I found out from my father this morning that Alexander Keith’s is opening a second brewery in BC.
What. The. Fuck.
—Purveyor of beer
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
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I found out from my father this morning that Alexander Keith’s is opening a second brewery in BC.
What. The. Fuck.
—Purveyor of beer
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
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Spread the love, that’s what I say. As long as they don’t fuck around with the taste, who really cares?
Open one in Ontario. I can’t believe I had to pay IMPORT prices for Keith’s when I was there. Booze was pricey enough there as it was.
SOCIALABLE!!! or whatever.
Keith’s is nothing to be proud of. Propellor and Garrison are by far better tasting beers, in my humble opinion. The only people who will buy it in BC will be the visiting Maritimers.
Maybe that is your taste, which is fine. However, there is no discounting the fact that Keith’s is the most popular beer in Nova Scotia. A beer does not have to be specially flavored or dark just to be “good”. That’s based on personal taste, and obviously more Schooners (no pun intended) like Keith’s than either of those two micro brews.
Unfortunately for some the only requirement for a beer to be considered “good” is that is has alcohol, “cool” commercials and that it was the first beer they were introduced to. Have you ever tried any of the other beers I mentioned? People tend to drink beer more out of tradition. There is a cornucopia of great beers out there. Guess I’m just not a traditional kind of gal.
It all tasted like moose piss to me. The only reason I drank beer was for the effect. And the gawd-awful hangover it gave me the next morning.
I have been offered the odd Propeller. At least it tastes like high quality moose piss.
There’s nothing “our” about Keiths, it’s a company that’s in business to sell beer, no matter where it’s made, it’s all about the sales. Doing it this way eliminates shipping, and that means more money in the execs pockets. That’s the bottom line.
Keith’s is garbage anyways, so why should we take credit for that shit? There are far better IPAs out there.
You’ve got it, Bullet.
A corporation has no drive but to make money for those who own it. …no loyalty or any other human tendencies. Has anyone here seen “The Corporation”?
In other news, ‘sociaLAble’ almost made me fall off my chair. Hilarious.
Keith’s, Labatt’s, Moslon’s, Moosehead are all factory beers and taste like it. Give me micro-breweries anytime. Propeller Bitter, MMMMMMMMMMMM.
BRoc: That’s because it’s cheap, widely available, and the easiest thing to order when you’re crocked. “ARGHFLG 2KEEETS!”
And has been for well over 100 years. I do not care what any of you think about your pretentious microbrews (actually, it’s not the microbrews that are pretentious, it’s the righteous supporters who drink it who are pretentious. Kind of like indie music fans or sushi eaters). Just because a lot of people like Keith’s, you think they have no taste. I have tried Propeller, and I hate it. Is there something wrong with that? Better watch out, because if everyone starts drinking Propeller it will get so popular that it will become a dreaded factory beer that you all so dread. That would be a laugh.
For a factory beer, Keith’s is actually pretty good, IMO.
I wouldn’t lump it in with beers like Coors, Bud, Moosehead, etc.
Microbrews are great for quality and variety of taste and some don’t give as bad a hangover either, but I think BRoc is right in that some of the microbrew supporters can be a bit pretentious with their refined taste buds.
For me beer serves one of two purposes, to get me drunk, or to be drank. For the former I prefer Keith’s, for the latter, a microbrew.
I do love a good propeller… but it’s the wheat one for me.
Since the only low carb beer available now is sleemans (tastes quite salty but it was a compromise with the missus, calorically wise) I like a sweeter flavor when I’m lucky enough to obtain one.
My fav has always been moose dry. You get an extra beer’s worth of alcohol out of an 8 pack. Good for boasting during century parties.
rock and roll when are we opening up the kokanee factory in Hali?
let the samsquamch search on the bottle begin…
Who gives a shit if Keiths is opening a brewery in BC? Let them have it. It’s disgusting swill that I wouldn’t even use to kill garden slugs with. I don’t get the obsession people around here have with Keiths anyway. It’s horrible, shitty, lifeless beer that isn’t worth even the deposit on the bottle. Like some other people said, there are a hell of lot better local brews than that crap.
