bottles they drink. Seems as though now you're also judged but what kind of six pack you bring to the Super Bowl party.

Calls people who drink craft beer "beer hipsters", gets defensive when perceives he's being judged.

[CedarMeter]

Has anyone tried it?..Does it taste exactly the same as the American version?

[kipperfan]

I tried Coors Banquet earlier this year down in the States and having heard some hype before drinking it, was thoroughly unimpressed. As far as I'm concerned Pabst Blue Ribbon is a much, much better beer then Banquet if you're looking for a decent American brew you can buy everywhere, not only that but it is also quite a bit cheaper.

And it appears after looking into this a bit, I am not alone.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/306/1276

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/447/1331

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by CedarMeter

Has anyone tried it?..Does it taste exactly the same as the American version?

Yes. Yes.

[polak]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Mmm, gods pee in a can. Love coors banquet. Don't care about the American vs Canadian beer debate either. My tastebuds are fans of this stuff.

What debate? Both countries mass produced beers are absolutely awful.

[pylon]

If anyone wants a surprisingly good beer on the cheap, grab a case of Labbat 50. I thought I was just being a dufus when I grabbed a case to go camping, as it is tradition to grab horrible beer for the campground, but the stuff is awesome, and I didn't realize it was the best selling beer in the country for decades. Seriously try it, you'll be surprised.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by polak

what debate? Both countries mass produced beers are absolutely awful, imo.

fyp



Beer is beer is beer.

The most important thing when picking a beer, is pick one that is cold.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

fyp



Beer is beer is beer.

The most important thing when picking a beer, is pick one that is cold.

Wrong.