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OILFIELDTRASH said:
The guy that you pass and say to your wife "You know I was in good shape like that at one time." The wife then proceeds to reach over and pat your beer belly.

Yes I'm one of the those (the former).
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I meant delusional and ignorant but whatever floats your boat 🙂
 
Train said:
Last time I saw what it cost to get a keg in Canada, I was like DAFUUUUUUQ?
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If beer were too cheap, there would be a plague of youth binge drinking and alcoholism. At least that's the official government line. Seriously. Government makes an obscene amount of profit from it, plus all the taxes on liquor. Thankfully there's a pretty good craft brewery close to my work. Still pay all the taxes but at least they get to keep the profit.
 
Is there any way to do duty free between Canada and the States or Mexico? I just bought a couple cases of beer last month for 56 cents a beer and it was good beer. Not great beer but a good local European brew. It's the taxes that make it super expensive.
 
dabuddha said:
Oh. You're one of those.
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To be fair, there are quite a few here that go into a thread knowing what it is about just to say they don't like it. I believe it is called thread crapping, and in the garage there are threads crapping the whole forum or just looking for attention.

LOL at all beer drinkers having a beer belly, though.

mmntech said:
If beer were too cheap, there would be a plague of youth binge drinking and alcoholism. At least that's the official government line. Seriously. Government makes an obscene amount of profit from it, plus all the taxes on liquor. Thankfully there's a pretty good craft brewery close to my work. Still pay all the taxes but at least they get to keep the profit.
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Well, not to get all tinfoil-y, but I think part of the reason beer is so cheap here is that they don't really want people thinking too critically. It certainly explains NASCAR. It is a clash between moldy religious liquor laws, and cheap alcohol to keep the populace drunk.

Not sure how much your government takes in from fining DUI/DWIs, but it has to be a huge cash cow for many states here. (pulled from my ass, not sure those statistics would even be available)
 
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mmntech said:
If beer were too cheap, there would be a plague of youth binge drinking and alcoholism. At least that's the official government line. Seriously. Government makes an obscene amount of profit from it, plus all the taxes on liquor. Thankfully there's a pretty good craft brewery close to my work. Still pay all the taxes but at least they get to keep the profit.
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I'm curious, does bootlegging exist in Canada at all? Seems like there is a ripe market for getcha-drunk type products to be sold without taxes.

I know moonshining is still a thing in the USA. Even though in the most of same places you can get moonshine, you can also get cheap and powerful liquor easily and legally (not to mention the legal stuff is safer).

I feel as though American moonshining exists more as a tradition, and an exercising of rebelliousness.
 
randomrogue said:
We had this discussion last year and the only reasonable explanation someone gave me was because of prohibition and people getting used to skunky water beer. I can't remember the exact logic.
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not at all. PBR, like Budweiser, was actually a fantastic beer long before prohibition. Remember that these were beers originally designed by ~Bavarian immigrants.

prohibition certainly killed most of the breweries in this country (they were all over the place--far more than we have today), and only places like AB survived because they had a unique technology--refrigerated train cars--and other products that they could survive on.

These beers became shit during the Depression when they got back to making beer but grain was scarce. They reconfigured the recipe--watered it down, as you say--in order to turn a profit at a time when people had very little money to spend.

PBR had a bock-type beer that was available up until the 70s during the spring, or so I've heard. I hear that it was "tasty." 😀
 
The only beer I've ever enjoyed at the CostCo here is the Sprecher Abbey Trippel which is roughly 50 times the cost for PBR that NS1 paid.
 
torpid said:
The only beer I've ever enjoyed at the CostCo here is the Sprecher Abbey Trippel which is roughly 50 times the cost for PBR that NS1 paid.
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Sprecher makes the best goddamn root beer. the cream soda sucks, but that root beer omfg.
 
slightlyhuman said:
lol @ beer snobs. last i checked it'll get you drunk.

why else would any one drink alcohol?!
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I stopped drinking to get drunk a long time ago. I drink because it tastes good, or at least it can if you buy the right stuff.

KT
 
Ns1 said:
I enjoy a $1.69 24oz PBR a lot more than I enjoy a $4 12oz Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA
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Agreed on that, but only because I can't stand IPAs. I've been heavily into craft beer for a while now and I can't stand ANY IPAs.

Also, as awesome as craft beer is, there's nothing wrong with getting a case of Lion's Head or PBR for $14 and knocking a few back with some buddies now and again.

EDIT: $1 PBR pounders at the bar on Saturday is win. 😉
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
The guy that you pass and say to your wife "You know I was in good shape like that at one time." The wife then proceeds to reach over and pat your beer belly.

Yes I'm one of the those (the former).
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I enjoy beer everyday, and I don't have a gut.

Sounds like you just suck.
 
i met the one of the head brewmasters of PBR while i was in japan. he was in charge of setting up factories in china for the chinese market. he told me that some special versions of PBR sells roughly for $40USD for a 750ML bottle!
 
Ns1 said:
exactly. at 50c/can PBR is hard as hell to beat. A cube of Bud Light runs ~66c/can.


I enjoy a $1.69 24oz PBR a lot more than I enjoy a $4 12oz Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA
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Get the fuck out of here.

PBR compared to DFH90min? Fail.

To each his own, but fuck off with comparing incredible IPAs to swill.
 
TheInternet1980 said:
Get the fuck out of here.

PBR compared to DFH90min? Fail.

To each his own, but fuck off with comparing incredible IPAs to swill.
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yeah that's what you fuckers on this board told me. Imagine my surprise when that first taste of DFH90 tasted like bitter taint sweat.
 
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