Keith’s is pretty gross. But so is any beer that is made of anything besides hops, barley, and water. I wish they’d all fuck off their blueberry etc etc flavoured beers.
Wheat being the exception though. Wheat beers on a summer day are ok.
Keiths does make a mighty fine paint remover.
It’s been a friggin long time since Keith’s could be considered Nova Scotian. It’s owned by Labatt’s whose parent company is Anheuser-Busch InBev, which is headquartered in Belgium.
All the major labels taste the same anyways: Once when I worked in the bars, we did a “Pepsi Challenge” with Keith’s, Blue, and Budweiser, and only 1 out of about 12 people who tried was able to identify all 3. And statistically speaking, that should happen anyway by pure chance.
Wow, gotta say with regards to last night….
those who like it throw up a lot.
Keith’s is garbage. It’s nothing more than animal feed.
Broc. Keith’s is the biggest fraud in teh Canadian marketplace. It’s not even close to an IPA. If it’s been this way for over 100 years, then good old Alexander Keith was a lying douche, nad the people of Nova Scotia are just suckers for anything theyt hink might be local. It’s an alcohol delivery system, nothing more htan animal feed. Gross.
Can’t we all just drink what we like and STFU! I know you don’t like Keith’s guys, but really, give it a fucking rest with the outlandish criticizing. Really, now beer expert, a fucking fraud. Get over it please. What a pathetic waste of bitching.
Hey BRoc, have Keith’s enter that fraud of an IPA in a beer competition in the IPA category. It will score zero. That’s becuase it’s not an IPA. It’s crap made from as little hops and barley as possible. Know your sh!t before you whine.
People can enjoy whatever they want. Its just hard to enjoy keith’s after years of drinking microbeers and others of microbeer quality.
And yep, for beer snobs, keiths is not an IPA.
It’s the equivalent of going to the Port of Wines to get a nice Malbec, taking it home and pouring a glass of what tastes like Wildberry Cooler. A straight out fraud. It should be illegal.
LMAO! Oh my god! Here’s the fucking thing. I don’t give a flying fuck whether it is really a IPA or not. Illegal, beer expert? Now you’re losing it. You’ve turned this bitch into a pointless diatribe to justify your pretentious taste in beer. (see my previous post).
Your first post was bad enough to make anybody with taste gag. The rest were just uneducated. Swillers and boozehounds don’t care about anything, other than getting wasted. The only person here who has lost it is you.
If the can says IPA, PEOPLE FUCKING WELL EXPECT THE CONTENTS OF THE GOD-DAMN CONTAINER TO CONTAIN IPA!!!
Keith’s is just a poor qaulity ‘beer’ for people with bad taste.
Who the fuck needs to be “educated” to drink beer. Taste is subjective anyway. “beer expert” you once again prove my point from above. You’re nothing but a pretentious beer snob.
No. I’m not a snob. I expect qaulity beer for the outrageous price. I don’t want this garbage ‘IPA’ to be pandered across the country as an example of maritime pride. A person looking for a good tasting IPA would pour this out. Taste is subjective, but crap is crap. Beer made with %40 corn syrup is crap. The only point you make clear is that you prefer animal feed to get wasted.
I’m getting tired of this. Let’s just agree that I like to drink beer to get drunk and you like beer to enjoy the taste. Funny thing is for the most part, I drink red wine and when I do drink beer, I find myself drinking Sleeman’s lately.
There’s no legal requirement for an IPA to be an actual IPA. Any beer snob already knows keith’s rep, whether its already in their market or not, so chill the fuck out.
