{"id":3890,"date":"2012-05-08T05:09:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2012-05-09T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:16:08","slug":"molson-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/08\/molson-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Molson ‘Canadian’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Molson<\/a>
Molson 'Canadian', on Canada Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I do plan on going through the ‘backlog’ of the pen-and-paper Diary<\/em>, still. The Great Rethink<\/a> wasn’t me walking away from that<\/em>\u00a0so much as it’s just me giving myself room for other things as well<\/em>. I’ll probably be a little more fast-and-loose with some of the intervening entries — I do have nearly ten months<\/em>\u00a0to catch up on, after all. Sheesh. (Onwards!)<\/p>\n

It was minutes past midnight, as the basically-anonymous 30th of June transformed into the 1st of July — Canada Day.1<\/sup> I had a few ideas burbling in my head for the much-more-famous Fourth of July and so felt some sort moral obligation to celebrate this national day further North, too. I’m a sucker for Occasion Beers, and national days make excuses for such — Australia Day being my personal favourite, for various reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Molson isn’t any kind of craft darling<\/em>; it’s ultra-massive mainstream golden lager. But I can happily report that it’s not crap<\/em>. Were it smuggled very-slightly back in time and into the ‘Chosen One’ Choosing Session<\/a> we’d had a few days prior, it would comfortably take second place: no real trace of faults<\/em>, but no real substantive charm<\/em>, either.<\/p>\n

\"Molson<\/a>
Molson 'Canadian' thinks it's Spiderman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But what it does<\/em>\u00a0have is the single-greatest health warning \/ mandatory Take It Easy message I think I’ve ever seen: “Great Beer. Great Responsibility.” It’s mere inches away from quoting Spiderman<\/em>, which makes me very happy indeed, giant nerd that I admittedly am. Obviously, the logic of it doesn’t go through, since this is very definitely not<\/em>\u00a0\u201cgreat beer\u201d, but it’s a rather delightful way of putting things, all the same. I’d suggest that other people adopt the phrase, but it turns out that they went and trademarketed it, the hockey-loving bastards. Beer-and-trademarks is becoming a truly depressing ongoing theme — though this is a very<\/em>\u00a0minor instance of it — and doubtless one I’ll have to get back to and give a proper going-over one day.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Diary<\/a>
Diary II entry #118, Molson 'Canadian'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Original Diary entry:<\/strong>\u00a0Molson ‘Canadian’ 30\/6\/11\u00a0\u21923<\/sup> 1\/7\/11 Happy Birthday Canada! I’m a sucker for an Occasion Beer, and had never had this, so here we go. Doesn’t really deserve a reputation as a Budweiser of the North. Is perfectly clean and easy. Would be a very comfortable 2nd place in the above, for example. Only the merest hint of funk on the nose, otherwise a good example of lawnmoweresque blandness-as-a-virtue.<\/p>\n

\n

1:<\/strong> The Blessed Wikipedia assures me that, here in New Zealand and Australia, the first of July is \u2018International Tartan Day<\/a>\u2019, which I hadn’t previously heard of — though it does seem to have a nicely defiant<\/em>\u00a0origin, which I could probably get behind.<\/span>
\n2:<\/strong> It got something of an airing in the write-ups of Invercargill ‘Sa!son’<\/a>, Budweiser<\/a>, and the Stoke beers<\/a>, among other random mentions here and there. (If you were curious \/ couldn’t find the “search” box.)<\/span>
\n3:<\/strong> Good thing I changed post-dating regimes. God knows what I would’ve done with that<\/em>.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do plan on going through the ‘backlog’ of the pen-and-paper Diary, still. The Great Rethink wasn’t me walking away from that\u00a0so much as it’s just me giving myself room for other things as well. I’ll probably be a little more fast-and-loose with some of the intervening entries — I do have nearly ten months\u00a0to … Continue reading Molson ‘Canadian’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,33,9,43],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-canada","tag-lager","tag-2011-06"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":803,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/18\/unibroue-trois-pistoles\/","url_meta":{"origin":3890,"position":0},"title":"Unibroue ‘Trois Pistoles’","author":"Phil","date":"September 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I get mistaken for Canadian, sometimes (I have very idiosyncratic accent -- and no idea why I do). 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