Back before "shock and awe" and Governor Arnie, when things were really dire here -- oh wait, it still is! -- Madeline and I would joke around about moving to Canada. (A good friend of mine moved to eastern rural India last year "to get away from Bush's America.") After all, Canada has a great health system, the biggest mall on the American continent (with more submarines -- inside the mall! -- than the entire Canadian Navy, supposedly), some of the funniest people in the world (Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Mike Myers, Alan Zweig), and the greatest thing to come out of the rather dismal city of Toronto, with David Cronenberg a distant second -- what's not to love?
But then there's Molson.
Beer: Molson Canadian Lager.
Brewery: Molson.
Appearance: Golden yellow-red.
Aroma: Rubbery and unpleasant.
Flavor: A little unbalanced, with a lingering bitter aftertaste.
Summary: Small head, no lacing. I'm supposing this is the Canadian counterpart to an American macrobrew, though (see above) I had higher hopes for it. If you don't drink and watch (not play) hockey at the same time there's little point to drinking this ever again. (Labatt's Blue, on the other hand, was a classic grad student drink -- and that at least counts for something, in the same way that David reminds me that Bud Light is Robert Pollard's favorite beer.)
Rating: * (1 star).