Its like getting uptight over Tim Horton’s ‘coffee’.
heh, one time I decided to cheap out and tried kokanee, just for kicks. Now there’s a beer that needs a serious barley infusion.
There should be a legal requirement. It makes us look like idiots, marketing that crap the way they do. What is the point behind lying to your consumers? And I have no qualms about blasting anybody over the topic, the rewery in particular. At lest Tim Horton’s is made with the ingredients you would find in a cup of coffee. Massive amounts of corn syrup do not belong in beer. I constatnly read about people trying this beer for the first time, and saying WTF!? So you don’t have to be a beer ‘snob’ to understand what a good beer should be, and what it shouldn’t. That’s just ridiculous stereotyping.
Funny, despite all of your arguments, Keith’s is the #1 selling specialty beer in Canada right now. I understand your arguments, beer expert, however do you really think that the people who drink beer for the taste are going to buy Keith’s? It’s not marketed as a premium beer so the beer drinkers who are looking for an authentic IPA are probably not going to buy it anyway. Let it slide, and let us drink our Keith’s in peace, because frankly, we don’t give a fuck.
Laughable really – I’m with BRoc in saying the the beer expert is nothing but a beer snob.
The Websters Dictionary of Douchebags states that a beer snob is “one who knows slightly more than the average bear about beer and needs to shout it out at the top of his/her lungs. Also, takes personal offence to the fact that 95% of Canadian beer drinkers enjoy what he/she would call tasteless mass produced piss. Also, see douchebag”
Stop whining…..really. You can’t knock the quality of the Keiths, Bud, Blue or whatever. The quality is impeccable, and the consistency (which is most important) is such that cannot be rivalled by the micros. Not knocking microbreweries, but they cannot match the consistency of a big brewer. So as BRoc has been saying all along…..taste preference is different that poor quality
Broc:
Keith’s PAYS to have their beer sold on draft. Which is actually illegal. If you don’t give a fuck, why do keep coming back here to argue?
Brau22
Cute, but predictable rant. Quality? rotflmao. I don’t take offense to the fact that people enjoy animal feed to get wasted. But I have no problem tuning you clowns up in regards to what the word quality means. Consistently making crap is now deemed important? Impeccable? What a joke.
Regardless of taste, a quality beer does not include %40 corn syrup. So they do produce poor quality beer in masse. Sweet…
Who gives a fucking shit about quality, were not idiots, we realize spending low amounts of money on a beer to get “drunk” with, may not be a fucking good quality beer. FUCK, If we had money diarrhea then maybe we could drink “quality” beers on a regular basis. Now for the love of God get over yourself
P.S If I want to drink a couple of beers that have a nice taste…awesome, I’ll drink a “good quality beer” but what fucking differences is it going to make once your hammered and can’t taste the difference between the two….so why spend more money to buy better beer
Funny thing, beer expert — I was walking through Propeller once and I could have sworn I saw 5 gallon pails of honey. Maybe that is swill too? As for paying to be on draft, Molsons pays even more. Don’t blame them, blame the greedy bar owners who demand the cash and get them into a bidding war.
Most of the 19-30 crowd don’t order a beer to savor the fine imported hops and the particular strain of barley used. They want to pour it down their gullets as fast as they can in order to get shitfaced. The image that the label conveys is much more important than what is inside the bottle. It’s all about the marketing, not the liquid.
The whole point of the OP was InBev Cranking out more corporate goo out west. Craft brewing is the largest growing sector of beer sales. Why keep cranking out shit? Why? It’s an embarassment to NS to be marketing this trash with pride. You readily admit you drink shit to get wasted, and I’m the one with problems? Do you mean get over myself and sink to your wonderful level of binge drinking?
Why should I respect a fraud of a ‘beer’, when the only purpose of the beer is an alcohol delivery system to get teenage mongoloids wasted?
Hey Keith, did you ever think certain beers are traditionally made with small amounts of Honey? Or maybe they were doing a trial batch of Mead? All you know is that you saw some honey. I know for a fact tath Olands beer is 30-40% corn syrup. Big fucking difference.
