Great Canadian beers

[jaymack]

Alrighty then

http://ca.askmen.com/toys/top_10_300/30 ... _list.html

[lister]

From the comments on the article:

First, I’d like to thank you guys for posting. Second, I can see that you’re as passionate about your hops as I am. Like you, I enjoy coming home from a long day and cracking open a flavourful brew, which is usually not a product that’s available nationwide (I’m partial to Belle Gueule at the moment). However, I’d like to direct your attention to this article's introduction; it clearly states that these are the top 10 Canadian beers that have achieved classic status and are as much a part of our national identity as maple syrup and beaver dams. That said, we've run several articles in the past that discuss the micros you're eagerly pointing out as being omitted from this list: "Canadian Beers You Didn’t Know"; "Top 10 Canadian Microbreweries"; "Quebec Microbrewery Tour"; "Ontario Microbrewery Tour."

Shawn Loeffler
Editor
AskMen.com

[Bobsy]

Buried for inaccuracy, and for the idea that something is classic if its a national brand from one of the mega-established macros. Ooh, and also that only one of these beers is actually made by an independent Canadian brewery:

10: Labatt (Inbev)
9: Molson (MolsonCoors)
8: Labatt (Inbev)
7: Unibroue (Saporro)
6: Sleeman (Saporro)
5: Labatt (Inbev)
4: Moosehead
3: Molson (MolsonCoors)
2: Molson (MolsonCoors)
1: Labatt (Inbev)

[jaymack]

[quote="lister"]From the comments on the article:

However, I’d like to direct your attention to this article's introduction; it clearly states that these are the top 10 Canadian beers that have achieved classic status and are as much a part of our national identity as maple syrup and beaver dams.


What it actually says is: "but intangible factors like the beer’s connection to our national identity (or in one case, lack of an identity) and its historical lineage might elevate some beers from great to classic."

Is it me, or just because it has historical lineage shouldn't by default make it "classic".
Brian Mulroney has historical lineage as a past Prime Minister... he's far from a classical PM

[Tapsucker]

Thanks, I needed a good laugh

Seriously, we should support this perspective on 'beer' any chance we get.
The less people that get turned on to good ingredients, the less pressure on already scarce resources like hopps, barley etc.
In other words, more beer for us while the hosers swill soda pop!

[The_Jester]

The more hosers we can get swilling good beer, the more good beer customers we are creating! More demand, hopefully, would lead to more supply.

Incidentally, the author lost me in the introduction, when he called The Netherlands a "puritanical nation." Five centimetres to the right is a picture of a guy tugging on a spliff, with the caption: "Dutch Cannabis Cafes"!

[shintriad]

This man wouldn't know a hop if it hopped up and bit him on the ass.

This may be the worst, most unimaginative list of beers I've ever seen. He may as well have called it "The Only Ten 'Canadian' Beers You Can Purchase at Your Local Corporate-Owned Pseudo-Pub."

Unbelievable.

From the comments on the article:

First, I’d like to thank you guys for posting. Second, I can see that you’re as passionate about your hops as I am. Like you, I enjoy coming home from a long day and cracking open a flavourful brew, which is usually not a product that’s available nationwide (I’m partial to Belle Gueule at the moment). However, I’d like to direct your attention to this article's introduction; it clearly states that these are the top 10 Canadian beers that have achieved classic status and are as much a part of our national identity as maple syrup and beaver dams. That said, we've run several articles in the past that discuss the micros you're eagerly pointing out as being omitted from this list: "Canadian Beers You Didn’t Know"; "Top 10 Canadian Microbreweries"; "Quebec Microbrewery Tour"; "Ontario Microbrewery Tour."

Shawn Loeffler
Editor
AskMen.com

[Belgian]

I'm not angry about this, the mass-media is completely retarded about many things. Call it the Starbucks effect - people literally need to be TOLD what is good coffee, good beer, etc.

That's the ONLY way to sustain a commodity-dominant marketplace. A commodity is something of extremely low intrinsic worth that has an almost purely imaginary value, & sold at full price. Real beer and great coffee are not efficient in this marketing model because these goods of high intrinsic worth cost more and are more difficult to source consistently.

Has it ever been otherwise?

Just my opinion here folks.

[Rob Creighton]

Have to agree with Belgian though it is interesting that 8 of the 10 'classics' are undefinable in style other than they have been dumbed down so far that they cannot be distinguished from one another during blind tastings. In essence, they are all, ale and lagers combined, high gravity pap that is defined only by it's label and ad campaign, not by it's flavour or ingredients

[Illuminatus]

Have to agree with Belgian though it is interesting that 8 of the 10 'classics' are undefinable in style other than they have been dumbed down so far that they cannot be distinguished from one another during blind tastings. In essence, they are all, ale and lagers combined, high gravity pap that is defined only by it's label and ad campaign, not by it's flavour or ingredients

I'm curious what you consider the two definable beers to be - I only noted Fin du Monde.

[GregClow]

Have to agree with Belgian though it is interesting that 8 of the 10 'classics' are undefinable in style other than they have been dumbed down so far that they cannot be distinguished from one another during blind tastings. In essence, they are all, ale and lagers combined, high gravity pap that is defined only by it's label and ad campaign, not by it's flavour or ingredients

I'm curious what you consider the two definable beers to be - I only noted Fin du Monde.

I would guess that Rob meant Sleeman Honey Brown to be the other. Not a great beer, but definitely easy to distinguish from the other 8.

[Illuminatus]

Have to agree with Belgian though it is interesting that 8 of the 10 'classics' are undefinable in style other than they have been dumbed down so far that they cannot be distinguished from one another during blind tastings. In essence, they are all, ale and lagers combined, high gravity pap that is defined only by it's label and ad campaign, not by it's flavour or ingredients

I'm curious what you consider the two definable beers to be - I only noted Fin du Monde.

I would guess that Rob meant Sleeman Honey Brown to be the other. Not a great beer, but definitely easy to distinguish from the other 8.

That makes sense. My bad.

[markaberrant]

It also looks like they stopped posting comments. I submitted mine on Tuesday, but they never appeared.

[Magni]

An interesting analysis of the beer in Canada, albeit horribly inaccurate (minus the history, of course). Oh well, we'll just have to accept that the masses like the rubbish that they are served in every bar and beer store nationwide.

[Belgian]

It also looks like they stopped posting comments. I submitted mine on Tuesday, but they never appeared.

Censorship.


CRAFT beer link (or what AskMen thinks is Craft Beer):

ca.askmen.com/toys/top_10_250/266_top_10_list.html

A few good ones on the list., yes...

But TWO Amsterdam breweries? (They now OWN Kawartha, who still make a Raspberry that is ironically inferior to Amsterdam's own Framboise.) Okay, Amsterdam makes one nice beer, they don't get TWO 'top ten' places in any list of mine, no offense.

Be great if they did Top 5 regional micros, in EACH significant region, instead of just covering the products with the best national distribution. That's more the point isn't it? Beer made here?