Canuck Brew! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dow Beer

Dow was one of the most popular beers in Quebec, with breweries in Montreal and Quebec City. In 1966 sixteen beer drinkers died mysteriously, the only common factor was: They all drank Dow beer. The deaths were eventually linked back to the salts that Dow brewery had put in its beer to preserve a foam head on the brew. The company recalled all the beer that was treated with the deadly salts, but Dow ended up closing as you couldn't give the stuff away after that!

Brasserie Grain D'Orge is a actual beer in France. And Agony Beer? It probably was, but agony is a Funtriv editor, who's name just happened to fit in with this question.. :)

Answer: Keltic Brewing Company

As far as I know the other 'breweries' don't exist but in my fertile mind. I had fun 'designing' them! Keltic is a Micro/Pub Brewery that is based in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, It's Irish Red Ale might remind you of an English ale, and Big John is supposedly named after their brew master. Blueberry Beer? it's available only in the summertime, and is slightly purplish...enough said as I still get queasy looking at 'green' beer on St. Paddy's day! Keltic? As far as I can tell by my dictionary, it's just another variant of spelling or pronounciation, Celtic, as in the NBA Boston Celtics, or Glasgow Celtics. ( the arguement does rage on though..)

Answer: Steam Whistle

Well, the question gives you most of the pertinent information, I'll tell my story part now. Seeing that I just had a box of Steam Whistle Beer. (Burp) Its rather expensive but a nice pilsner beer. (over $40 dollars for a '24'..It comes in a green bottle which makes us old timers cringe, because back in the good old days you would probably get one green bottle mixed in with browns, when you bought your case of quart beers. Green bottles didn't react well to sunlight, so it could taste 'skunky'. If you were offered a greenie back then, it wasn't necessarily because we liked you, it was a 'case' of get rid of the bloody green bottle. I must say Steam Whistle has relieved me of those old fears, I would recommend it! ( of course I kept it in a closed ice chest.)

Answer: Rolling Rock

Ok in that question was my wee attempt at Newfoundland slang. If I did it like a real newfie would most of you couldn't understand it. A language unto itself from the good folks on the Rock ( Newfoundland).And they look after you right proper there, you never go hungry! The accent/slang grows on you after a few beers or some screech, and while you will never master it, you can fool some of the folks back in oh, say Toronto. (Got de heaves on da ferry boat to The Rock by? Shockin' dat is, shockin b'y roughly translates into Got a upset stomach on the ferry to Newfoundland eh? That's shocking, eh? ) The beer? Lard thunderin' I does go on! Rolling Rock is a American beer ( in a green bottle) and it's actually not bad. Blue Star is now owned by Labatts, Black Horse is now made by Molsons and Eric's is from Quidi Vidi Brewery, a local non Molson or Labatt's product..yet...The ferry ride to Newfoundland is about a 6 hour trip.

Its about $80 bucks for a car, $30 for a person on foot, so if you are at the terminal in North Sydney, it's not a problem getting a ride by offering someone $20 dollars or so. Important Information! DON'T drink any booze while on the ferry! Trust me! The ship goes up and down..up and down....over the waves...up and down...Alcohol seems to increase this nauseating effect...

Answer: Husky Tower

It's a little over 600 feet tall, smaller than the CN tower in Toronto. Built first though, in the late 60's. I visit the revolving restaurant on my last day in town. You can see for miles in the daytime, it was how I would pick my next destination. Shall I go east to Halifax or west to Vancouver? North or South? When the beer was finished whatever direction the revolving restaurant and I was facing would be which way I went next morning.

The tower was originally named the Husky Tower after the Husky Oil Company.

In the 1970' s it was renamed the Calgary Tower. ( which most people were calling it anyway) The Beer label? It's got a train, bunnies, mountains, a old bi wing airplane and a car from, and I'm guessing, around 1920.(and some Native Canadians wondering what's going on.) The bunnies? Rumour had it now and then they would change the number of little white rabbits on the label. I guess to see if you were paying attention. So most everyone that drank this stuff looked for the white rabbits. Was there 2? 3? more? After a few beers no one could agree on a exact count anyway. I always wondered if that was true about the bunnies or just a urban legend.

Answer: make love

It must be a very cold beer on a very hot day, but its true! 40% said they would rather have a beer on the east coast, than making love. The rest of Canada didn't pick the beer. Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky skated by enviromentalist David Suzuki as the man people would like to down a beer with in the same survey. Now as to the answers, A job? Sadly good paying jobs are far and few between down home. And don't get me started on CBC Radio 1. And a beer IS probably perferable to doing another one of my quizzes, but the survey didn't ask that. Don't ask me why 40% picked beer, and I was born and raised in New Brunswick. Just pass me a cold one would ya?

Answer: Big Rock Brewery

Big Rock Breweries started in 1986 by Ed McNally. He named it Big Rock because he was impressed ( who isn't?) with the Big Rock that is in the fields outside of Okotoks, Alberta. They are rocks left over from melting glaciers. The Big Rock is about 18,000 tons.

The Big Rock beers are ( reading label) natural and unpasteurized, and contain no additives or preservatives, so you can drink and be healthy! Oh yes, Warthog, Jack Rabbit, and Grasshopper are actual names of their beers. Mr. McNally seems to have this thing for animals, his logo on the bottle caps is a rooster..I would pick McNallys Extra, to drink because of it's 7% alcohol content. Did Alberta Springs fool ya? Don't feel bad, it's a good Alberta rye whiskey!

Answer: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

I ended up there with only a light weight summer jacket and no bug repellent. The brewery is located in Whitehorse,(it's also the capital of Yukon Territory) and makes such beer products as Chilkoot, Yukon Gold ( I thought that was a type of potato) Lead Dog and Discovery Ale.

Heading to the Yukon? Take a sweater. In winter take a Arctic combat jacket. Trust me! But it's sure a beautiful place to visit! ( the fishing is awesome) Iqaluit, is the capital of Nunavut Territory. The comment about the fir tree and the raven? The fir is the provincial tree and the raven, if you did my 'birds" quiz, would tell you it's the official bird of the Yukon!

Answer: a new bank

William Molson established the Molson or Molson's Bank. They even issued their own banknotes! Wow, you get to make money off the sales of the beer, put it in your own bank, and print your own money. Pure genius. When it merged with the bank of Montreal in the 1920's, the Molson family had over 125 bank branches. I remember seeing a stately old building in Toronto with Molson's Bank still proudly carved over it's front door.

As for they genuine Canadian beer taste? it's still there but after the merger with Coors, it's official name on the New York Stock Exchange is now the Molson Coors Brewing Company, it's just not quite so "Canadian" eh? (Molson, Manitoba actually exists, just east of Winnipeg!)

Answer: True

It's true! Ontario and British Columbia produce ice wines. Grapes are left on the vine well into the winter season. The grapes are picked in the winter months, by very cold grape pickers with frozen fingers. Most of the wine goes to the far east where a bottle goes for $300 dollars and up! It's around $50 here. By comparison a normal bottle of beer is about $1.30. ( a ice wine bottle is 375 ml, a normal beer bottle is 341 ml size) I never had any icewine (and at that price I probably never will) And tying vines is about as mind numbing as priming (picking) tobacco.

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