They all bribe, and they are all to blame. Corporate cocksuckers selling swill as a quality product.
Just becuase it’s about the alcohol, doesn’t make it right, doesn’t mean it’s quality, and doesn’t mean it should be pushing quality beers out of the bars by paying bribes to the owners.
Beer Expert: I don’t know anything about beer, and I admit that. My point wasn’t to discard your knowledge base on the subject, my point was to point out my disapproval of you writing with an attitude that implies that those who drink Keith’s are beneath you. Saying that I’m promoting “binge drinking” is a little farfetched, especially when you have implied several times through out this discussion that YOU are drinking beer to get drunk..i.e: “The only point you make clear is that you prefer animal feed to get wasted.” And “I don’t take offense to the fact that people enjoy animal feed to get wasted”. Nobody was saying anything at that time about drinking to get wasted. The point I was trying to make in my little ramble was a rebuttal to you saying “I have no problems tuning you clown up in regards to what the word quality means…” THAT is what I meant by we(although I can’t really speak for others), are not idiots. I might not know a lot about beer, but it doesn’t take a prestige self pronounced “beer expert” to tell me what is and isn’t quality.
‘especially when you have implied several times through out this discussion that YOU are drinking beer to get drunk’
Better re-think that, because I certainly have not said that anywhere.
It was the previous posters who have said they just want to get drunk. Those people are beneath me.
Keith’s et al = McDonald’s et al. Consistant low quality products that are highly marketed and and fill a need with no expectations. Chug beers or scarf down Big Macs. Both will make you sick but after a while who cares. LOL.
LOL “applause for Bro”. Beer: I didn’t say that you had SAID that I said that rather that you implied it. Your first implication that was quoted was (as far as I can tell) an argument directed at Broc, and as far as I can tell, he didn’t mention anything about drinking beer to get drunk. So forgive me, your implication might not have been made towards yourself getting drunk (who I’m sure never has gotten drunk) maybe it was an implication of you bestowing that implication onto Broc. However, I truly feel sorry that you would hold anyone “beneath you”. I hope that I would never do that to someone, even if I didn’t like their personality, I would still hold them as my equal and although I’m far from perfect, hope that I would respect them fully. Everyone has different perspectives and life lessons that if your open up to listening to, can offer some great life lessons. I know that I have some great qualities, as well as everyone else and I’m really sorry that your missing out on them because, although I disagree with where your coming from right now, I would never do that to you.
hey..wait a sec bro…catalog much?
Oh, I’ve gotten good and drunk in my days. Drank Keith’s, Blue, and all the other slop in my younger and dumber days. It angers me that these multinationals were allowed to run the show and market their garbage with no other options for too many years. No more.
And if your goal for beer is to drink the cheapest shit possible to get wasted, I must say you are below me. Why not go all the way and drink Lysol…
For the love of god…i never said that, and I barely even drink to be honest. However when I go out with friends to have some beers, kieth’s ( although carlsbeirg is pretty good too) is one of the better “crappy” beers to choose from and my budget tends to only allow for “crappy” beers. And when you go out with friends to drink alcohol, at some point in time during the night chances are you are going to have at least a buzz…that doesn’t mean it’s a goal, but you wouldn’t be going out and buying a case of beer to drink with friends if you had the goal of staying sober. But it also doesn’t mean your going out with the goal of funneling back some Colt 45 as fast as possible so that you can be drunk for half an hour and then puke your face up for the rest of the night. The fact that It angers you “that these multinationals were allowed to run the show and market their garbage with no other options for too many years” is totally reasonable..I’m not informed on beer, but if I was I’m sure I would be angered too…
I wasn’t referring to you, it was the above poster who mentioned he likes to drink cheap liquor to get wasted.
LOL I got a good chuckle from that comment