Molson announces merger with Coors

It also means that Canada's two major brewers, which account for nearly nine in 10 bottles of beer sold in this country - will effectively be foreign owned.

Molson and Coors. Swell. To borrow a catchphrase from the competition, if I'd wanted water, I'd have asked for it.

Fortunately, this is why God made Alexander Keith's, Sleeman, and the Upper Canada Brewing Company.

41 posted on 07/22/2004 8:34:58 AM PDT by RansomOttawa

It's a Paulaner beer, kinda dark, like Guinness. My friends in Wisconsin introduced me to it. They started me on the "gateway" beer Hefe-Weisz and then moved me on to Salvator, the harder stuff. I really enjoy its full-bodied flavor. I had some Guinness left over in my fridge and it tasted a little flat after a week of drinking Salvator.

42 posted on 07/22/2004 9:05:01 AM PDT by rabidralph (If you can read this tagline, then stop.)

I worked for coors here in Colorado for over a year and never heard of (any having to take one) or took a polygrah test. Where did you hear this?

43 posted on 07/22/2004 9:14:32 AM PDT by scab4faa ("While you're here, you're a Horse's Ass, once you're gone, you're a Hero, I have never been a hero.)

I refused to buy any of their products after I tasted some. Never been that fond of Molsons either.

44 posted on 07/22/2004 9:16:59 AM PDT by discostu (Gravity is a harsh mistress)

molson is the worst thing to come out of canada.

45 posted on 07/22/2004 9:32:12 AM PDT by freepy smurf (Brought to you by The Frog Council. 'Frog: the other green meat.')

Back around 1980, it came out in congressional hearings that Coors management used polygraph machines as a disciplinary tool to handle "troublesome employees", which I assumed to mean union organizers. They would ask their employees intrusive questions about their sex lives, etc. when hooked up to the machines.

I'm sure they no longer do this. (From a quick google search: "Coors discontinued all employee polygraph testing on August 31, 1986."

[Here] is a link to some more infomation.

On April 5, 1977, 1,472 members of Brewery, Bottling, Can and Allied Industrial Union Local No. 366 walked out of the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado. The purpose for the walkout was not the usual concern about wages, since the average worker made $19,500 for a forty-two hour work-week. The conflict was over human rights: the union felt that Coors was not an equal opportunity employer, that the mandatory polygraph test questions did not relate directly to their jobs, and that members of the Coors family were union busters. In 1977, the Coors Boycott and Strike Support Coalition of Colorado was formed to encourage and support both Coors union workers and union supporters.

46 posted on 07/22/2004 10:44:20 AM PDT by snopercod (What we have lost will not be returned to us.)

Maybe together they can produce a decent brew.

47 posted on 07/22/2004 11:57:21 AM PDT by cruiserman

To: anonymous_user

AHHHH had then all, Alaskan Amber is where it is at.

48 posted on 07/22/2004 1:38:37 PM PDT by RedlegCPT (Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl)

One word response: Yuengling!

49 posted on 07/22/2004 2:25:24 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)

Post #23 - LOL! At the nightclubs here in Green Bay Coors and Coors light are always on sale for $1 after midnight!

Coors beer absolutely sucks...

50 posted on 07/22/2004 2:29:37 PM PDT by ServesURight

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