Weird Wednesday: Strange Brew
I like beer.
As a Canadian, it is a right of passage when you are a teenager to find that one guy to buy you a case of beer to celebrate your friend’s parents going away. The problem is two-fold. One, he will overcharge you, and two he will proceed to take at least four bottles from the case as a surcharge, or what the kids today call a tariff. And we couldn’t be picky about the brand we received. You ask for beer, you get beer.
What was the first brands we drank? Probably one of these:
Ahhh, the stubby bottle. I miss those little guys.
After a few years of underage drinking, we fell under the spell of wanting to be the cool beer drinkers and being brand loyal, so our beer of choice became a Western Canadian brew:
In 1985 the two major breweries in Canada, Molson and Labatt’s, when on strike, forcing underage drinkers to resort to American beer. Here’s a history lesson from the show SCTV:
Then something happened that changed everything: Crocodile Dundee. Because of that movie we realized that there were other beers out there, all over the world and it became fashionable to drink imported beer, not counting US brands.
Not to ignore the title of this post, here is a true Canadian classic:
That concludes this week’s beer journey. Maybe another next week.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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