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Favourite Budget beers

View Poll Results: What is your favourite discount/dollar beer?
Lucky
2
15.38%
James Ready
0
0%
Muskoka Lager
1
7.69%
Bohemian
0
0%
Muskoka Lager
0
0%
Carling
8
61.54%
Brava (The beer of summer)
2
15.38%
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Favourite Budget beers

Old Jul 19th 2008, 11:52 pm
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Originally Posted by ireland2canada
I've just found my new 'regular' then. I like their website. It looks rather more clean & civilised than I am used to, but we all have to adapt.
It's horrible. Totally up itself and full of Hooray Henrys. Also staggeringly expensive. Only the Beer Bistro is worse.
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The pictures do give off that impression.
I was joking about 'adapting', I refuse to be dragged up-market. I want an ice cold cider, in a gloomy hovel, with dubious strangers to chat with. Damnit.
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Originally Posted by ireland2canada
The pictures do give off that impression.
I was joking about 'adapting', I refuse to be dragged up-market. I want an ice cold cider, in a gloomy hovel, with dubious strangers to chat with. Damnit.
Yard. Two doors down from the UpItself. A proper pub, the same people are sitting and/or playing darts there as when I first went in (not sure when that was but I was first banned in 1982).
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Old Jul 20th 2008, 7:02 am
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Originally Posted by Mikey B
you say cider to a Canadian and they think hot apple cider drank round a camp fire at the cottage.
We do?! Another cider available in BC is Okanagan Extra Cider


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Old Jul 20th 2008, 9:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
Along with Strongbow and Growers there is also Okanagan cider in B.C. and Big Rock Brewery in Calgary does a reasonably good cider called Rock Creek available in cans and draft in some pubs.

Just recently I found a product from Vancouver called Green Apple cider very much a green apple flavour it was quite interesting.

On Vancouver Island there is Merridale Estate Cidery but their products are available only on Vancouver Island and in the Vancouver area.

If you want a choice in ciders it would appear B.C. is the place to go to.
Only been in BC for 4 weeks and as I drank beer never paid attention do they do Cider on tap out there much or is it like Ontario Liquor store only?
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Can't believe I'm the only one who's voted for Muskoka (even though it's cunningly been placed twice in the poll)!

A buck a bottle plus deposit AND it's "craft brewed" unlike all the others in the list. ("Real" additive free beer for those outside Canada).

Plus it tastes pretty darned good.
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Originally Posted by Mikey B
Only been in BC for 4 weeks and as I drank beer never paid attention do they do Cider on tap out there much or is it like Ontario Liquor store only?
Don't frequent drinking establishments very often so can't really say.

I have had Strongbow on tap in Calgary and just recently had the Big Rock, Rock Creek cider on tap also.

Although most places seem to have Strongbow in bottles for some ridiculous price.
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Imagine a warm, sweaty can of this on a hot summers day...
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Imagine a warm, sweaty can of this on a hot summers day...
That pic really made me laugh i think its only about 2% and totally tasteless !
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Old Jul 23rd 2008, 11:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
Different beers in different provinces.

I think you might be able to get Lucky in B.C. and I've heard of Carling but not as a cheapo discount beer. All the others are possibly Ontario specific.
While out walking last night saw some lads drinking LUCKY beer, here on Vancouver Island.
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Originally Posted by jempee
While out walking last night saw some lads drinking LUCKY beer, here on Vancouver Island.
Yep, my brother in law in Duncan used to drink the stuff by the gallon.
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Old Jul 24th 2008, 12:32 am
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
Yep, my brother in law in Duncan used to drink the stuff by the gallon.
Its the only way to drink it! If you drink it by the bottle sensibly then you taste the stuff!
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What's this bad boy taste like?

http://www.thebeerstore.ca/Beers/bra...ls.asp?id=0154
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